Sunrisers Hyderabad (earlier Deccan Chargers) represents the Hyderabad-based franchise of the Indian Premier League (IPL). Initially, the captain of the team was V.V.S. Laxman, who led it in the first season. However, from 2009-10, captain was Adam Gilchrist, former Australian Test Cricketer. The team is owned by Kalanithi Maran of the Sun TV channel Network. David Warner is the captain for 2024. Tom Moody former Aussies all-rounder is the head coach and Simon Helmot is the assistant coach of the team. Krish Srikkanth and VVS Laxman are the mentors of the team while Waqar Younis is the bowling coach of the team. Although, initially, Deccan Chargers was amongst the teams considered to be the potential winners, it managed to win only two matches in the tournament, against Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings. The team suffered from the loss of V.V.S. Laxman, because of injury, and Andrew Symonds, because of national commitments in 2008. It has Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium (Hyderabad) and VDCA Stadium (Visakhapatnam) as its home grounds.
Recent Developments
Sunrisers Hyderabad announced that changed its jersey (from beige-black to sparkling silver-blue) and logo as well.
Logo
The logo of Sunrisers Hyderabad comprises of a light grey shield, which a charging bull on it, along with the team's name.
Year wise Team Performance
Year - Position
2013 - Fourth
2014 - Sixth
2015 - Sixth
2016 - Winner
2017 - Fourth
2018 - Runner-up
2019 - Fourth
Sunrisers Hyderabad 2020 full squad
Batsmen:
- Kane Williamson (Captain) - New Zealand
- Manish Pandey - India
- David Warner - Australia
- Virat Singh - India
- Priyam Garg - India
All-rounders
- Mohammad Nabi - Afghanistan
- Abhishek Sharma - India
- Rashid Khan - Afghanistan
- Vijay Shankar - India
- Mitchell Marsh - Australia
- Bavanaka Sandeep - India
- Fabian Allen - West Indies
- Abdul Samad - India
- Sanjay Yadav - India
Wicket-keepers
- Shreevats Goswami - India
- Wriddhiman Saha - India
- Jonny Bairstow - England
Bowlers
- Shahbaz Nadeem - India
- Siddarth Kaul - India
- Bhuvneshwar Kumar - India
- Khaleel Ahmed - India
- Basil Thampi - India
- Billy Stanlake - Australia
- Thangarasu Natarajan - India
- Sandeep Sharma - India
Administration and Support Staffs/Coaches:
- Owner - Kalanithi Maran, Kaviya Maran (SUN Group)
- Head coach - Trevor Bayliss
- Assistant coach - Brad Haddin
- Bowling mentor -Muttiah Muralitharan
- Batting mentor -VVS Laxman
- Physio - Theo Kapakoulakis
- Physical trainer - Mario Villavarayan
- Performance Analyst - Srinivas Chandrasekaran
