Sunrisers Hyderabad

2021 season
Coach	Trevor Bayliss
Captain	David Warner Kane Williamson[a] Manish Pandey[b]
Ground(s)	Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium, Hyderabad
IPL	League stage (8th)
Most runs	Manish Pandey (292)
Most wickets	Rashid Khan (18)
Most catches	Abdul Samad (8)
Most wicket-keeping dismissals	Wriddhiman Saha (6)
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The Sunrisers Hyderabad (often abbreviated as SRH) are a franchise cricket team based in Hyderabad, Telangana, which plays in the Indian Premier League (IPL). They were one of the eight teams to compete in the 2021 Indian Premier League, making their ninth appearance in all IPL tournaments. The team was coached by Trevor Bayliss with Brad Haddin as assistant coach, Muttiah Muralitharan as bowling coach and VVS Laxman as mentor.^[3]

They began the season with a loss against the Kolkata Knight Riders and failed to qualify for the playoffs finishing eighth at the end of the tournament.^[4][5]

On 15 December 2020, Tom Moody was appointed as the Director of Cricket for Sunrisers Hyderabad.^[6][7] He coached the Sunrisers since its inception in 2013 until the end of 2019 season. The Sunrisers won their only IPL title in 2016 under his charge.^[6]

The Sunrisers Hyderabad retained 22 players and released five players as they announced their retention list on 20 January 2021 ahead of the auction.^[8][9] They will enter into the auction with the remaining salary cap of ₹10.75 crore (US$1.3 million) to fill minimum of three domestic and one overseas players' slot.^[10][11]

The players' auction took place on 18 February 2021 in Chennai.^[12] The Sunrisers acquired services of two domestic players and an overseas player.^[13]

Retained players

David Warner, Manish Pandey, Kane Williamson, Jonny Bairstow, Wriddhiman Saha, Shreevats Goswami, Priyam Garg, Virat Singh, Rashid Khan, Vijay Shankar, Mohammad Nabi, Abhishek Sharma, Mitchell Marsh, Jason Holder, Abdul Samad, Thangarasu Natarajan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Shahbaz Nadeem, Khaleel Ahmed, Siddarth Kaul, Sandeep Sharma, Basil Thampi

Released players

Sanjay Yadav, Bavanaka Sandeep, Billy Stanlake, Fabian Allen, Prithvi Raj

Added players

Jagadeesha Suchith, Kedar Jadhav, Mujeeb Ur Rahman

Replacement players

Jason Roy,^[14] Sherfane Rutherford,^[15] Umran Malik^[16]

• Players with international caps are listed in bold.
• Year signed denotes the season the player first played for the side

