Pat Cummins Appointed Captain of Sunrisers Hyderabad For IPL 2024
New Delhi: Australia World Cup-winning captain Pat Cummins will lead IPL franchise Sunrisers Hyderabad in the 2024 season of Indian Premier League which is scheduled to start from March 22.
Cummins was the second most expensive buy of the IPL auction. SRH brought him for a whopping 20.5 crore.
#OrangeArmy! Our new skipper Pat Cummins #IPL2024 pic.twitter.com/ODNY9pdlEf
— SunRisers Hyderabad (@SunRisers) March 4, 2024
Under Cummins captaincy Australia have won WTC Final against Indian and ODI World Cup where they faced India in the final at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on November 19.
Speaking ahead of his SRH debut, Cummins had said that India is like a second home for him.
“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, Oh, I’m from Kolkata or I go for KKR. So it’s nice feeling like not everyone’s against you,” Cummins said on Star Sports.
SRH Full Squad
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