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IPL 2024: Pat Cummins named Sunrisers Hyderabad captain

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Pat Cummins would be the Sunrisers Hyderabad’s new captain beginning within the 2024 IPL season, the workforce has formally confirmed.

Aiden Markram will probably be changed at SRH by Cummins, who guided Australia to the World Check Championship and the ODI World Cup in 2023.

Throughout the IPL 2024 public sale, the Australian pacer went for 20.5 crore rupees, making him the second costliest participant within the match’s historical past.

The information was made simply in the future after it was reported that Cummins was anticipated to take Markram’s spot because the workforce’s captain for the subsequent marketing campaign.

Throughout a interview, Cummins mentioned, India is a second dwelling to him. They’re right here for a really very long time. IPL you’ve received your private home groups, he added. It feels genuinely that he has a big following right here. Or cricket supporters who’ve not less than cheered you on, or, you already know, many individuals who strategy him and mentioned, Oh, he’s from Kolkata or they help KKR. Thus, it’s comforting to know that not everyone seems to be towards you, Cummins added.

In his first match as captain on the historic Eden Gardens, Cummins will probably be again in acquainted environment as he takes towards his former workforce, the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR).

Cummins will play within the IPL for the eighth time in 2024. He was previously a member of the KKR workforce, which paid an astounding 15.50 crores to accumulate him—the best worth paid on the 2020 Indian Premier League public sale. Cummins, whereas smashing the quickest fifty-run in IPL historical past on the time with 14 balls, didn’t, nevertheless, measure as much as the expectations related to the worth tag, notably with the ball. In 2022, he made his remaining IPL look, showing in 5 matches, taking seven wickets and solely managing 63 runs.

The match is scheduled for March 23, the primary double header of the 2023 season.

In the meantime, SRH squad consists of Abdul Samad, Abhishek Sharma, Aiden Markram, Marco Jansen, Rahul Tripathi, Washington Sundar, Glenn Phillips, Sanvir Singh, Heinrich Klaasen, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mayank Agarwal, T. Natarajan, Anmolpreet Singh, Mayank Markande, Upendra Singh Yadav, Umran Malik, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Shahbaz Ahmed, Travis Head, Wanindu Hasaranga, Pat Cummins, Jaydev Unadkat, Akash Singh, Jhathavedh Subramanyan.

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