No.	Name	Nationality	Birth date	Batting style	Bowling style	Year signed	Salary[17]	Notes
Batsmen
1	Abdul Samad	India	(2001-10-28)28 October 2001 (aged 19)	Right-handed	Right-arm leg break	2020	₹20 lakh (US$23,000)
8	Virat Singh	India	(1997-12-08)8 December 1997 (aged 23)	Left-handed	Right-arm leg spin	2020	₹1.9 crore (US$220,000)
11	Priyam Garg	India	(2000-11-30)30 November 2000 (aged 20)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast	2020	₹1.9 crore (US$220,000)
18	Kedar Jadhav	India	(1985-03-26)26 March 1985 (aged 36)	Right-handed	Right-arm off break	2021	₹2 crore (US$230,000)
20	Jason Roy	England	(1990-07-21)21 July 1990 (aged 30)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium	2021	₹2 crore (US$230,000)	Overseas, Replacement for Marsh.[14]
21	Manish Pandey	India	(1989-09-10)10 September 1989 (aged 31)	Right-handed		2018	₹11 crore (US$1.3 million)
22	Kane Williamson	New Zealand	(1990-08-08)8 August 1990 (aged 30)	Right-handed	Right-arm off break	2015	₹3 crore (US$350,000)	Captain, Overseas
31	David Warner	Australia	(1986-10-27)27 October 1986 (aged 34)	Left-handed	Right-arm leg break	2014	₹12 crore (US$1.4 million)	Overseas
All-rounders
4	Abhishek Sharma	India	(2000-09-04)4 September 2000 (aged 20)	Left-handed	Left-arm orthodox	2019	₹55 lakh (US$64,000)
5	Mitchell Marsh	Australia	(1991-10-20)20 October 1991 (aged 29)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast	2020	₹2 crore (US$230,000)	Overseas. Pulled out on 31 March for personal reasons.[14]
7	Mohammad Nabi	Afghanistan	(1985-01-01)1 January 1985 (aged 36)	Right-handed	Right-arm off break	2017	₹1 crore (US$120,000)	Overseas
59	Vijay Shankar	India	(1991-01-26)26 January 1991 (aged 30)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast	2019	₹3.2 crore (US$370,000)	Isolated as primary contact for COVID-19.[18]
98	Jason Holder	Barbados	(1991-11-05)5 November 1991 (aged 29)	Right-handed	Right-arm fast	2020	₹75 lakh (US$88,000)	Overseas
	Sherfane Rutherford	Guyana	(1998-08-15)15 August 1998 (aged 22)	Left-handed	Right-arm medium-fast	2021	₹75 lakh (US$88,000)	Overseas, Replacement for Bairstow.[15] Pulled out on 23 September for personal reasons.[19]
Wicket-keepers
6	Wriddhiman Saha	India	(1984-10-24)24 October 1984 (aged 36)	Right-handed		2018	₹1.2 crore (US$140,000)
36	Shreevats Goswami	India	(1989-05-18)18 May 1989 (aged 31)	Left-handed		2018	₹1 crore (US$120,000)
51	Jonny Bairstow	England	(1989-09-26)26 September 1989 (aged 31)	Right-handed		2019	₹2.2 crore (US$260,000)	Overseas. Pulled out on 11 September owing to bubble fatigue.[20]
Bowlers
9	Siddarth Kaul	India	(1990-05-19)19 May 1990 (aged 30)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast	2016	₹3.8 crore (US$440,000)
15	Bhuvneshwar Kumar	India	(1990-02-05)5 February 1990 (aged 31)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast	2014	₹8.5 crore (US$990,000)
19	Rashid Khan	Afghanistan	(1998-09-20)20 September 1998 (aged 22)	Right-handed	Right-arm leg break	2017	₹9 crore (US$1.1 million)	Overseas
24	Umran Malik	India	(1999-11-22)22 November 1999 (aged 21)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast	2021	₹10 lakh (US$12,000)	Short-term replacement for Natarajan.[16]
25	Khaleel Ahmed	India	(1997-12-05)5 December 1997 (aged 23)	Right-handed	Left-arm medium-fast	2018	₹3 crore (US$350,000)
30	Basil Thampi	India	(1993-09-11)11 September 1993 (aged 27)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast	2018	₹95 lakh (US$110,000)
44	T. Natarajan	India	(1991-04-04)4 April 1991 (aged 30)	Left-handed	Left-arm medium-fast	2018	₹40 lakh (US$47,000)	Pulled out on 22 April due to knee injury[21] and returned for UAE leg. Tested positive for COVID-19 on 22 September.[18]
45	Jagadeesha Suchith	India	(1994-01-16)16 January 1994 (aged 27)	Left-handed	Left-arm orthodox	2021	₹30 lakh (US$35,000)
66	Sandeep Sharma	India	(1993-05-18)18 May 1993 (aged 27)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast	2018	₹3 crore (US$350,000)
77	Mujeeb Ur Rahman	Afghanistan	(2001-03-28)28 March 2001 (aged 20)	Right-handed	Right-arm off break	2021	₹1.5 crore (US$180,000)	Overseas
88	Shahbaz Nadeem	India	(1989-08-12)12 August 1989 (aged 31)	Right-handed	Left-arm orthodox	2019	₹3.2 crore (US$370,000)

Position	Name
Owner	Kalanithi Maran (Sun Network)
CEO	K Shanmughan
Director of cricket	Tom Moody
Head coach	Trevor Bayliss
Assistant coach	Brad Haddin
Bowling coach	Muttiah Muralitharan
Fielding coach	Biju George
Physio	Theo Kapakoulakis
Physical trainer	Mario Villavarayan
Source:[3]

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	NR	Pts	NRR
1	Delhi Capitals (3rd)	14	10	4	0	20	0.481	Advanced to Qualifier 1
2	Chennai Super Kings (C)	14	9	5	0	18	0.455
3	Royal Challengers Bangalore (4th)	14	9	5	0	18	−0.140	Advanced to the Eliminator
4	Kolkata Knight Riders (R)	14	7	7	0	14	0.587
5	Mumbai Indians	14	7	7	0	14	0.116
6	Punjab Kings	14	6	8	0	12	−0.001
7	Rajasthan Royals	14	5	9	0	10	−0.993
8	Sunrisers Hyderabad	14	3	11	0	6	−0.545

