Will an expensive player be able to get Hyderabad the title, analysis of the team
IPL 2024 SRH : Even before the start of IPL 2024, Sunrisers Hyderabad team is once again in the news. The SRH team often makes changes in its players, captain and coach, but even then, forget about the title, the team is yearning to reach the playoffs for the last few years. This time too many changes have been made in the team. The second most expensive player of IPL and ODI World Cup winning captain Pat Cummins has the ability to make Sunrisers Hyderabad the champion this time. Let us try to understand the team.
SRH won the IPL title for the first and last time in the year 2016.
Sunrisers Hyderabad team has won the IPL trophy only once till now i.e. in the year 2016. The captain of the team at that time was David Warner. But after this some of Warner’s seasons went bad. Not only was the captaincy taken away from him, but he was also dropped from the team. It has been the tradition of SRH that this team has been continuously making changes in its players, coach and captain. This time Pat Cummins has been made the new captain by replacing Aiden Markram. This possibility was being expressed when Cummins was bought at a huge price, which has now also been announced by the team.
Pat Cummins is the World Test Championship and ODI World Cup winner
The special thing about Pat Cummins is that he first won the World Test Championship title and then when the ODI World Cup was held in the year 2023, he also won it. Both times Pat Cummins defeated Team India captained by Rohit Sharma. After this, he started being counted among the great captains of the world. SRH team last reached the playoffs in the year 2020. Now the biggest challenge before Cummins will be how to take the team to the last four. Making a place in the top 4 among ten teams is not going to be an easy task, Cummins also knows this.
Pat Cummins is the World Test Championship and ODI World Cup winner
SRH team will play KKR in Kolkata on March 23.
The first match of SRH under the captaincy of Pat Cummins will be against KKR on March 23. This match will be played in Kolkata. That means the test of Pat Cummins will start from the very first match. This time SRH has spent a huge amount of Rs 20.5 crore on Pat Cummins, so there will definitely be pressure on Cummins himself to perform well and take the team forward. Pat Cummins was earlier playing for KKR in the year 2022, but he was not seen in the 2023 IPL. Now he is making a comeback after a gap of one year.
Take a look at the statistics of captain Pat Cummins
Talking about Pat Cummins’ T20 statistics, he has taken 145 wickets in 130 matches so far. At the same time, he has also scored three half-centuries. Even though Pat Cummins is considered a fast bowler, he has often contributed to his team with the bat as well. This time he will have to do the same work for Sunrisers Hyderabad. It will definitely be interesting to see how successful they are in this.
Heinrich Klaasen will once again be under watch in IPL
Heinrich Klaasen will once again be under watch in IPL
After Pat Cummins, the player to keep an eye on for SRH will definitely be Heinrich Klaasen. In IPL 2023, he played many good innings for the same team and after this his bat also spoke well in the ODI World Cup played in India. Talking about the year 2023 itself, Heinrich Klaasen has scored 1482 runs at an average of more than 181. In the IPL played in the same year, Klaasen scored 448 runs for his team SRH, which was the highest for that team. Apart from this, his bat also performed well in SA20 played in South Africa and he also became the second highest run scorer. Klaasen scored 448 runs in 11 innings played in the 2023 IPL. Here his average was around 49 and strike rate was 177. He scored two half-centuries and one century. This time again the SRH team would have high expectations from him.
Sunrisers Hyderabad has a large army of foreign players
Sunrisers Hyderabad team has a very large army of foreign players. There are many foreign players in the team, but this creates the problem of playing eleven. There can be a maximum of only 4 foreign players in the playing eleven of IPL. The team faces difficulty in selecting it. If we talk about this time only, apart from Pat Cummins and Henrik Klaas, there are players like Travis Head and Wanindu Hasaranga. Apart from this, there is also former captain Aidan Markram. In such a situation, apart from Pat Cummins and Heinrich Klaasen, the third foreign player will be Aidan Markram, now only one spot is left for the fourth player, whereas there are many players. Apart from these, there are also Glenn Phillips, Marco Jansen and Fazalhaq Farooqui in the team, who are unable to find a place.
The team has not been able to fill the gap of Rashid Khan
Earlier, world star spinner Rashid Khan used to play for SRH, but now he has gone to Gujarat Titans, the team has not been able to fill his void for the last two years. Although Washington Sundar is handsome and Wanindu Hasaranga is there in the team, but the same quality which Rashid used to have is not visible. The captain and the team management will definitely have to think about how they will be compensated.
Bhuvneshar Kumar will have to use his experience
Bhuvneshwar Kumar will have to use his experience
India’s star fast bowler Bhuvneshwar Kumar is also in the team, but for some time now he has not been able to bowl the kind of lethal bowling for which he has been known and recognized. The kind of experience that Bhuvneshwar Kumar brings is not available to many teams. However, the good thing for the team is that even though Bhuvi’s last season was not good, the domestic season has been very good. The team would like this trend to continue here also.
SRH’s full squad for IPL 2024: Pat Cummins (captain), Abdul Samad, Abhishek Sharma, Aiden Markram, Marco Johnson, 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 Farooqui, Shahbaz Ahmed, Travis Head, Wanindu Hasaranga, Jaydev Unadkat, Akash Singh, Jathaved Subramanian.
Also read these sports news on India TV
IPL 2024: Now even this player will not play IPL, direct entry of new player
IPL Records: Virat Kohli created a unique record 8 years ago, it is unbroken till date
Latest Cricket News