Indian Premier League cricket team season
Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) are a franchise cricket team based in Hyderabad , India, which plays in the Indian Premier League (IPL). They were one of the eight teams that competed in the 2017 Indian Premier League , making their fifth outing in all IPL tournaments. The team was captained by David Warner and coached by Tom Moody with Simon Helmot as assistant coach, Muttiah Muralitharan as bowling coach and VVS Laxman as mentor.[1] The Sunrisers drew an average home attendance of 26,000 in the 2017 IPL season.
They entered this edition as the defending champions and started their campaign against the Royal Challengers Bangalore on 5 April 2017 on a winning note. They qualified for playoffs but got lost to the Kolkata Knight Riders in Eliminator finishing fourth at the end of the tournament. Warner won the Orange Cap in the 2017 IPL by scoring 641 runs and Bhuvneshwar Kumar 's 26 wickets won him the Purple Cap .[2]
David Warner captained SRH for IPL 2017
Player acquisition
Retention
The Sunrisers Hyderabad retained 17 players and released 6 players from their 2016 squad . They went into the 2017 IPL auction with the remaining salary cap of ₹ 209 million (US$2.6 million)[3]
Player auction
The player auction for the season was held on 20 February 2017 in Bangalore with more than 750 players having registered for the auction.[4] The Sunrisers Hyderabad ended the auction with an addition of 8 players to their squad spending ₹ 86.5 million (US$1.1 million).[5]
Retained Players
David Warner , Shikhar Dhawan , Moises Henriques , Ben Cutting , Deepak Hooda , Yuvraj Singh , Kane Williamson , Vijay Shankar , Naman Ojha , Bhuvneshwar Kumar , Barinder Sran , Ashish Nehra , Abhimanyu Mithun , Siddarth Kaul , Bipul Sharma , Mustafizur Rahman and Ricky Bhui Released players
Trent Boult , Eoin Morgan , Aditya Tare , Tirumalasetti Suman , Karn Sharma and Ashish Reddy Added Players
Mohammad Nabi , Rashid Khan , Chris Jordan , Tanmay Agarwal , Ben Laughlin , Mohammed Siraj , Eklavya Dwivedi and Pravin Tambe
Squad
Players with international caps are listed in bold .
No.
Name
Nationality
Birth date
Batting style
Bowling style
Year signed
Salary
Notes
Batsmen
11
Tanmay Agarwal
India
(1995-05-03 ) 3 May 1995 (aged 21)
Right-handed
Right-arm leg break
2017
₹ 1 million (US$13,000)
22
Kane Williamson
New Zealand
(1990-08-08 ) 8 August 1990 (aged 26)
Right-handed
Right-arm off break
2015
₹ 6 million (US$75,000)
Overseas.
25
Shikhar Dhawan
India
(1985-12-05 ) 5 December 1985 (aged 31)
Left-handed
Right-arm off break
2013
₹ 95 million (US$1.2 million)
31
David Warner
Australia
(1986-10-27 ) 27 October 1986 (aged 30)
Left-handed
Right-arm leg break
2014
₹ 55 million (US$690,000)
Captain , Overseas.
32
Ricky Bhui
India
(1996-11-29 ) 29 November 1996 (aged 20)
Right-handed
Right-arm leg break
2014
₹ 1 million (US$13,000)
All-rounders
5
Moisés Henriques
Australia
(1987-02-01 ) 1 February 1987 (aged 30)
Right-handed
Right-arm medium-fast
2014
₹ 10 million (US$130,000)
Overseas.
7
Mohammad Nabi
Afghanistan
(1985-01-01 ) 1 January 1985 (aged 32)
Right-handed
Right-arm off break
2017
₹ 3 million (US$38,000)
Overseas.
