2017 Sunrisers Hyderabad season explained

Club:	Sunrisers Hyderabad
Season:	2017
Coach:	Tom Moody
Captain:	David Warner
Ground:	Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium, Hyderabad (Capacity: 55,000)
Comp1:	IPL
Comp1 Result:	Playoffs (4th)
Prevseason:	2016
Nextseason:	2018
Most Runs:	David Warner (641)
Most Wickets:	Bhuvneshwar Kumar (26)
Most Catches:	David Warner (10)
Most Dismissals:	Naman Ojha (6)

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]

Player acquisition

See main article: List of 2017 Indian Premier League personnel changes.

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 ^[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 .^[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			April 5, 2017	Right-handed		2017
22	Kane Williamson		April 5, 2017	Right-handed		2015		Overseas.
25	Shikhar Dhawan		April 5, 2017	Left-handed		2013
31	David Warner		April 5, 2017	Left-handed		2014		Captain, Overseas.
32			April 5, 2017	Right-handed		2014
All-rounders
5	Moisés Henriques		April 5, 2017	Right-handed		2014		Overseas.
7	Mohammad Nabi		April 5, 2017	Right-handed		2017		Overseas.
12	Yuvraj Singh		April 5, 2017	Left-handed		2016
14			April 5, 2017	Right-handed		2016
28			April 5, 2017	Left-handed		2015
30	Ben Cutting		April 5, 2017	Right-handed		2016		Overseas.
59			April 5, 2017	Right-handed		2016
Wicket-keepers
53	Naman Ojha		April 5, 2017	Right-handed		2014
54			April 5, 2017	Right-handed		2017
Bowlers
9			April 5, 2017	Right-handed		2016
13			April 5, 2017	Right-handed		2017
15	Bhuvneshwar Kumar		April 5, 2017	Right-handed		2014
19	Rashid Khan		April 5, 2017	Right-handed		2017		Overseas.
21	Abhimanyu Mithun		April 5, 2017	Right-handed		2016
34	Chris Jordan		April 5, 2017	Right-handed		2017		Overseas.
51	Barinder Sran		April 5, 2017	Left-handed		2016
64	Ashish Nehra		April 5, 2017	Right-handed		2016
90	Mustafizur Rahman		April 5, 2017	Left-handed		2016		Overseas.
91	Ben Laughlin		April 5, 2017	Right-handed		2017		Overseas.
92			April 5, 2017	Right-handed		2017

Administration and support staff

Position	Name
Owner	Kalanithi Maran (Sun Network)
CEO	K Shanmughan
Head coach	Tom Moody
Assistant coach	Simon Helmot
Bowling coach	Muttiah Muralitharan
Mentor	V. V. S. Laxman
Physio	Theo Kapakoulakis
Source:^[6]

Kit manufacturers and sponsors

Opening ceremony

See main article: article. 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]

Season overview

League stage

Standings

Results by match

Playoff stage

Fixtures

League stage

See main article: article.

Playoff Stage

See main article: article.

Eliminator

Statistics

Name	Mat	Runs	HS	Ave	SR	Wkts	BBI	Ave	Eco	Ct	St
Shikhar Dhawan	14	479	77	36.84	127.39	-	-	-	-	7	0
David Warner	14	641	126	58.27	141.81	-	-	-	-	10	0
Kane Williamson	7	256	89	42.66	151.47	-	-	-	-	1	0
Moisés Henriques	12	277	55*	46.16	136.45	1	1/6	248.00	10.33	5	0
Yuvraj Singh	12	252	70*	28.00	142.37	1	1/6	22.00	11.00	3	0
	10	78	19*	26.00	150.00	2	1/7	21.00	10.50	5	0
	4	101	63*	50.50	134.66	-	-	-	-	1	0
Naman Ojha	14	79	34	19.75	121.53	-	-	-	-	6	0
Ben Cutting	4	51	20	25.50	196.15	1	-	123.00	9.71	1	0
Chris Jordan	1	0	0*	0.00	0.00	1	1/9	9.00	9.00	1	0
	6	31	21*	31.00	138.09	3	1/4	43.00	7.89	1	0
Mohammad Nabi	3	2	2	2.00	66.66	2	1/13	29.00	5.27	0	0
Bhuvneshwar Kumar	14	4	4*	4.00	100.00	26	5/19	14.19	7.05	4	0
Rashid Khan	14	11	6*	5.50	122.22	17	3/19	21.05	6.62	5	0
Ashish Nehra	6	0	0*	-	0.00	8	3/42	24.62	9.30	1	0
Mustafizur Rahman	1	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-	-	-	0	-	-	12.75	0	0
Barinder Sran	1	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-	-	-	0	-	-	14.50	0	0
	10	0	0*	-	0.00	16	4/29	18.75	8.41	3	0
	6	style="text-align:center;"	-	style="text-align:center;"	-	-	-	10	2/26	21.20	9.21	1	0

