SRH owners Sun TV Network donate Rs 30 crores to help in India's fight against second wave of Covid-19
Sun TV Network, which owns the Sunrisers Hyderabad franchise, took to social media to make the announcement of their donation towards India's relief work against the coronavirus pandemic.
In Short
- Sunrisers Hyderabad owners will donate Rs 30 crore towards Covid-19 relief work
- Sun TV Network will also use its media assets to spread greater awareness
- SRH were dead last on the IPL 2021 table before the tournament was suspended on May 4
Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) owners have decided to donate Rs 30 crores to help in India's fight against the deadly second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, the Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise informed on Monday.
Sun TV Network, which owns the Hyderabad-based team, took to social media to make the announcement of their donation to the Government of India and state governments.
"Sun TV Network is donating a sum of Rs.30 crores to provide relief to those affected by the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. This will be spent on several initiatives currently under way at various states of lndia including the following: 1. Donations to the various programmes initiated by Government of India and State governments 2. Partnering with NGOs that are providing oxygen cylinders, medicines etc," SRH said in a statement.
In addition to the monetary donation, the SUN TV Network will also "leverage its resources including all its media assets to spread greater awareness among millions of our TV viewing audiences across India and rest of the world," the statement further read.
Sun TV (SunRisers Hyderabad) is donating Rs.30 crores to provide relief to those affected by the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. pic.twitter.com/P6Fez9DuLo — SunRisers Hyderabad (@SunRisers) May 10, 2021
SRH were dead last on the points table in IPL 2021 with 1 win from 7 games before the tournament was suspended indefinitely by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on May 4 after four players and 2 support staff members across 4 franchises tested positive for Covid-19 last week. A bus cleaner associated with one of the teams also contracted the virus.
SRH wicketkeeper Wriddhiman Saha was one of the four players who returned a positive result.
Two more players tested positive on Saturday (May 8) taking the overall tally to 6 out of which 4 cricketers belonged to the Kolkata Knight Riders (Varun Chakravarthy, Sandeep Warrier, Tim Seifert & Prasidh Krishna), 1 each from SRH (Saha) and Delhi Capitals (Amit Mishra).
The tournament didn't even reach its half-way mark with 29 matches being played till May 2 before it was postponed.