IPL 2018: Can Sunrisers Hyderabad replace David Warner? Tom Moody says yes!

Tom MoodyBanned Australian opener David Warners ouster from Sunrisers Hyderabad had very little impact on the team said head coach Tom Moody who believes they have a well balanced squad with enough depth to replace the former captain Sunrisers Hyderabad had to replace their regular skipper Warner with New Zealand captain Kane Williamson after BCCI barred the former Australian vicecaptain from IPL 11 following the oneyear ban imposed by Cricket Australia for his role in the ball tampering scandal in South Africa Very little to be honest with youMoody told reporters when asked about the impact of change in captaincy in a short notice on the team We have a very well balanced squad where we have a number of different people that can fill different roles within the team We are replacing a good captain in David Warner who was vice captain of the Australian team with another international captain Kane Williamson he said Moody said the team managed to get the depth and balance it wanted during the IPL players auctionThe success we had in the auction we managed to get the depth and balance that we wanted Therefore losing an impact player like David Warner we have managed to fill we can still get the balance we want still have the impact that we want in the top six We are pretty comfortable and to be honest with you there is nothing we can do about what happened with David Warner We have moved on from there he said Moody hailed Williamson for his leadership qualities as captain of the New Zealand team We are delighted to have Kane step in as captain this year We have all seen what he is capable of doing with his leadership with New Zealand he saidWilliamson is strategically very sound and played an important role in Sunrisers Hyderabad over the last few years SRH today welcomed its new players in the presence of Moody the team mentor VVS Laxman bowling coach Muttaiah Muralitharan vice captain Bhuvneshwar Kumar and others at an event here The new additions to the SRH side are Alex Hales T Natarajan Shreevats Goswami Wriddhiman Saha Syed Khaleel Ahmed Manish Pandey Yusuf Pathan Basil Thampi Sachin Baby Sandeep Sharma Syed Mehdi Hasan Billy Stanlake Carlos Braithwaite and Shakib Al HasanLaxman said an effort has been made to address the concerns over the sides middle order batting during the last few years You talked about this four five top class batsman But there is lot of depth in the batting line up and thats something which was a conscious effort going into the auction he said Because over the last two three years we were not really happy that our middle order that they did not play to the expectations that is something which we consciously focused on targeting players who can do well as a batsmen The team this year has got players who can do well in the middle overs and players who can finish games Muralitharan said the team has a formidable spin attack with the presence of players such as Rashid Khan Bipul Sharma and Shakib Al HasanCatch up on all the latest IPL news and updates here Also download the new midday Android and iOS apps to get latest updatesThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever