Former India player turned veteran commentator Aakash Chopra isn’t impressed with the SunRisers Hyderabad’s decision to appoint Pat Cummins as their skipper for IPL 2024. However, SRH bought Cummins for a whopping ₹20.50 crore at the IPL 2024 auction last year and recently named the Australian Test and ODI captain as their captain for the upcoming edition of the prestigious league.

In a video shared on his YouTube channel, Chopra said, “You have made Pat Cummins the captain but have you seen his recent IPL numbers? Check attentively, he concedes a lot of runs and doesn’t score that many runs with the bat. Only four overseas players play. He neither bowls in the powerplay nor at the death.”

The former India opener further added that the Australian seamer doesn’t get a guaranteed place in the XI and he doesn’t captain his national side in the T20 format.

“If he is not going to do all those jobs, you are spending 25% of your overseas resources on a player whose place in the XI was not 100% guaranteed in the IPL. That is why Pat Cummins is not the captain of the team where 11 Australians play, although he has won the World Cup, but not T20,” Aakash Chopra again stated.

“There is a player named Aiden Markram who benefitted the SunRisers franchise a lot. He made the SunRisers Eastern Cape the champions for two successive years in the SA20 league. However, he has been removed from the captaincy here. He captained one year in total where I felt there was a lot of confusion. He didn’t know what was happening. He was asked at times where Umran Malik was and he replied he wasn’t aware and that the person who made the team should be asked about it. That is where he was but he has been sidelined now,” Aakash Chopra concluded.