Sunrisers Hyderabad on Thursday appointed South African star batsman Aiden Markram as their new captain for IPL 2023. Sunrisers Hyderabad announced this through their social media handles.
Aiden Markram appointed as captain of Sunrisers Hyderabad, Posting the 38-second video, the franchise wrote the caption, 'The wait is over. Orange Army, say hello to our very own new captain Aiden Markram. The 28-year-old Aiden Markram recently made Sunrisers Eastern Cape the SA20 League champions under his captaincy. Fans were also demanding that Markram be made the captain for IPL 2023 and on Thursday the franchise approved it.
THE. WAIT. IS. OVER. ⏳#OrangeArmy, say hello to our new captain Aiden Markram ?#AidenMarkram #SRHCaptain #IPL2023 | @AidzMarkram pic.twitter.com/3kQelkd8CP
— SunRisers Hyderabad (@SunRisers) February 23, 2023
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Aiden Markram will replace Kane Williamson as the captain of Sunrisers Hyderabad. The performance of Sunrisers Hyderabad last season under the leadership of Kane Williamson was extremely poor. With 6 wins and 8 losses from 14 matches, the Orange Army were at the eighth position in the IPL 2022 points table. Sunrisers Hyderabad and Kolkata Knight Riders were tied on 12 points, but net run rate saw KKR move up one place to seventh.
South African star batsman Aiden Markram has played a total of 20 matches in the IPL so far, in which he has scored 527 runs with the help of three half-centuries. Markram's average was 40.54 while the strike rate was 134.10. He has also taken a wicket.
On the other hand, Markram has so far scored 879 runs in 31 T20 Internationals at an average of 38.21 and a strike rate of 147.73 and with the help of 9 half-centuries. Markram scored 2770 runs in 107 matches in T20 with the help of one century and 21 half-centuries.
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