Who will get retained by their franchise in this year’s IPL auction?

Delhi Daredevils

Delhi Daredevils

Delhi Daredevils (DD) had a terrible season last year. They might be planning to change the entire squad for 2014 IPL. But they have a reason to relax a bit because now India’s favourite coach, Gary Kristen is going to manage them.

David Warner will be their first choice. His performance in Ashes has been a matured one. His teammate Peter Siddle considers him as one of the players who can succeed Michael Clarke in the future. It would be fair to give India’s forgotten hero, Virender Sehwag, a chance to prove himself. One of the players among Varun Aaron should be retained. Irfan Pathan too stands a chance.

Warner can be used either as an opener or a one-down batsman. He can bowl too. Sehwag is known for destroying the economy of even good bowlers in T20. Pathan is an all-rounder who can be useful for DD.

So DD would count on David Warner, Virender Sehwag, Irfan Pathan, Varun Aaron and Umesh Yadav for retaining process.

Kolkata Knight Riders

Kolkata Knight Riders

The Sharukh Khan owned Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) performed well only in the last two seasons where they won the 2012 season. KKR’s skipper, Gautam Gambhir, World No. 1 batsman in T20, Brendon McCullum, and Sunil Narine are the players whom KKR wouldn’t want to lose. The new start Indian bowler Shami Ahmed can be given a chance too.

Brett Lee has been their mentor as well as the bowling coach. It is a little difficult to say if what the team has in store for him ahead of the seventh edition of IPL.

The four players who can be retained by KKR are Gautam Gambhir, Brendon McCullum, Sunil Narine and Shami Ahmed.