2021 Sunrisers Hyderabad season

The Sunrisers Hyderabad (often abbreviated as SRH) are a franchise cricket team based in Hyderabad, Telangana, which plays in the Indian Premier League (IPL). They were one of the eight teams to compete in the 2021 Indian Premier League, making their ninth appearance in all IPL tournaments. The team was coached by Trevor Bayliss with Brad Haddin as assistant coach, Muttiah Muralitharan as bowling coach and VVS Laxman as mentor.

They began the season with a loss against the Kolkata Knight Riders and failed to qualify for the playoffs finishing eighth at the end of the tournament.

Background
On 15 December 2020, Tom Moody was appointed as the Director of Cricket for Sunrisers Hyderabad. He coached the Sunrisers since its inception in 2013 until the end of 2019 season. The Sunrisers won their only IPL title in 2016 under his charge.

Player acquisition
The Sunrisers Hyderabad retained 22 players and released five players as they announced their retention list on 20 January 2021 ahead of the auction. They will enter into the auction with the remaining salary cap of inr 107500000 to fill minimum of three domestic and one overseas players' slot.

The players' auction took place on 18 February 2021 in Chennai. The Sunrisers acquired services of two domestic players and an overseas player.


 * Retained players: David Warner, Manish Pandey, Kane Williamson, Jonny Bairstow, Wriddhiman Saha, Shreevats Goswami, Priyam Garg, Virat Singh, Rashid Khan, Vijay Shankar, Mohammad Nabi, Abhishek Sharma, Mitchell Marsh, Jason Holder, Abdul Samad, Thangarasu Natarajan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Shahbaz Nadeem, Khaleel Ahmed, Siddarth Kaul, Sandeep Sharma, Basil Thampi


 * Released players: Sanjay Yadav, Bavanaka Sandeep, Billy Stanlake, Fabian Allen, Prithvi Raj


 * Added players: Jagadeesha Suchith, Kedar Jadhav, Mujeeb Ur Rahman


 * Replacement players: Jason Roy, Sherfane Rutherford, Umran Malik

Squad

 * Players with international caps are listed in bold.
 * Year signed denotes the season the player first played for the side

League stage
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 * 1 ||Manish Pandey || 2 || 2 || 1 || 99 || 61* || 99.00 || 83 || 119.27 || 0 || 1 || 0 || 4 || 5
 * 2 ||Jonny Bairstow || 2 || 2 || 0 || 67 || 55 || 33.50 || 53 || 126.41 || 0 || 1 || 0 || 6 || 3
 * 3 ||David Warner || 2 || 2 || 0 || 57 || 54 || 28.50 || 41 || 139.02 || 0 || 1 || 0 || 7 || 1
 * 4 || Kane Williamson ||3||3||1 || 108 || 61* || - || 135.00 || 1 || 0 || 0 || - || 0 || 0
 * 5 ||Abdul Samad || 2 || 2 || 1 || 19 || 19* || 19.00 || 10 || 190.00 || 0 || 0 || 1 || 0 || 2
 * 3 ||David Warner || 2 || 2 || 0 || 57 || 54 || 28.50 || 41 || 139.02 || 0 || 1 || 0 || 7 || 1
 * 4 || Kane Williamson ||3||3||1 || 108 || 61* || - || 135.00 || 1 || 0 || 0 || - || 0 || 0
 * 5 ||Abdul Samad || 2 || 2 || 1 || 19 || 19* || 19.00 || 10 || 190.00 || 0 || 0 || 1 || 0 || 2
 * 5 ||Abdul Samad || 2 || 2 || 1 || 19 || 19* || 19.00 || 10 || 190.00 || 0 || 0 || 1 || 0 || 2
 * 5 ||Abdul Samad || 2 || 2 || 1 || 19 || 19* || 19.00 || 10 || 190.00 || 0 || 0 || 1 || 0 || 2


 * Last updated: 14 April 2021
 * Source: Cricinfo

Most wickets
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 * Last updated: 14 April 2021
 * Source: Cricinfo

Awards

 * Man of the Match

Achievements

 * Mohammad Nabi became the first player in the IPL history to take five catches in a single match.

Reaction
Trevor Bayliss and Brad Haddin stepped down as the head-coach and assistant coach of the Sunrisers Hyderabad following the last-place finish. VVS Laxman stepped down as mentor to take the job as the Director of Cricket at the National Cricket Academy. On December 23, 2021, Tom Moody, predecessor to Bayliss, was announced as the head-coach of the Sunrisers Hyderabad for the 2022 Indian Premier League with Simon Katich appointed as the assistant-coach. Dale Steyn, Brian Lara and Hemang Badani were also appointed as pace-bowling, batting and fielding coaches.