{"id":548354,"date":"2026-03-18T12:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T12:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/548354\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T12:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T12:45:07","slug":"kishan-to-lead-sunrisers-hyderabad-in-cummins-absence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/548354\/","title":{"rendered":"Kishan to lead Sunrisers Hyderabad in Cummins&#8217; absence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nagraj Gollapudi<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"icon-font-after icon-close-solid-after\" href=\"#\">Close<\/a>Nagraj Gollapudi is news editor at ESPNcricinfo<\/p>\n<p>Multiple Authors<\/p>\n<p>Mar 18, 2026, 10:44 PM<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/ishan-kishan-720471\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ishan Kishan<\/a> will lead <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/team\/sunrisers-hyderabad-628333\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sunrisers Hyderabad<\/a> (SRH) in the early part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/series\/indian-premier-league-2025-26-1510719\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">IPL 2026<\/a>. ESPNcricinfo has learned that the franchise has decided to appoint Kishan as interim captain with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/pat-cummins-489889\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pat Cummins<\/a> recuperating from the lumbar stress issue that ruled him out of Australia&#8217;s T20 World Cup campaign.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/abhishek-sharma-1070183\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Abhishek Sharma<\/a> will serve as Kishan&#8217;s deputy.<\/p>\n<p>It is understood that Cummins will join SRH in Hyderabad on March 23 after getting the clearance from Cricket Australia to play in the IPL. The development comes ten days before the IPL starts, with defending champions Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) facing SRH at the M Chinnaswamy stadium in Bengaluru on March 28.<\/p>\n<p>More to follow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nagraj Gollapudi CloseNagraj Gollapudi is news editor at ESPNcricinfo Multiple Authors Mar 18, 2026, 10:44 PM Ishan Kishan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-548354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}