11 April	Kolkata Knight Riders 187/5 (20 overs)	v	Sunrisers Hyderabad (H) 177/6 (20 overs)	Kolkata Knight Riders won by 10 runs
19:30 (D/N) Match 1 Scorecard				M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai Umpires: K. N. Ananthapadmanabhan (Ind) and Nitin Menon (Ind) Player of the match: Nitish Rana (Kolkata Knight Riders)
	Nitish Rana 80 (56) Rashid Khan 2/24 (4 overs)		Manish Pandey 61* (44) Prasidh Krishna 2/35 (4 overs)
Sunrisers Hyderabad won the toss and elected to field.

14 April	Royal Challengers Bangalore 149/8	v	Sunrisers Hyderabad (H) 143/9	Royal Challengers Bangalore won by 6 runs
19:30 (D/N) Match 2 Scorecard				M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai Umpires: Ulhas Gandhe (Ind) and Nitin Menon (Ind) Player of the match: Glenn Maxwell (Royal Challengers Bangalore)
	Glenn Maxwell 59 (41) Jason Holder 3/30 (4 overs)		David Warner 54 (37) Shahbaz Ahmed 3/7 (2 overs)
Sunrisers Hyderabad won the toss and elected to field.

17 April	(H) Mumbai Indians 150/5 (20 overs)	v	Sunrisers Hyderabad 137 (19.4 overs)	Mumbai Indians won by 13 runs
19:30 (D/N) Match 3 Scorecard				M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai Umpires: Chris Gaffaney (NZ) and Krishnamachari Srinivasan (Ind) Player of the match: Kieron Pollard (Mumbai Indians)
	Quinton de Kock 40 (39) Vijay Shankar 2/19 (3 overs)		Jonny Bairstow 43 (22) Rahul Chahar 3/19 (4 overs)
Mumbai Indians won the toss and elected to bat.

21 April	(H) Punjab Kings 120 (19.4 overs)	v	Sunrisers Hyderabad 121/1 (18.4 overs)	Sunrisers Hyderabad won by 9 wickets
15:30 (D/N) Match 4 Scorecard				M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai Umpires: Nitin Menon (Ind) and Krishnamachari Srinivasan (Ind) Player of the match: Jonny Bairstow (Sunrisers Hyderabad)
	Shahrukh Khan 22 (17) Khaleel Ahmed 3/21 (4 overs)		Jonny Bairstow 63* (56) Fabian Allen 1/22 (4 overs)
Punjab Kings won the toss and elected to bat.

25 April	Delhi Capitals 159/4 (20 overs)	v	(H) Sunrisers Hyderabad 159/7 (20 overs)	Match tied (Delhi Capitals won the Super Over)
19:30 (D/N) Match 5 Scorecard				M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai Umpires: K. N. Ananthapadmanabhan (Ind) and Chris Gaffaney (NZ) Player of the match: Prithvi Shaw (Delhi Capitals)
	Prithvi Shaw 53 (39) Siddarth Kaul 2/31 (4 overs)		Kane Williamson 66* (51) Avesh Khan 3/34 (4 overs)
Delhi Capitals won the toss and elected to bat. Super Over: Sunrisers Hyderabad 7/0 (1 over), Delhi Capitals 8/0 (1 over)

28 April	Sunrisers Hyderabad 171/3 (20 overs)	v	(H) Chennai Super Kings 173/3 (18.3 overs)	Chennai Super Kings won by 7 wickets
19:30 (D/N) Match 6 Scorecard				Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi Umpires: C. K. Nandan (Ind) and Chettithody Shamshuddin (Ind) Player of the match: Ruturaj Gaikwad (Chennai Super Kings)
	Manish Pandey 61 (46) Lungi Ngidi 2/35 (4 overs)		Ruturaj Gaikwad 75 (46) Rashid Khan 3/36 (4 overs)
Sunrisers Hyderabad won the toss and elected to bat.

