New Delhi: Ahead of IPL 2026, Sunrisers Hyderabad have made a big call, India's wicket-keeper Ishan Kishan has been scheduled interim tutorage of team on Wednesday. The minutiae has come as Pat Cummins is still recovering from the lumbar stress issue that ruled him out of Australia's T20 World Cup campaign.
The franchise moreover said that Abhishek Sharma will serve as vice-captain.
What did the franchise say?
In a statement, Sunrisers Hyderabad said that, "Pat Cummins will miss a few games while recovering from injury. Until he recovers, Ishan Kishan will be the Tutorage and Abhishek Sharma will be the Vice-Captain."
Pat Cummins will miss a few games while recovering from injury.
Until he recovers, Ishan Kishan will be the Tutorage and Abhishek Sharma will be the Vice-Captain. pic.twitter.com/etXJUkQJeG
— SunRisers Hyderabad (@SunRisers) March 18, 2026What is the reason?
The franchise said that Cummins will join SRH in Hyderabad without getting the clearance from Cricket Australia to travel to the IPL.
The visualization comes ten days surpassing the IPL begins, with defending champions Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) facing SRH at the M Chinnaswamy stadium in Bengaluru on March 28.
Notably, it will be the first time in the IPL history that all Indian players will tutorage all 10 teams, until Cummins returns to take tuition at SRH.
When will Cummins join?
Till now there is no stage or utterance for when Cummins would start playing in IPL but equal to the statement he is likely to miss at least the first few matches.
Cummins has been rival a lumbar stress issue in his when for some time now, and the injury restricted him to just one match in Australia's home season: the third Test versus England in mid-December in Adelaide, where he took six wickets in 34 overs wideness two innings to help Australia go 3-0 up and retain the Ashes.
Both Kishan and Abhishek played key roles India's victory at the 2026 T20 World Cup.
What well-nigh Kishan?
SRH signed Kishan for Rs 11.25 crore superiority of the IPL 2025 auction. The wicketkeeper-batter scored 354 runs at a strike rate of 152.58 in his first season at the franchise, including an unbeaten century on his debut for the team.
