Aiden Markram joins Lucknow Super Giants after three successful seasons with Sunrisers Eastern Cape

Proteas T20I captain Aiden Markram moves to Lucknow Super Giants in a record SA20 auction bid after three seasons with Sunrisers Eastern Cape. Markram hopes to tackle new challenges and help the Super Giants recover from a disappointing previous season.

Hyderabad: The Proteas T20I captain Aiden Markram enjoyed three highly successful seasons with the Sunrisers Eastern Cape, leading the St George’s Park-based team to two successive championship titles and runners-up finish last season.

But although the Sunrisers valiantly tried to keep Markram in their stable by utilising their Right to Match (RTM) card at the auction when the bid reached USD 720K, the Super Giants hit back with an improved USD 806.5K to secure the 30-year-old for the new season.

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At the time it was a new auction record, surpassing Markram’s former SEC teammate Tristan Stubbs’ previous mark of USD 530K although it lasted only for a short while before Pretoria Capitals snapped up Dewald Brevis for a cool USD 950.6K.

“It’s exciting. Something new is always exciting. On the other side of it, obviously sad to leave Sunrisers,” Markram told SA20.

“Had a really good three years with them, great people, great coach with Adie Birrell. So that part of it is obviously sad, but I spent some time with Lucknow Super Giants at the IPL and obviously now with Durban or going to Durban is going to be exciting.

“New challenges, different conditions, new teammates, some different teammates. It’s always exciting to be able to sort of see those new things and face different challenges.”

The Super Giants are looking to recover from a disappointing Season 3 where they won just two matches from 10 starts, which saw the Kingsmead side rooted to the basement of the SA20 log.