New Delhi,
The bugle of Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 has been sounded. This league is going to start from 22nd March. In the inaugural match, the teams of current champion Chennai Super Kings and Royal Challengers Bangalore will clash at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai. Meanwhile, news is coming that Sunrisers Hyderabad can change its captain. Now the captaincy can be taken from Aiden Markram and given to Australian captain Pat Cummins.
According to the report of Cricbuzz, Pat Cummins can be given the captaincy of the team. According to the report, the franchise is making changes because the team’s performance in the last few years has not been anything special. In such a situation, the team management is preparing to make Pat Cummins the new captain. If this happens then the captaincy may be snatched from the hands of Aiden Markram.
Captain Aiden Markram had achieved the feat of winning the title for Sunrisers Cape Town in the South Africa T20 League in the year 2023 and 2024. But he proved to be a complete failure in the IPL. Last year, he scored only 235 runs for Hyderabad in 12 matches. His strike rate during this period was also around 123. Markram was bought by Hyderabad for Rs 2.60 crore in the 2022 auction.
Sunrisers Hyderabad included Pat Cummins in their team by bidding Rs 20 crore 50 lakh in IPL auction 2024. Before this, no player could touch the figure of Rs 20 crore. Let us tell you that Pat Cummins’s teammate Travis Head has also joined Sunrisers Hyderabad. There was a competition between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Chennai Super Kings to buy Travis Head. But in the end Hyderabad management bought Travis Head for Rs 6 crore 80 lakh.