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Sunrisers Hyderabad best odds

If you’re interested in IPL online betting, most of the sites have the Sunrisers Hyderabad at 13.0 to win the IPL, making them the outsiders of the lot and even bigger odds than the two new teams: the Gujarat Titans and the Lucknow Super Giants.

But if you think SRH can defy expectations and go on to do what Rajasthan did in the inaugural season- win the IPL as rank outsiders- then you’re better off turning to Betway, who with odds of 17.0, are being far more generous than its competitors.

Either way, the bookies clearly don’t fancy SRH this season.

Whether it was the disastrous campaign they had last year, the loss of Rashid Khan in the off season, the decision to appoint Kane Williamson as skipper or the rest of the business they did in the Auction, they’re certainly not fancied to go well.

Let’s see whether all that is justified.

SRH best odds are available at Betway.

Has Sunrisers Hyderabad won the IPL before?

They won it in 2016 after finishing third in the Group Stages. Yeah, that means they had to do it the hard way. They set Kolkata Knight Riders 162 in the Eliminator which proved to be more than enough, winning by 22 runs. They followed that up with a hard-fought win against Gujarat Lions in the Qualifier 2.

Thanks to a well-judged chase of 163 that owed a lot to an excellent 93 not out from the bat of Warner. In the final, their hero came from a somewhat unlikely source, against Royal Challengers Bangalore.

Ben Cutting, who tends to do really well in the Big Bash but has somewhat struggled in the IPL over the years, hit a crucial 39 off 15 batting first and then followed that up by taking two for 35 with the ball, in a man-of-the-match performance.

Warner scored a barely believable 848 runs during the tournament and Bhuvi Kumar and Mustafizur Rahman played their part as well with the ball, Kumar taking 23 wickets and the Bangladeshi claiming 17.

SRH performance 2021

SRH went into the 2021 season in good shape.

An opening partnership of David Warner and Jonny Bairstow was seen as among the most explosive in the competition, Rashid Khan was eyeing up a load of wickets once again and with Bhuvi Kumar back fit, they looked to have plenty of boxes ticked.

But Mitch Marsh pulled out before the season even began, Kane Williamson wasn’t fit for the first few matches and of the seven matches played in India before the IPL was suspended, they lost six of them, including going down in a Super Over against Delhi.

David Warner, short on runs and becoming increasingly frustrated with results, was sacked as captain and replaced by Williamson, with Warner also dropped in the process.

After the Covid-enforced break, Warner returned just for the UAE leg just as a player but was then dropped entirely after two more failures; Bairstow decided not to return and instead focus on preparing for the World Cup.

West Indies all-rounder Jason Holder then got a run in the side and was superb, making you wonder why he hadn’t played all along.

But it was all too little too late, they finished rock bottom with just three wins all season and Tom Moody and Brad Haddin left their jobs as Head Coach and Assistant Coach.

Sunrisers Hyderabad Facts

• SRH was founded in 2012 after Deccan Chargers were suspended by the IPL.
• In their 9 appearances, they have reached the playoffs 6 times. Of those 6, they have reached the final twice and won in 2016.
• David Warner and Jonny Bairstow hold the record for the highest first-wicket partnership in the IPL with 185 runs.
• In 2021 Mohammad Nabi became the first player in the IPL to take five catches in just one match.
• In 2021, four SRH players won man-of-the-match awards and all four were overseas players: Jonny Bairstow, Jason Roy, Jason Holder and Kane Williamson.
• SRH have an awful record against CSK over the years, winning just four out of 14 matches against them.

Captain: Kane Williamson 

The decision to retain Williamson and give him the full-time captaincy may have surprised some. But it shouldn’t have.

Williamson is one of the game’s finest captains in any format, proof of which is how he got New Zealand to two World Cup finals in a row- the ODI one in 2019 and the T20 WC in 2021. As it happens, they lost both, but they defied the odds to even get that far.

With a good cricketing brain, excellent management skills and a fine feel for the game, he’s one of cricket’s skippers who can really make a difference.

As for his ability as a batsman, it’s often been said his scoring is too slow for T20. But the stats paint a very different picture.

His IPL strike rate across 63 matches is 131, which is pretty good indeed. And with 17 fifties across those games and an average of 40, he’s been one of the league’s most consistent batsmen for a while now.