indian premier league 2024
16 seasons of the Indian Premier League have been played so far, while the 17th season will start on March 22, in which the match will be played between Chennai Super Kings and Royal Challengers Bangalore. All the teams have also announced their captains for this season, in which except Sunrisers Hyderabad, the captains of all the other 9 teams are Indian players. Sunrisers Hyderabad has appointed Pat Cummins as the captain for the upcoming season, whom they included in their team for Rs 20 crore 50 lakh during the player auction for this season. Cummins has had a very good record as captain in the last one year for the Australian team.
Will Cummins be able to join the list of these Australian greats in IPL?
In the 16 seasons of IPL so far, it has happened only 3 times that a team has won the trophy under the leadership of a foreign captain. When Rajasthan Royals team won the title in the first season of IPL played in 2008, Shane Warne was captaining the team. After this, when Deccan Chargers lifted the trophy in the 2009 IPL season, Adam Gilchrist was managing the team in that season. For the third time in the 2016 IPL season, Sunrisers Hyderabad won the title playing under the captaincy of David Warner. In such a situation, Pat Cummins, who is the only foreign captain in the IPL 2024 season, has a chance to be included in this special list.
Pat Cummins will captain for the first time in T20 format
Pat Cummins has had a great performance as a captain in the last one year, in which he first led the Australian team to win the World Test Championship title and then also won the trophy in the ODI World Cup 2023 under his captaincy. Although Cummins has not played as captain even once in the shortest format of cricket, it will not be an easy task for him to prove himself with dual responsibility in this format. Let us tell you that Sunrisers Hyderabad team has to play its first match in the IPL 2024 season against Kolkata Knight Riders on 23 March.
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