IPL 2026: Big good news for Sunrisers Hyderabad, captain Pat Cummins will come to India on this day

IPL 2026: The new season of IPL is about to start in just a few days. Before the start of the tournament, good news is coming for the franchise. According to the information coming out quoting Cricbuzz, team captain Pat Cummins is reaching Bengaluru on Tuesday 24 March. However, Captain Cummins will not be able to captain the team in the first few matches and Ishan Kishan will be seen captaining him in his place. This has also been officially announced by the franchise. After the bad last season, fans will have big expectations from the team this season.

On which day will SRH play the first match?

Sunrisers Hyderabad team is going to play the opening match of IPL 2026. The team’s first match will be against RCB at M Chinnaswamy Stadium. For this, the team captain will reach Bengaluru on March 24 and the players of the rest of the team will also be expected to reach there.

🚨 Pat Cummins will reach Bengaluru on Tuesday, March 24 ahead of #IPL2026

Ishan Kishan, SRH’s stand-in captain for the first few games, will attend the captains’ meeting in Mumbai on March 25 pic.twitter.com/zPxZfWDofA

— Cricbuzz (@cricbuzz) March 23, 2026

Along with this, in the report of Cricbuzz, it has been told by the franchise that Ishan Kishan will be seen in the captains’ photoshoot on March 25 in Mumbai. In this meeting, captains of 10 teams will arrive for a photoshoot with the trophy. According to the information, the photoshoot will start at 12 o’clock and the meeting will start at 4:30 pm.

Fans will hope for stormy batting

Sunrisers team is known for its explosive batting in IPL. There are many explosive batting players in the team who are known for scoring runs in a stormy manner. Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma will play as the opening batsmen of the team while Ishan Kishan will show his strength at number three. After this, the team will have players like Nitish Reddy and Liam Livingstone in the middle order. Apart from this, the team also has young batsmen like Aniket Verma and Salil Arora who are known for their explosive batting.

SRH full squad

Pat Cummins (captain), Travis Head, Aniket Verma, S Ravichandran, Abhishek Sharma, Nitish Reddy, Kamindu Mendis, Liam Livingstone, Harsh Dubey, Shivang Kumar, Ishan Kishan (stand-in captain and wicketkeeper), Heinrich Klaasen (wicketkeeper), Salil Arora (wicketkeeper), Brayden Carse, Ishan Malinga, Jaydev Unadkat, Harshal Patel, Zeeshan Ansari, Saqib Hussain, Omkar Tukaram Tarmale, Amit Kumar, Praful Hinge, Cryans Phuletra, Shivam Mavi.

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