IPL 2023: “Maybe Umran Malik Had A Spat With SRH Management”- Virender Sehwag, Sunil Gavaskar On SRH Captain Aiden Markram’s  ‘Behind The Scene’ Remark

Everyone was eager to see what express pacer Umran Malik would do in IPL 2023 especially after his exploits for Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) in IPL 2022 season where he had picked 22 wickets to stand among the contenders for the Purple Cap.

This led to him making his India debut in T20Is and ODIs. Bigger things were anticipated for him in the 2023 IPL season, despite the fact that he was unable to make the T20 World Cup roster. However, he only managed to make an appearance in seven of SRH’s 13 games this season, bowling only 17 overs, indicating he wasn’t even utilized for his entire four overs per game allotment.

At the toss on Thursday, Markram was asked by Ian Bishop as the reason behind SRH continuously not selecting Umran in the XI.

The South Africa international said: “Not too sure to be honest. Certainly, he’s a player with the X factor, bowls at 150kph, but I don’t really what’s about behind the scenes but he has a lot of X factor.”

Virender Sehwag, in conversation with Cricbuzz, looked to decode the meaning of ‘behind the scenes’ phrase as he opined that probably Umran had a spat with the SRH management, which ked to him being benched.

“I feel you can do anything behind the scene that is your life, you if you are performing in the ground and you are working hard for it, that is important for me. When I was the coach or mentor, I believed that when you in the ground I want to 100 per cent effort from you, off the field what you do, I have not meaning in that, that is your life. I truly did not understand what ‘behind the scene’ meant. It could be that he (Umran) had a fight with the management or maybe there was an argument, then that is bad. You were given an opportunity, you did not perform, now you have to wait until your next chance. You should shut the mouths with your performance,” he said.

Sehwag revealed that it reminded him of Warner who had spoken much on the same lines during his stay at the SRH franchise.

“I think something similar was said by David Warner as well. This was the same language, only Markram put it in a better way,” he said.

“Markram Genuinely Doesn’t Know Why Umran Has Been Dropped”-Sunil Gavaskar

Gavaskar, who took part in the conversation, suggested that it’s possible Markram was instructed not to select Umran before giving him a proper season, and the captain merely did as he was instructed.

“Probably Markram genuinely doesn’t know why Umran has been dropped or he maybe told not to pick him. And when Markram has been provided with no reason then what else will he say,” he said.

SRH still have one more game to play, against Mumbai Indians at the Wankhede on May 21.

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