| Club: | Sunrisers Hyderabad |
| Season: | 2021 |
| Coach: | Trevor Bayliss |
| Captain: | David Warner Kane Williamson Manish Pandey |
| Ground: | Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium, Hyderabad |
| Comp1: | IPL |
| Comp1 Result: | League stage (8th) |
| Prevseason: | 2020 |
| Nextseason: | 2022 |
| Most Runs: | Manish Pandey (292) |
| Most Wickets: | Rashid Khan (18) |
| Most Catches: | Abdul Samad (8) |
| Most Dismissals: | Wriddhiman Saha (6) |
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.[1]
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.[2] [3]
On 15 December 2020, Tom Moody was appointed as the Director of Cricket for Sunrisers Hyderabad.[4] [5] 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.[4]
See main article: List of 2021 Indian Premier League personnel changes. The Sunrisers Hyderabad retained 22 players and released five players as they announced their retention list on 20 January 2021 ahead of the auction.[6] [7] They will enter into the auction with the remaining salary cap of to fill minimum of three domestic and one overseas players' slot.[8] [9]
The players' auction took place on 18 February 2021 in Chennai.[10] The Sunrisers acquired services of two domestic players and an overseas player.[11]
| No. | Name | Nationality | Birth date | Batting style | Bowling style | Year signed | Salary[12] | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Batsmen | |||||||||
| 1 | April 11, 2021 | Right-handed | 2020 | ||||||
| 8 | April 11, 2021 | Left-handed | Right-arm leg spin | 2020 | |||||
| 11 | April 11, 2021 | Right-handed | 2020 | ||||||
| 18 | Kedar Jadhav | April 11, 2021 | Right-handed | 2021 | |||||
| 20 | Jason Roy | April 11, 2021 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium | 2021 | Overseas, Replacement for Marsh.[13] | |||
| 21 | Manish Pandey | April 11, 2021 | Right-handed | 2018 | |||||
| 22 | Kane Williamson | April 11, 2021 | Right-handed | Right-arm off break | 2015 | Captain, Overseas | |||
| 31 | David Warner | April 11, 2021 | Left-handed | Right-arm leg break | 2014 | Overseas | |||
| All-rounders | |||||||||
| 4 | April 11, 2021 | Left-handed | 2019 | ||||||
| 5 | Mitchell Marsh | April 11, 2021 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | 2020 | Overseas. Pulled out on 31 March for personal reasons. | |||
| 7 | Mohammad Nabi | April 11, 2021 | Right-handed | Right-arm off break | 2017 | Overseas | |||
| 59 | Vijay Shankar | April 11, 2021 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | 2019 | Isolated as primary contact for COVID-19. | |||
| 98 | Jason Holder | April 11, 2021 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast | 2020 | Overseas | |||
| Sherfane Rutherford | April 11, 2021 | Left-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | 2021 | Overseas, Replacement for Bairstow.[14] Pulled out on 23 September for personal reasons.[15] | ||||
| Wicket-keepers | |||||||||
| 6 | Wriddhiman Saha | April 11, 2021 | Right-handed | 2018 | |||||
| 36 | April 11, 2021 | Left-handed | 2018 | ||||||
| 51 | Jonny Bairstow | April 11, 2021 | Right-handed | 2019 | Overseas. Pulled out on 11 September owing to bubble fatigue.[16] | ||||
| Bowlers | |||||||||
| 9 | Siddarth Kaul | April 11, 2021 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | 2016 | ||||
| 15 | Bhuvneshwar Kumar | April 11, 2021 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | 2014 | ||||
| 19 | Rashid Khan | April 11, 2021 | Right-handed | Right-arm leg break | 2017 | Overseas | |||
| 24 | April 11, 2021 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | 2021 | Short-term replacement for Natarajan.[17] | ||||
| 25 | Khaleel Ahmed | April 11, 2021 | Right-handed | Left-arm medium-fast | 2018 | ||||
| 30 | April 11, 2021 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | 2018 | |||||
| 44 | T. Natarajan | April 11, 2021 | Left-handed | Left-arm medium-fast | 2018 | Pulled out on 22 April due to knee injury[18] and returned for UAE leg. Tested positive for COVID-19 on 22 September.[19] | |||
| 45 | April 11, 2021 | Left-handed | Left-arm orthodox | 2021 | |||||
| 66 | Sandeep Sharma | April 11, 2021 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | 2018 | ||||
| 77 | Mujeeb Ur Rahman | April 11, 2021 | Right-handed | Right-arm off break | 2021 | Overseas | |||
| 88 | Shahbaz Nadeem | April 11, 2021 | Right-handed | Left-arm orthodox | 2019 | ||||
| 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: | ||
| No. | Date | Player | Opponent | Venue | Result | Contribution | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Won by 9 wickets | 63 (56) | [21] | |||||
| Punjab Kings | Lost by 5 runs | 3/19 (4 overs) and 47 (29) | [22] | ||||
| Won by 7 wickets | 60 (42) | [23] | |||||
| Sharjah | Won by 4 runs | 31 (29) and 2 catches | [24] | ||||
Trevor Bayliss and Brad Haddin stepped down as the head-coach and assistant coach of the Sunrisers Hyderabad following the last-place finish.[26] VVS Laxman stepped down as mentor to take the job as the Director of Cricket at the National Cricket Academy.[27] 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.[28] Dale Steyn, Brian Lara and Hemang Badani were also appointed as pace-bowling, batting and fielding coaches.[29]