IPL 2024: Will Pat Cummins be successful as captain, has not captained in T20I till date
This will be the first time that Pat Cummins will be seen captaining in the IPL. Pat Cummins & SRH Team (Photo Source: Getty Images/X/Twitter) Now only a few days are left for the start of IPL 2024. Chennai Super Kings and Royal Challengers Bangalore will clash in the opening match of the tournament. Talking about Sunrisers Hyderabad, it will play its first match against Kolkata Knight Riders on 23 March. This time Pat Cummins will be seen leading the team. In the mini auction, the franchise bet on the Australian player and bought him for Rs 20.50 crore. He is the second most expensive player in IPL history. This will be the first time that Pat Cummins will be seen captaining in the IPL. Let us tell you that Cummins had withdrawn his name from IPL 2023 to focus on international cricket, but now he is excited about playing in the upcoming edition. Pat Cummins made his IPL debut in 2014 and was a part of the KKR team from 2020 to 2022. Pat Cummins has not been that impressive during his IPL career. He has played 42 matches so far, in which he has 45 wickets in his name. Apart from this, he has scored 379 runs with the bat. Excellent record as captain in international cricket It is noteworthy that Cummins has an excellent record as a captain in international cricket. He has led the Australian team in 27 test matches. In which 16 have been won and 6 have been lost, while five matches have been drawn. His win percentage in red ball cricket is 59.25. In ODI, he has captained in 15 matches, in which he has won 12 matches and lost 3. The winning percentage during this period is 80.00. It was under his captaincy that Australia retained the Ashes. Apart from this, won the title of 2023 ODI World Cup and World Test Championship. However, Pat Cummins has not captained the team in T20I, the shortest format of the game. Talking about SRH team, it won the title in 2016 under the leadership of David Warner. However, after this the franchise has faced disappointment every season. Last season, under the captaincy of Aiden Markram, SRH won only four out of 14 league matches. He stood last in the points table. Sunrisers Hyderabad team for IPL 2024 Pat Cummins (captain), Mayank Agarwal, Trevid Head, Rahul Tripathi, Aiden Markram, Heinrich Klaasen (wicketkeeper), Abdul Samad, Washington Sundar, Umran Malik, T Natarajan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Sanveer Singh, Upendra Singh Yadav, Abhishek Sharma, Marco Yanson, Glenn Phillips, Fazalhaq Faruqui, Heinrich Klaasen, Mayank Markande, Anmolpreet Singh, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Jaydev Unadkat, Wanindu Hasaranga, Akash Singh, J Subramaniam.
IND vs ENG: Rohit Sharma has captained very well on the third day of the third test: Nick Knight
By the end of the third day’s play, the Indian team had scored 196 runs after losing two wickets in its second innings. Rohit Sharma (Photo Source: X/Twitter) Former England opener Nick Knight has praised the captaincy of Indian team captain Rohit Sharma after the end of the third day of the third Test. Let us tell you, the Indian team is currently playing a 5-match Test series against England, the third Test of which is being played in Rajkot. By the end of the third day’s play, the Indian team had scored 196 runs after losing two wickets in its second innings. Talking about England, the team scored 319 runs in its first innings after losing all the wickets. He had scored only 95 runs in his remaining 8 wickets. Rohit Sharma captained very well and put pressure on England. Nick Knight said on air, ‘We talked about how baseball works. We haven’t talked about how there is a downside to this. The way the Indian team bowled should be highly praised. It was a very good day for the Indian team. I think Indian team captain Rohit Sharma captained very well and put pressure on England. Siraj also bowled very well on the third day of the game and completely destroyed England’s batting lineup. It started after Root’s wicket: Nick Knight Nick Knight further said, ‘What did England do wrong? It started when Root’s wicket fell. England was able to make a comeback after this. After this, India continuously put pressure on England and this is the reason why the English team could not make a comeback in this match. At present the Indian team is far ahead in this match. Now it remains to be seen whether England is able to make a comeback in the fourth day of the third Test or not? List of bowlers who took the fastest 500 wickets in Test cricket- 4 Indian players who scored the fastest half-centuries in test debut 5 teams that have won the Under 19 World Cup the most number of times 3 Australian players who have won POTM awards the most number of times in T20I 5 players who made the biggest scores in ODI cricket for Sri Lanka Five best innings played by Indian captains in Under-19 World Cup 4 Indian bowlers who became number 1 bowler in test cricket List of batsmen who remained not out most number of times in IPL Top 4 Indian bowlers who took 150 wickets in least number of test matches List of foreign players earning big from IPL 2024