Head coach Daniel Vettori (below) on Friday said that the Sunrisers Hyderabad team management had little hesitation in handing over the stand-in captain’s job to Ishan Kishan as he proved to be a “confident player and leader.”

Regular skipper Pat Cummins will miss the early stages of IPL-19, owing to a back injury. “Ishan has been with a number of teams and he’s been highly successful, so he brings in his own confidence around that,” Vettori said in the pre-match press meet on Friday.