Kiwi star batsman Kane Williamson hasn’t found a place in the playing XI for the Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) in their opening game of the IPL 2021 season against the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR).
The Sunrisers Hyderabad have once again made some surprising selections with regards to their four overseas players in the playing XI for this first game. In a massive update, New Zealand skipper Kane Williamson has not been included in the playing XI and the likes of skipper David Warner, Jonny Bairstow, Mohammad Nabi and Rashid Khan are their four overseas players. Williamson’s exclusion surely comes as a huge surprise as he played impressively well for SRH last year having scored 317 runs in 12 matches at an average of 45.28.
Trevor Bayliss (Coach of SRH) has revealed the reason why Williamson did not feature in the playing XI. Bayliss reckoned that Williamson needs more time to get match fit and that seems to be the reason why he did not play at Chennai on Sunday. The SRH coach also said that the NZ captain needs more time in the nets.
After the game Bayliss said , “We just felt that Kane needed a little bit of extra time to get match fit and a little bit more time in the nets.” He added, “He would have played in place of Jonny Bairstow obviously if that had occurred. But we aren’t too perturbed about that, Jonny has been in form recently in white-ball cricket here in India. Kane will obviously come into calculations as the tournament unfolds.”