After the completion of IPL 2025 mega auction, the squads of all 10 franchises are ready. While most of the eyes were on players like Rishabh Pant and Shreyas Iyer, who broke all the old records of expensive players, there were some players too, whom every team has given themselves an edge by buying at low prices. The squad is ready but now everyone is trying to find out which team’s playing eleven can be the strongest and which has the potential to win the IPL title in the next season. The playing eleven that has been prepared after some hard work seems to indicate that only the most successful teams of the last season are still strong.
Who is strong, who is weak?
The probable playing 11 of IPL 2024 winner Kolkata Knight Riders and finalist Sunrisers Hyderabad still seems ahead of the rest. At the same time, 5-time champion Chennai Super Kings also bought those players who can guarantee them winning all 7 matches at their home ground Chepauk. If we talk about the worst, then in this case, Rishabh Pant’s team Lucknow Super Giants, who became the most expensive player, seems to be winning, while the other teams also look weak on some fronts.
Best playing 11 of each team
Chennai Super Kings
Ruturaj Gaikwad (captain), Devon Conway, Rahul Tripathi, Shivam Dubey, Deepak Hooda, Ravindra Jadeja, MS Dhoni (wicketkeeper), Sam Curran, Ravichandran Ashwin, Noor Ahmed/Khalil Ahmed and Matisha Pathirana.
Delhi Capitals
KL Rahul, Jake Fraser McGurk, Harry Brook, Abhishek Porel (wicketkeeper), Tristan Stubbs, Ashutosh Sharma, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Mitchell Starc, T Natarajan, Mukesh Kumar.
gujarat titans
Shubman Gill (captain), Jos Buttler (wicketkeeper), Sai Sudarshan, Glenn Phillips, Washington Sundar, Rahul Tewatia, Shahrukh Khan, Rashid Khan, Sai Kishore/Prasidh Krishna, Kagiso Rabada, Mohammed Siraj.
Kolkata Knight Riders
Sunil Narine, Quinton de Kock (wk), Ajinkya Rahane, Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Harshit Rana, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakravarthy and Enrique Norkhia.
Lucknow Super Giants
Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), Mitchell Marsh, Aiden Markram, Nicholas Pooran, David Miller, Ayush Badoni, Shahbaz Ahmed, Ravi Bishnoi, Avesh Khan, Mohsin Khan, Mayank Yadav.
Mumbai Indians
Hardik Pandya (captain), Rohit Sharma, Ryan Rickleton (wicketkeeper), Tilak Verma, Suryakumar Yadav, Will Jacques, Naman Dheer, Deepak Chahar, Allah Ghazanfar, Jasprit Bumrah and Trent Boult.
punjab kings
Prabhsimran Singh, Josh Inglis (wk), Shreyas Iyer, Marcus Stoinis, Glenn Maxwell, Shashank Singh, Nehal Wadhera/Yash Thakur, Harpreet Brar, Arshdeep Singh, Marco Janson, Yuzvendra Chahal.
Rajasthan Royals
Sanju Samson (captain-wicketkeeper), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Nitish Rana, Riyan Parag, Shimron Hetmyer, Dhruv Jurel, Wanindu Hasaranga, Mahish Teekshana, Jofra Archer, Sandeep Sharma, Akash Madhwal.
Royal Challengers Bangalore
Virat Kohli, Phil Salt, Rajat Patidar, Liam Livingston, Jitesh Sharma (wk), Krunal Pandya, Tim David, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Suyash Sharma/Rasikh Salam Dar, Josh Hazlewood, Yash Dayal.
Sunrisers Hyderabad
Pat Cummins (captain), Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Ishan Kishan (wicketkeeper), Nitish Kumar Reddy, Heinrich Klaasen, Abhinav Manohar, Harshal Patel, Mohammed Shami, Adam Zampa and Rahul Chahar.