2 May	(H) Rajasthan Royals 220/3 (20 overs)	v	Sunrisers Hyderabad 165/8 (20 overs)	Rajasthan Royals won by 55 runs
15:30 (D/N) Match 7 Scorecard				Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi Umpires: Chris Gaffaney (NZ) and Chettithody Shamshuddin (Ind) Player of the match: Jos Buttler (Rajasthan Royals)
	Jos Buttler 124 (64) Rashid Khan 1/24 (4 overs)		Manish Pandey 31 (20) Mustafizur Rahman 3/20 (4 overs)
Sunrisers Hyderabad won the toss and elected to field.

22 September	Sunrisers Hyderabad 134/9 (20 overs)	v	Delhi Capitals (H) 139/2 (17.5 overs)	Delhi Capitals won by 8 wickets
19:30 (D/N) Match 8 Scorecard				Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Dubai Umpires: K. N. Ananthapadmanabhan (Ind) and Richard Illingworth (Eng) Player of the match: Anrich Nortje (Delhi Capitals)
	Abdul Samad 28 (21) Kagiso Rabada 3/37 (4 overs)		Shreyas Iyer 47* (41) Rashid Khan 1/26 (4 overs)
Sunrisers Hyderabad won the toss and elected to bat.

25 September	Punjab Kings 125/7 (20 overs)	v	(H) Sunrisers Hyderabad 120/7 (20 overs)	Punjab Kings won by 5 runs
19:30 (D/N) Match 9 Scorecard				Sharjah Cricket Stadium, Sharjah Umpires: Yeshwant Barde (Ind) and Richard Illingworth (Eng) Player of the match: Jason Holder (Sunrisers Hyderabad)
	Aiden Markram 27 (32) Jason Holder 3/19 (4 overs)		Jason Holder 47* (29) Ravi Bishnoi 3/24 (4 overs)
Sunrisers Hyderabad won the toss and elected to field.

27 September	Rajasthan Royals 164/5 (20 overs)	v	Sunrisers Hyderabad (H) 167/3 (18.3 overs)	Sunrisers Hyderabad won by 7 wickets
19:30 (D/N) Match 10 Scorecard				Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Dubai Umpires: K. N. Ananthapadmanabhan (Ind) and Navdeep Singh (Ind) Player of the match: Jason Roy (Sunrisers Hyderabad)
	Sanju Samson 82* (57) Siddarth Kaul 2/36 (4 overs)		Jason Roy 60 (42) Mahipal Lomror 1/22 (3 overs)
Rajasthan Royals won the toss and elected to bat.

30 September	(H) Sunrisers Hyderabad 134/7 (20 overs)	v	Chennai Super Kings 139/4 (19.4 overs)	Chennai Super Kings won by 6 wickets
19:30 (D/N) Match 11 Scorecard				Sharjah Cricket Stadium, Sharjah Umpires: Yeshwant Barde (Ind) and Nitin Menon (Ind) Player of the match: Josh Hazlewood (Chennai Super Kings)
	Wriddhiman Saha 44 (46) Josh Hazlewood 3/24 (4 overs)		Ruturaj Gaikwad 45 (38) Jason Holder 3/27 (4 overs)
Chennai Super Kings won the toss and elected to field.

3 October	Sunrisers Hyderabad 115/8 (20 overs)	v	(H) Kolkata Knight Riders 119/4 (19.4 overs)	Kolkata Knight Riders won by 6 wickets
19:30 (D/N) Match 12 Scorecard				Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Dubai Umpires: Michael Gough (Eng) and Jayaraman Madanagopal (Ind) Player of the match: Shubman Gill (Kolkata Knight Riders)
	Kane Williamson 26 (21) Varun Chakravarthy 2/26 (4 overs)		Shubman Gill 57 (51) Jason Holder 2/32 (4 overs)
Sunrisers Hyderabad won the toss and elected to bat.

6 October	(H) Royal Challengers Bangalore 141/7 (20 overs)	v	Sunrisers Hyderabad 137/6 (20 overs)	Sunrisers Hyderabad won by 4 runs
19:30 (D/N) Match 13 Scorecard				Sharjah Cricket Stadium, Sharjah Umpires: Sundaram Ravi (Ind) and Ulhas Gandhe (Ind) Player of the match: Kane Williamson (Sunrisers Hyderabad)
	Jason Roy 44 (38) Harshal Patel 3/33 (4 overs)		Devdutt Padikkal 41 (52) Umran Malik 1/21 (4 overs)
Royal Challengers Bangalore won the toss and elected to field.

