The Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise, SunRisers Hyderabad (SRH) are set to welcome star player and New Zealand skipper, Kane Williamson to their squad in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Williamson posted a picture on his official Instagram handle, sitting in a plane next to his Kiwi teammate, Jimmy Neesham, who will be appearing for the Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) in IPL 2020.

The Black Caps skipper wrote that he was looking forward to “catching up” with the SRH squad. Captioning the picture on Instagram, “First trip in a while! ?? Looking forward to catching up with the Orange army.”

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SunRisers Hyderabad shared the picture on their official Twitter handle and captioned it as, “Look who’s on his way to UAE”.

Look who's on his way to UAE 😍🧡#OrangeArmy #IPL2020 pic.twitter.com/ULHyOXOLps

— SunRisers Hyderabad (@SunRisers) September 3, 2020

Before leaving for the UAE, Williamson had spoken about his “apprehension” of playing the tournament after 13 members of the Chennai Super Kings camp tested positive for coronavirus, out of which two were players.

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As per the quotes in PTI, Williamson said, “That’s part of the reason why they made every team stay at a different hotel. Obviously there’s a little bit of apprehension, certainly as you get nearer to the time. Now it’s two days out you start thinking you do have to be extremely vigilant and disciplined.”

He further added, “But obviously that’s bad news. You don’t want to hear anybody has COVID. I hear they are predominantly asymptomatic so hopefully, through another lockdown period they can come through and will be okay.”

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Jimmy Neesham will be joining the KXIP, while Mitchell McClenaghan and Trent Boult will be playing for Mumbai Indians, Lockie Ferguson is part of the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) squad, while Mitchell Santner will be playing under the captaincy of MS Dhoni in Chennai Super Kings.