With the auction now over and the start of IPL 2018 only 10 days away, Cricfooty analyses the best, strongest and probable playing XI of each of the eight franchises. , Kings XI Punjab (KXIP), Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR), Mumbai Indians (MI), Rajasthan Royals (RR), Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB), and Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH).
Probable Chennai Super Kings (CSK) playing XI
1 MS Dhoni (C & WK), 2 Murali Vijay, 3 Faf du Plessis (overseas), 4 Suresh Raina, 5 Dwayne Bravo (overseas), 6 Kedar Jadhav, 7 Ravindra Jadeja, 8 Harbhajan Singh, 9 Mark Wood (overseas), 10 Shardul Thakur, 11 Imran Tahir (overseas)
Probable Delhi Daredevils (DD) playing XI
1 Gautam Gambhir, 2 Colin Munro (overseas), 3 Shreyas Iyer, 4 Rishabh Pant (WK), 5 Glenn Maxwell (overseas), 6 Manjot Kalra, 7 Vijay Shankar, 8 Kagiso Rabada (overseas), 9 Trent Boult (overseas), 10 Mohammed Shami, 11 Amit Mishra
Probable Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) playing XI
1 Ravichandran Ashwin (C), 2 Lokesh Rahul, 3 Chris Gayle/Aaron Finch (overseas), 4 Yuvraj Singh, 5 David Miller (overseas), 6 Manoj Tiwary, 7 Marcus Stoinis (overseas), 8 Axar Patel, 9 Andrew Tye (overseas), 10 Mohit Sharma, 11 Barinder Sran
Probable Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) playing XI
1 Chris Lynn (possibly injured, overseas), 2 Shubman Gill, 3 Robin Uthappa (WK), 4 Rinku Singh, 5 Nitish Rana, 6 Andre Russell (overseas), 7 Sunil Narine (overseas), 8 Kuldeep Yadav, 9 Mitchell Starc (overseas), 10 Kamlesh Nagarkoti, 11 Shivam Mavi
Probable Mumbai Indians (MI) playing XI
1 Rohit Sharma (C), 2 Evin Lewis (overseas), 3 Saurabh Tiwary, 4 Suryakumar Yadav, 5 Ishan Kishan (WK), 6 Kieron Pollard (overseas), 7 Hardik Pandya, 8 Krunal Pandya, 9 Akila Dananjaya (overseas), 10 Jasprit Bumrah, 11 Patrick Cummins (overseas)
Probable Rajasthan Royals (RR) playing XI
1 Ajinkya Rahane (c), 2 D’Arcy Short (overseas), 3 Rahul Tripathi, 4 Sanju Samson, 5 Jos Buttler (WK, overseas), 6 Ben Stokes (overseas), 7 Jatin Saxena, 8 Dhawal Kulkarni, 9 Jaydev Unadkat, 10 Zahir Khan (overseas), 11 Anureet Singh
Probable Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) playing XI
1 Virat Kohli (C), 2 Parthiv Patel (WK), 3 Brendon McCullum (overseas), 4 AB de Villiers (overseas), 5 Sarfraz Khan, 6 Mandeep Singh, 7 Colin de Grandhomme (overseas), 8 Pawan Negi, 9 Yuzvendra Chahal, 10 Nathan Coulter-Nile (overseas), 11 Umesh Yadav
Probable Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) playing XI
1 Kane Williamson (C, overseas), 2 Shikhar Dhawan, 3 Manish Pandey, 4 Ricky Bhui, 5 Wriddhiman Saha (WK), 6 Deepak Hooda, 7 Shakib Al Hasan (overseas), 8 Chris Jordan (overseas), 9 Bhuvneshwar Kumar, 10 Sandeep Sharma, 11 Rashid Khan