IPL 2026: SRH head coach Daniel Vettori lauds Ishan Kishan as a leader

Daniel Vettori

Head coach Daniel Vettori (below) on Friday said that the Sunrisers Hyderabad team management had little hesitation in handing over the stand-in captain's job to Ishan Kishan as he proved to be a "confident player and leader."

Regular skipper Pat Cummins will miss the early stages of IPL-19, owing to a back injury. "Ishan has been with a number of teams and he's been highly successful, so he brings in his own confidence around that," Vettori said in the pre-match press meet on Friday.

"The fact that he's led the U-19s and his state team and they won the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy this year brings a confident person, a confident player and a really confident leader and those are the attributes that we really looked at when he was appointed," he added.

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