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This is an archive article published on March 4, 2024
IPL 2024: Pat Cummins named Sunrisers Hyderabad captain, says ‘India is like second home’
Pat Cummins was bought for a whopping Rs 20.5 crore in the IPL auction in 2023
Australia's Pat Cummins in action during ICC Men's Cricket World Cup final between India and Australia at Narendra Modi Stadium.
(Express photo by Nirmal Harindran)
SunRisers Hyderabad on Monday announced Australia’s World Cup-winning skipper Pat Cummins as their new captain for the upcoming Indian Premier League (IPL) season.
Cummins, who was bought for a whopping Rs 20.5 crore in the auction in 2023, will take over the reins of the team from South Africa’s Aiden Markram, under whom the Orange Army had finished last in the 2023 season, winning just 4 out of 14 matches.
“India is like a second home. We spend so much time here. IPL, you’ve got your home teams. So you actually feel like you’ve got plenty of fans. Or, you know, at least cricket fans that have, you know, supported you or, you know, lots of people come up to me and say, I’m from Kolkata or I go for KKR. So it’s nice feeling like not everyone’s against you,” Cummins said after SRH made the announcement.
The one-time champions will take on Kolkata Knight Riders in their IPL 2024 opening fixture on March 23 at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata, according to the partial schedule that was released last week.
The full schedule for the upcoming season will be released when Election Commission of India’s decides the dates of the General Election which is expected to clash with the 2-month extravaganza.
As mentioned, SRH in 2023 had an ordinary campaign despite having a well-rounded squad. The Orange Army have only further bolstered their team this year with the likes of Cummins and Travis Head, both of whom played a significant part in helping Australia win the 2023 World Cup.
After the Kolkata match, Sunrisers Hyderabad will take on Mumbai Indians on Match 27 at home before going up against the Gujarat Titans on Match 31 in Ahmedabad and Chennai Super Kings in Chennai on April 5.
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SRH squad for IPL 2024 season
Abdul Samad, Abhishek Sharma, Aiden Markram (c), 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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