8 October	(H) Sunrisers Hyderabad 235/9 (20 overs)	v	Mumbai Indians 193/8 (20 overs)	Mumbai Indians won by 42 runs
15:30 (D/N) Match 14 Scorecard				Sheikh Zayed Cricket Stadium, Abu Dhabi Umpires: Tapan Sharma (Ind) and Virender Sharma (Ind)
	Ishan Kishan 84 (32) Jason Holder 4/52 (4 overs)		Manish Pandey 69* (41) James Neesham 2/28 (3 overs)
Mumbai Indians won the toss and elected to bat.

No.	Name	Mat	Runs	HS	Ave	SR	Wkts	BBI	Ave	Eco	Ct	St
1	Abdul Samad	11	111	28	12.33	127.58	1	1/9	9.00	9.00	8	–
4	Abhishek Sharma	8	98	33	16.33	130.66	4	2/4	16.00	6.40	2	–
6	Wriddhiman Saha	9	131	44	14.55	93.57	–	–	–	–	6	0
7	Mohammad Nabi	3	34	17	11.33	170.00	2	2/32	43.00	10.75	5	–
8	Virat Singh	3	15	11	7.50	57.69	–	–	–	–	2	–
9	Siddarth Kaul	8	8	7*	–	100.00	7	2/31	35.28	8.23	1	–
11	Priyam Garg	5	72	29	14.40	97.29	–	–	–	–	0	–
15	Bhuvneshwar Kumar	11	34	14*	34.00	113.33	6	1/16	55.83	7.97	0	–
18	Kedar Jadhav	6	55	19	13.75	105.76	–	–	–	–	2	–
19	Rashid Khan	14	83	22	10.37	120.28	18	3/36	20.83	6.69	2	–
20	Jason Roy	5	150	60	30.00	123.96	–	–	–	–	3	–
21	Manish Pandey	8	292	69*	48.66	123.72	–	–	–	–	5	–
22	Kane Williamson	10	266	66*	44.33	113.19	–	–	–	–	7	–
24	Umran Malik	3	–	–	–	–	2	1/21	48.00	8.00	0	–
25	Khaleel Ahmed	7	1	1	1.00	50.00	5	3/21	43.80	8.11	0	–
31	David Warner	8	195	57	24.37	107.73	–	–	–	–	2	–
44	T. Natarajan	2	0	0*	–	–	2	1/32	34.50	8.62	0	–
45	Jagadeesha Suchith	2	14	14*	–	233.33	0	–	–	9.42	1	–
51	Jonny Bairstow	7	248	63*	41.33	141.71	–	–	–	–	2	1
59	Vijay Shankar	7	58	28	11.60	111.53	3	2/19	33.33	9.09	3	–
66	Sandeep Sharma	7	8	8*	8.00	114.28	3	1/20	67.66	8.63	1	–
77	Mujeeb Ur Rahman	1	1	1*	–	100.00	2	2/29	14.50	7.25	0	–
88	Shahbaz Nadeem	1	0	0	0.00	0.00	1	1/36	36.00	9.00	1	–
98	Jason Holder	8	85	47*	14.16	118.05	16	4/52	15.43	7.75	2	–

Man of the Match

No.	Date	Player	Opponent	Venue	Result	Contribution	Ref.
1	21 April 2021	Jonny Bairstow	Punjab Kings	Chennai	Won by 9 wickets	63* (56)	[23]
2	25 September 2021	Jason Holder	Punjab Kings	Sharjah	Lost by 5 runs	3/19 (4 overs) and 47* (29)	[24]
3	27 September 2021	Jason Roy	Rajasthan Royals	Dubai	Won by 7 wickets	60 (42)	[25]
4	6 October 2021	Kane Williamson	Royal Challengers Bangalore	Sharjah	Won by 4 runs	31 (29) and 2 catches	[26]

• Mohammad Nabi became the first player in the IPL history to take five catches in a single match.^[27]

Trevor Bayliss and Brad Haddin stepped down as the head-coach and assistant coach of the Sunrisers Hyderabad following the last-place finish.^[28] VVS Laxman stepped down as mentor to take the job as the Director of Cricket at the National Cricket Academy.^[29] On December 23, 2021, Tom Moody, predecessor to Bayliss, was announced as the head-coach of the Sunrisers Hyderabad for the 2022 Indian Premier League with Simon Katich appointed as the assistant-coach.^[30][31] Dale Steyn, Brian Lara and Hemang Badani were also appointed as pace-bowling, batting and fielding coaches.^[30]

• Sunrisers Hyderabad official website