Last Updated: March 21, 2024, 13:10 IST
Pat Cummins led Australia to WTC and ODI titles final 12 months. (Pic Credit: IG/sunrisershyd)
For the third season in a row, Sunrisers Hyderabad shall be enjoying underneath a special captain with Australian Pat Cummins newest to be handed the position.
Pat Cummins had a dream run as Australia captain in 2023 that noticed him overseeing the workforce’s first ever title win at the ICC World Test Championship earlier than retaining Ashes in England. In the later half of 2023, Australia overcame in-form India in the last to elevate the ICC ODI World Cup Trophy underneath Cummins’ captaincy who then turned the costliest participant in IPL public sale historical past when Sunrisers Hyderabad bid Rs 20.50 crore for him earlier than being overtaken by Mitchell Starc who was purchased by Kolkata Knight Riders for Rs 24.75 crore.
However as soon as the IPL 2024 season will get underway, Cummins is not going to simply have to justify his price ticket as a participant but in addition guarantee SRH go away behind the stoop of the previous three seasons that has seen them end at the backside half of the desk.
Cummins is the fourth completely different participant to lead SRH in the previous 4 seasons and subsequently shall be underneath stress to flip their fortunes round.
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Ahead of the season, the 30-year-old needs to see his workforce hit the floor operating. “A bit of planning to go and then just want to get off to a really good start. T20s are hard. Kolkata’s a good team, but I just want to see a really aggressive start to the season,” mentioned Cummins in a video shared by SRH on X (previously Twitter).
“I mean, the plans are, you know, I work really closely with the guys that I don’t know too well get to know them. Get to know what they need from me out in the middle. And then work with coaches and what they want to see out of me as well as a player,” he added.
Cummins feels that SRH, the 2016 IPL champions, have an excellent mixture of expertise and youth.
“I think we’ve got a great mix. We’ve got a couple more experienced guys like Bhuvi (Bhuvneshwar Kumar). Obviously, Aiden Markram was captain last year. But we’ve got some exciting young talent,” he mentioned.
“I’m super excited to see guys like Abhishek (Sharma), Umran Malik, these guys I’ve only seen a little bit of but super excited. So, I think fans should be pretty pumped for the season ahead,” he added.