Full Table on ESPNcricinfo

Last updated: 19 May 2017

Awards and achievements

Awards

Man of the Match

No.	Date	Player	Opponent	Venue	Result	Contribution	Ref.
					Won by 35 Runs	62 (27)	^[8]
				Hyderabad	Won by 9 Wickets	3/19 (4 Overs)	^[9]
				Hyderabad	Won by 5 Runs	5/19 (4 Overs)	^[10]
				Hyderabad	Won by 15 Runs	89(51)	^[11]
		Rashid Khan	Kings XI Punjab		Won by 26 Runs	1/16 (4 Overs)	^[12]
				Hyderabad	Won by 48 Runs	126 (59)	^[13]
				Hyderabad	Won by 7 Wickets	62 (46)	^[14]
					Won by 8 Wickets	4/32 (4 overs)	^[15]

Season Awards

• Winner of Orange Cap: David Warner^{[16] [17]}
• Winner of Purple Cap: Bhuvneshwar Kumar^[18]
• Vitara Brezza Glam Shot of the year: Yuvraj Singh^[19]

Achievements

• Second team after Chennai Super Kings in 2013 Indian Premier League to win both Orange Cap and Purple Cap.
• Warner becomes the First player to score 100+ as a captain and also for SRH
• Warner scores the highest score as a captain in all the IPL seasons.
• Most fours scored in the 2017 IPL: Warner (63)^[20]
• Fastest century in the 2017 IPL: Warner (43 balls)^[21]
• Highest score in the 2017 IPL: Warner (126)^[22]
• Most four wickets in the 2017 IPL: Siddarth Kaul (1)^[23]

Reaction

The 2017 season performances helped the IPL see its brand value jump by 26% to the estimated value of 5.3 billion. The SunRisers also saw the increase in their brand value by 37% to 56 million in 2017, according to Duff & Phelps.^[24]

See also

• List of Sunrisers Hyderabad records

External links

• Sunrisers Hyderabad official website

Notes and References

1. Web site: IPL 2017 Team Captains & Coaches: List of Support Staff for all Teams of VIVO Indian Premier League 10th Edition . india.com. 26 October 2017.
2. Web site: IPL 2017: David Warner wins Orange Cap, Bhuvneshwar Kumar takes Purple Cap . firstpost.com. 26 October 2017.
3. Web site: List of players released and retained by IPL teams ahead of the 2017 auction . ESPNcricinfo. 19 December 2016.
4. Web site: IPL player auction set for February 20. ESPNcricinfo. 3 February 2017. 3 February 2017.
5. Web site: IPL player auction 2017: Complete list of players sold and unsold. Financial Express. 20 February 2017. 6 October 2021.
6. Web site: IPL 2017 Team Captains & Coaches: List of Support Staff for all Teams of VIVO Indian Premier League 10th Edition . india.com. 26 October 2017.
7. News: Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, Virender Sehwag felicitated during IPL T20 opening. 2017-04-05. hindustantimes. 2017-04-07.
8. Web site: Gopalakrishnan. Arun. MATCH REPORT: M1 – SRH V RCB. IPLT20. 5 April 2017. 8 October 2021.
9. Web site: Gopalakrishnan. Arun. MATCH REPORT: M6 – SRH V GL. IPLT20. 9 April 2017. 8 October 2021.
10. Web site: Gopalakrishnan. Arun. MATCH REPORT: M19 – SRH V KXIP. IPLT20. 17 April 2017. 8 October 2021.
11. Web site: Gopalakrishnan. Arun. MATCH REPORT: M21 – SRH V DD. IPLT20. 19 April 2017. 8 October 2021.
12. Web site: Gopalakrishnan. Arun. MATCH REPORT: M33 – KXIP V SRH. IPLT20. 28 April 2017. 8 October 2021.
13. Web site: Gopalakrishnan. Arun. MATCH REPORT: M37 – SRH V KKR. IPLT20. 30 April 2017. 8 October 2021.
14. Web site: Gopalakrishnan. Arun. MATCH REPORT: M48 – SRH V MI. IPLT20. 8 May 2017. 8 October 2021.
15. Web site: Gopalakrishnan. Arun. MATCH REPORT: M53 – GL V SRH. IPLT20. 13 May 2017. 8 October 2021.
16. Web site: Most Runs scored in IPL 2017. IPLT20. 21 May 2017. 8 October 2021. en.
17. Web site: IPL 2017: David Warner wins Orange Cap, Ben Stokes Most Valuable Player, list of IPL awards. indianexpress. 27 November 2017.
18. Web site: Most Runs scored in IPL 2017. IPLT20. 21 May 2017. 8 October 2021. en.
19. Web site: IPL 2017: The full-list of award winners and their prize money. sportsrush. 27 November 2017.
20. Web site: Most Fours scored in IPL 2017. IPLT20. 21 May 2017. 8 October 2021. en.
21. Web site: Fastest century scored in IPL 2017. IPLT20. 21 May 2017. 8 October 2021. en.
22. Web site: Highest Individual score in IPL 2017. IPLT20. 21 May 2017. 8 October 2021. en.
23. Web site: Most Four wickets in IPL 2017. IPLT20. 21 May 2017. 8 October 2021. en.
24. News: Laghate. Gaurav. Brand IPL gets stronger, valuation soars to $5.3 billion. 4 April 2019. The Economic Times. 24 August 2017.