Kane Williamson will lead Sunrisers Hyderabad during Indian Premier League 2018, the team announced on Thursday. The New Zealand captain will replace David Warner as the skipper of the side. SRH were forced to name a new captain after Warner stepped down and was later banned from playing the 11th edition of IPL alongwith Australia captain Steve Smith in the wake of the ball-tampering scandal that broke out last week. The IPL 2018 begins from April 7 but Warner and Smith will not be part of it as BCCI banned them from the tournament after consulting Cricket Australia, which has banned its two players for 12 months in the aftermath of the ball-tampering incident.
Australian cricketers Smith and Warner were banned for one year by Cricket Australia on Wednesday for ball tampering during their South African series. Subsequently, they are also banned from playing in IPL by the Committee of Administrators in consultation with the BCCI office-bearers.
Sunrisers Hyderabad Squad: Kane Williamson (C), Shikhar Dhawan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Manish Pandey, Rashid Khan Arman, Wriddhiman Saha, Siddarth Kaul, Deepak Hooda, Syed Khaleel Ahmed, Sandeep Sharma, Carlos Brathwaite, Shakib Al Hasan, Yusuf Pathan, Shreevats Goswami, Mohammad Nabi, Chris Jordan, Basil Thampi, T Natarajan, Sachin Baby, Bipul Sharma, Syed Mehdi Hasan, Ricky Bhui, Tanmay Agarwal.