Apart from being a common thread between Adam Gilchrist and David Warner, Australian, he captained Hyderabad -based franchise for his second season. Another Australian, Pat Cummins, Sunrisers are also the captain of Hyderabad in their second season. It all looked promising in the beginning-the hyper-invasive brand of bloating, and reinforcement in auction, all pointed to another excellent season.
But last Sunday, against the Gujarat Titans, the stands were half-and-a-half, which still had a lot of sports left. This was the fourth consecutive loss of SRH in a row. Ballistic Travishek Combo, which was the key behind the SRH winning most of its games in the previous season, has not yet caught fire this season. Nitish Kumar Reddy has boiled after his promising in the last season and heroines in the red-ball in Australia. Spin-cellar Henriqus Klassen has lost his magic touch.
If they make deep progress in the tournament, SRH will have to make a quick change. But head coach Daniel Vettori insisted that he would not be able to escape from his boom or bust approach with the bat. “I think when you know the surface and the reputation of our batsmen, the burden really changes on the bowling of the opposition and to understand what they need to do. And so far, we have seen this, a game, the first game that we had,” he saw.
He is convinced about the blueprint to be successful. “And I think we can reflect that first game back and say, we know the blueprint. We do not necessarily get 270-280, but when our batsmen are able to do, I think I think the power plays and set it to our middle-order batsmen and then score on the board for our bowlers.
While the general belief is that his batting has not clicked, besides bowling Mohammed Shami and Harshal Patel, there is no threat to batting units. Below the order, Cummins’ batting cameo has been more memorable than his bowling mantra. The absence of a quality spinner hurt him in the previous season, but to redress the blame, they brought Adam Zampa and Rahul Char. While the former has been ineffective, the latter bench keeps heating.
Sunrisers Hyderabad Captain Pat Cummins in Action. (Sportzpics for IPL)
“I hate to say it, but it is probably, as I said, these are all these three subjects. They have not been able to click in a game. We look back last year and our skills were putting on big scores and then holding the beloved life with the ball.
But he believes in the scope of IPL for quick changes. “But the good thing about the IPL is that there are quick changes. There are opportunities to do well. There are personal performances within those games. So I think there is still some confidence within the batting group. But it is a collective that needs to stand now,” Vettori analyzed.
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Turnaround History
However, while things have not happened according to the plan, the IPL has a history of quality teams to start slowly and win trophies. Rohit Sharma won the title after Rohit Sharma’s Mumbai Indians (more than once) and Gautam Gambhir’s Kolkata Knight Riders in 2014.
Cummins knows all this very well. In the 2023 World Cup, his Australian team was understood after a couple of poor results in the first two matches. But for Glenn Maxwell’s knock against Afghanistan, they must have failed to qualify for a knockout. But he defeated India calmly and comfortably in the final.
After thrashing in the first Test, Seema turned around in the Gavaskar Trophy. Vetori said after the damage to Titans, “It is probably slow, can be glacier.
“I think I am very identical. But we understand the effect of losing four in a row and how difficult this season makes,” Vaterori said. The remaining SRH with nine games will still require at least seven wins to reach the playoffs depending on other results. But if they do SLI again on Saturday, they will enter the virtual knock-out sector in every league match.
