IPL 2024: Sunrisers Hyderabad Appoints World Cup-winner Pat Cummins as Captain for the Upcoming Season

IPL 2024: Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) has appointed World Cup-winning Australia pacer Pat Cummins as their new captain ahead of the upcoming IPL season. Cummins is the replacement of South Africa’s pacer Aiden Markram as the skipper of the side after the bottom-place finish in the last season.

Pat Cummins won the ICC World Test Championship and ICC Cricket World Cup with Australia last year as a captain is the new captain for the SRH franchise. He was bought by SRH for Rs 20.5 crore in the recent IPL auction, making him the second most expensive player in history.

On Monday, SRH took X (formerly Twitter) to make the announcement.

#OrangeArmy! Our new skipper Pat Cummins 🧡#IPL2024 pic.twitter.com/ODNY9pdlEf

— SunRisers Hyderabad (@SunRisers) March 4, 2024

“#OrangeArmy! Our new skipper Pat Cummins #IPL2024,” tweeted SRH.

It is the first time Cummins will be captaining an IPL franchise and reuniting with Daniel Vettori, the new SRH coach who also works as an assistant coach for Australia.

Cummins becomes the second Australian to be SRH captain after David Warner, who led the team in 67 matches from 2015 to 2021.

Previously, Cummins has been part of Delhi Capitals and Kolkata Knight Riders in the Indian Premier League. He has only featured in 42 IPL matches and picked 45 wickets at an average of 30.16.

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Sunrisers Hyderabad, the IPL 2016 winners, will open its IPL 2024 campaign on March 23 against two-time champions Kolkata Knight Riders at the Eden Gardens, followed by playing its first home match at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium on March 27 against five-time champions Mumbai Indians.

SRH squad for IPL 2024 season: Pat Cummins (C), Abdul Samad, Abhishek Sharma, Aiden Markram, Marco Jansen, Washington Sundar, Rahul Tripathi, Glenn Phillips, Heinrich Klaasen, Sanvir Singh, Mayank Agarwal, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, T. Natarajan, Anmolpreet Singh, Upendra Singh Yadav, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Umran Malik, Shahbaz Ahmed, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Travis Head, Jaydev Unadkat, Wanindu Hasaranga, Akash Singh, Jhathavedh Subramanyamn.