sunrisers hyderabad team 2018 Sun replace David Warner with Alex Hales

 sunrisers hyderabad team 2018 Sun replace David Warner with Alex Hales

Alex Hales, England’s explosive opener, has been picked by the SunRisers Hyderabad as replacement for David Warner. The batsman was bought for his base price of INR 1 crore from the Registered and Available Player Pool (RAPP) list, a BCCI release stated on Saturday (March 31).

Having lost their otherwise captain, Warner, to the ball-tampering scandal in South Africa which subsequently had him banned from the Indian Premier League 2018 by the BCCI along with Steve Smith, Sunrisers named Kane Williamson to take over the reins. However, to fulfill the role of an opener that Warner would’ve fulfilled along side Shikhar Dhawan, SRH decided to pick Hales, who is the first and only English player till date to score a T20I century.

Warner’s loss will be a massive void to fill for the franchise given that the Australian opener had been a vital cog in SRH’s fortunes over the years. He not just scored 2579 runs in 59 innings at a whopping average of 52.63 and an enviable strike-rate of 147.70, but also led Sunrisers to title glory in 2016. Thus, it was no wonder that the Sunrisers had used their Right-to-Match card to retain Warner.

Hales, whose limited-overs exploits are no secret, is the only Englishman to feature in the top 10 list of the ICC T20I rankings. He has 1456 runs in 52 T20Is, averaging 31.65 with a strike-rate of 136.32. He wasn’t snapped up by any of the IPL teams, going unsold in the auction earlier in the year. While fellow countrymen like Ben Stokes, Jos Buttler, Chris Woakes and Sam Billings attracted lucrative deals, there was no substantial interest for Hales. However, this is not the first time Hales will be seen in the IPL, having earlier played for Mumbai Indians in the 2015 edition. Back then as well, he had come in as a replacement, filling in for the injured Corey Anderson.

For Islamabad United in the recently-concluded Pakistan Super League, barring a score of 46 in his opening game of the tournament, he had a lean run, unable to cross the 20-run mark.

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