Aakash Chopra comments on SRH's ever-changing captain, coach

Former India batter Aakash Chopra spoke about the Sunrisers Hyderabad and how often the franchise makes a change to their captain and coach. Chopra called them “trigger-happy” owing to this trait. SRH ended their association with Brian Lara as their head coach, and replaced him with Daniel Vettori for IPL 2024. They also replaced Aiden Markram with Pat Cummins as the captain for the upcoming season.

Speaking on his YouTube channel, Chopra said that Cummins is the latest addition to SRH’s list of captain and coach changes. He said, “SunRisers Hyderabad’s story is very interesting. They have played with a different coach and a different captain for four consecutive years. 2021 - David Warner and Trevor Bayliss; 2022 - Kane Williamson and Tom Moody; 2023 - Aiden Markram and Brian Lara and 2024 - Pat Cummins and Daniel Vettori.”

He went on say that as a franchise, SRH have always changed and fiddled around a lot with their combinations and will be going into a season with a fresh captain-coach combination for the fourth consecutive year.

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SRH won the IPL title in 2016 and then, finished as runners-up in 2018, but have not been able to reach the playoffs for the past three seasons.

Before the IPL 2024 auction, SRH released Harry Brook, Samarth Vyas, Kartik Tyagi, Vivrant Sharma, Akeal Hosein, and Adil Rashid. They also traded Mayank Dagar for Shahbaz Ahmed with the Royal Challengers Bangalore.

Pat Cummins, who will now captain the side, was the franchise’s most expensive acquisition at the auction, securing him for ₹20.50 crore. Other big-ticket signings were Travis Head (₹6.80 crore), Wanindu Hasaranga (₹1.50 crore), and Jaydev Unadkat (₹1.60 crore).

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With Cummins now in charge, SRH can field their recent acquisitions - Travis Head and Wanindu Hasaranga - alongside finisher Heinrich Klaasen ahead of Markram if they do decide to go along this route. Their matters will be further complicated since they have Afghanistan’s Fazalhaq Farooqi and South Africa’s Marco Jansen as the other overseas pacers in the squad, with New Zealand’s Glenn Phillips being the all-rounder in the squad.