Daniel Vettori named new Sunrisers Hyderabad head coach
New Zealand’s Daniel Vettori has changed Brian Lara as the top coach of Sunrisers Hyderabad within the IPL. Vettori was beforehand head coach at Royal Challengers Bangalore, from 2014 to 2018, and is presently additionally assistant coach with the Australia males’s workforce.
The newest replace means Sunrisers may have a fourth head coach in six seasons, with Tom Moody (2019 and 2022), Trevor Bayliss (2020 and 2021), and Lara (2023) previous Vettori. Lara had changed Moody forward of the 2023 IPL season, however the aspect completed final (tenth) with 4 wins and ten losses.
Right now, Vettori is head coach of the Birmingham Phoenix males’s workforce on the Hundred, and since May 2022 has been with the Australia males’s nationwide aspect. His teaching resume additionally consists of head teaching stints with Barbados Royals within the CPL, Brisbane Heat within the Big Bash and Middlesex within the Vitality Blast, alongside spin-bowling consultancy roles with Bangladesh.
In his earlier stint as an IPL head coach, Vettori helped RCB get into the playoffs in 2015 and the ultimate in 2016 the place, by the way, they misplaced to Sunrisers. This is now the third high-profile coaching-related announcement within the IPL forward of the 2024 season, with Justin Langer taking over from Andy Flower at Lucknow Super Giants and Flower subsequently joining RCB in the identical position.
Since IPL 2021, they’ve gained solely 13 video games whereas dropping 29. From 2016 (once they have been champions) to 2020, Sunrisers reached the playoff each season, however have failed to copy that success since. They at the moment are hoping to finish a three-season streak of ending exterior the highest 4 underneath Vettori and, because it stands, are presently captained by Aiden Markram of South Africa.