12
Yuvraj Singh
India
(1981-12-12 ) 12 December 1981 (aged 35)
Left-handed
Slow left-arm orthodox
2016
₹ 70 million (US$880,000)
14
Deepak Hooda
India
(1995-04-19 ) 19 April 1995 (aged 21)
Right-handed
Right-arm off break
2016
₹ 42 million (US$530,000)
28
Bipul Sharma
India
(1983-09-28 ) 28 September 1983 (aged 33)
Left-handed
Slow left-arm orthodox
2015
₹ 1 million (US$13,000)
30
Ben Cutting
Australia
(1987-01-30 ) 30 January 1987 (aged 30)
Right-handed
Right-arm medium-fast
2016
₹ 5 million (US$63,000)
Overseas.
59
Vijay Shankar
India
(1991-01-26 ) 26 January 1991 (aged 26)
Right-handed
Right-arm medium
2016
₹ 3.5 million (US$44,000)
Wicket-keepers
53
Naman Ojha
India
(1983-07-20 ) 20 July 1983 (aged 33)
Right-handed
Right-arm medium
2014
₹ 5 million (US$63,000)
54
Eklavya Dwivedi
India
(1988-07-22 ) 22 July 1988 (aged 28)
Right-handed
Right-arm wicket keeper
2017
₹ 7.5 million (US$94,000)
Bowlers
9
Siddarth Kaul
India
(1990-05-19 ) 19 May 1990 (aged 26)
Right-handed
Right-arm medium-fast
2016
₹ 3 million (US$38,000)
13
Mohammed Siraj
India
(1994-03-13 ) 13 March 1994 (aged 23)
Right-handed
Right-arm fast-medium
2017
₹ 26 million (US$330,000)
15
Bhuvneshwar Kumar
India
(1990-02-05 ) 5 February 1990 (aged 27)
Right-handed
Right-arm medium-fast
2014
₹ 42.5 million (US$530,000)
19
Rashid Khan
Afghanistan
(1998-09-20 ) 20 September 1998 (aged 18)
Right-handed
Right-arm leg break
2017
₹ 40 million (US$500,000)
Overseas.
21
Abhimanyu Mithun
India
(1989-10-25 ) 25 October 1989 (aged 27)
Right-handed
Right-arm medium-fast
2016
₹ 3 million (US$38,000)
34
Chris Jordan
England
(1988-10-04 ) 4 October 1988 (aged 28)
Right-handed
Right-arm fast-medium
2017
₹ 5 million (US$63,000)
Overseas.
51
Barinder Sran
India
(1992-12-10 ) 10 December 1992 (aged 24)
Left-handed
Left-arm fast-medium
2016
₹ 12 million (US$150,000)
64
Ashish Nehra
India
(1979-04-29 ) 29 April 1979 (aged 37)
Right-handed
Left-arm medium-fast
2016
₹ 55 million (US$690,000)
90
Mustafizur Rahman
Bangladesh
(1995-09-06 ) 6 September 1995 (aged 21)
Left-handed
Left-arm fast-medium
2016
₹ 14 million (US$180,000)
Overseas.
91
Ben Laughlin
Australia
(1982-10-03 ) 3 October 1982 (aged 34)
Right-handed
Right-arm fast-medium
2017
₹ 3 million (US$38,000)
Overseas.
92
Pravin Tambe
India
(1971-10-08 ) 8 October 1971 (aged 45)
Right-handed
Right-arm leg break
2017
₹ 1 million (US$13,000)
Opening ceremony
Opening ceremony was held on 5 April 2017 at their home, Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium , Hyderabad . At the opening ceremony four former Indian cricket players Sachin Tendulkar , Virender Sehwag , Sourav Ganguly and V.V.S. Laxman were felicitated . Bollywood actress Amy Jackson also performed in the ceremony.[7]
Statistics
Last updated: 19 May 2017
Reaction
The 2017 season performances helped the IPL see its brand value jump by 26% to the estimated value of US$ 5.3 billion. The SunRisers also saw the increase in their brand value by 37% to US$ 56 million in 2017, according to Duff & Phelps .[25]