Pat Cummins appointed Sunrisers Hyderabad captain for IPL 2024, rewarded for spectacular leadership run with Australia
Hindustan TimesAfter captaining Australia to World Test Championship victory in June 2023, followed by retaining the Ashes in England and later leading them to the ICC ODI World Cup title win in India, Pat Cummins will now have a chance at adding the Indian Premier League trophy to his illustrious resume as Sunrisers Hyderabad on Monday announced the Aussie as their new skipper for the IPL 2024 season. Australian captain Pat Cummins holds the trophy after winning the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup 2023, at the Narendra Modi Stadium, in Ahmedabad Returning to IPL after a year's gap, which he took owing to his preparations for the ODI World Cup last year, Cummins was roped in by SRH in December, in the mini-auction in Dubai, for a record INR 20.50 crore, where the 2016 winners outlasted Mumbai Indians, Chennai Super Kings and Royal Challengers Bangalore in the intense bidding session. The Aussie all-rounder was the first-ever player to fetch more than INR 20 crore in an IPL auction, but his record for being the most expensive player in history lasted only an hour as Kolkata Knight Riders signed fellow Australia cricketer Mitchell Starc for a whopping INR 24.75 crore. This will also be his first season as an IPL captain with SRH making the big call after Cummins' dream run as a skipper and cricketer across formats.