From Skepticism to Success: Inside Hyderabad’s Dominant Performance Under Captain Pat Cummins
Straight into the roof of the net. Nice one. Straight down the middle. So a good performance on both teams here. Hi, Let’s get started. The sports fan
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And is Pat Cummins the new Messiah for Hyderabad? The team that has had a woeful last three years at the Indian Premier League has suddenly started playing like a brand new franchise. Cummins has charmed everyone even as the booze couldnt stop raining on Hardik Pandya.
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Well not unless hes a superstar whos had great rapper with say an indian legend like Shane Warne or its someone unbelievably cute and talented like Elisa Perry or Meg Laning. Its not about the superficiality no Aussies are the second rivals to India right after Pakistan so its pretty much war. You can possibly admire their skills from a distance, a fair distance, but you cannot really like them and worse become a fan.
Which is why a lot of us were skeptical when Hyderabad franchise decided to spend so much on someone like Pat Cummins. You knew he would be made captain. An Aussie captain and there is some reason for that apart from an indian captain
Aussies have been the most successful three IPL titles by Aussie captains. So yes, makes sense. But after Pat Cummins vowed to silence the indian fans at Ahmedabad and that heartbreaking defeat in the final of the Cricket World Cup, Pat Cummins was definitely a marked man
. So the road ahead was already steep and helming a franchise that has finished at the bottom or near about of the points table over the last three years. Cummins had his hands full that narrow loss in the first game despite a few good performances. Again reiterating the point, but what a fantastic turnaround it was at home against Mumbai Indians records tumbled.
Hyderabad worked up a storm won at home after what felt like ages and the batters were monstrous. Lets get the records out of the way then shall we? Most run scored in a single IPL match in the history of the league. 523 between both the sides.
Highest ever individual team total scored 277 for three. Thats what Hyderabad scored batting first. Most sixes hit in a single game 38 1st batting pair to complete fifties in less than 20 balls.
That was Abhishek Sharma and Travis head for Hyderabad it was not a great night if you were a bowler but Hyderabad played like a new brand of cricket, attacking and impactful. They recognized their strength which is their batting. Kept a flat deck and piled on the agony.
They brought in Travis head and he and Abhishek Sharma unleashed mayhem and when that was halted, Aidan Markram and Hendrik Claasen dug in an annihilated the Mumbai attack. Klassen proving to have the season proving to be consistent and deadly this season. A super combination. It was going to be difficult.