2018 Sunrisers Hyderabad season

Sunrisers Hyderabad
2018 season
CoachTom Moody
CaptainKane Williamson
Ground(s)Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium, Hyderabad
(Capacity: 38,000)[1]
IPLRunners-up
Most runsKane Williamson (735)
Most wicketsRashid Khan (21)
Siddarth Kaul (21)
Most catchesShikhar Dhawan (12)
Most wicket-keeping dismissalsWriddhiman Saha (6)

Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) are a franchise cricket team based in Hyderabad, Telangana, India, which plays in the Indian Premier League (IPL). They were one of the eight teams that competed in the 2018 Indian Premier League, making their sixth appearance in all IPL tournaments. The team was captained by Kane Williamson and coached by Tom Moody with Simon Helmot as assistant coach, Muttiah Muralitharan as bowling coach and V. V. S. Laxman as mentor.

They began their season by winning their opening fixture on 9 April, and went on to become the first team to qualify for the play-offs on 10 May. They beat the Kolkata Knight Riders in Qualifier 2 to reach the Final where they lost to the Chennai Super Kings by eight wickets to finish the season as runners-up. Williamson won the Orange Cap for scoring 735 runs in the IPL season.[2]

A man playing a shot wearing New Zealand Test jersey
Kane Williamson was appointed as the captain of Sunrisers for 2018 IPL
  1. ^ "Hyderabad cops pad up for IPL mania". The Hindu. 7 April 2018. Archived from the original on 6 August 2018. Retrieved 2 July 2018.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference IPLAwards was invoked but never defined (see the help page).