SA20 provides me nice publicity to study extra about captaincy, says Markram

Aiden Markram is without end grateful to the Sunrisers franchise for exhibiting religion in his management talents as he will get right down to defend the SA20 title that Sunrisers Eastern Cape gained below his captaincy within the league’s inaugural version.

Fresh from his most interesting Test hundred, which he smashed in opposition to India final week, Markram is now prepared to attain large runs within the shortest format.

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“It’s always nice to get runs. It’s obviously [a] different format, but from a confidence point of view, it gives you confidence as a player, and to go from that knock straight to SA20, is a nice place to be, but you have to respect that this is a different format,” Markram advised PTI in an interview.

Winning the inaugural version of SA20 was a breakthrough second for Markram, who was later entrusted with the large process of main Sunrisers Hyderabad within the IPL (Indian Premier League).

“I am not sure as I am not involved in those decisions, fantastic opportunity and privilege to captain any team. It’s a great blessing to captain any Sunrisers team. Great exposure for myself to learn from captaincy point of view and wherever it takes you in future, you take it in your stride,” the Proteas vice-captain mentioned.

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The Eastern Cape Sunrisers don’t have too many large names save the skipper, England’s South African-born participant Dawid Malan, and Marco Jansen.

“You always feel that responsibility not just from captaincy point of view, but as a senior player also, to lead from the front. We want to give freedom to our players to express themselves and be the best player they can be. If it’s their day, the team would be in great position.”