CHEN­NAI, In­dia – For­mer Test and one-day cap­tain, Ja­son Hold­er, ar­rived on Mon­day for his stint with Sun­ris­ers Hy­der­abad in the cash-rich In­di­an Pre­mier League, fresh from help­ing West In­dies se­cure a nil-all stale­mate in the two-Test se­ries against Sri Lan­ka.

Un­der the In­di­an Crick­et Board (BC­CI) ex­ist­ing health pro­to­cols, the 29-year-old will now spend sev­en days in quar­an­tine be­fore he is al­lowed to link up with the squad led by big-hit­ting Aus­tralian open­er David Warn­er.

Sun­ris­ers take on Kolkata Knight Rid­ers, who boast Hold­er’s team­mates Sunil Nar­ine and An­dre Rus­sell in their ranks, next Mon­day.

“Wel­com­ing the big man from the Windies. Sva­gatam, @Jase­hold­er98!,” Sun­ris­ers Hy­der­abad tweet­ed.

Hold­er, the world’s lead­ing Test all-rounder, proved a rev­e­la­tion for the fran­chise last sea­son af­ter he was a late call-up to re­place in­jured Aus­tralian Mitchell Marsh.

The Bar­ba­di­an cap­tured 14 wick­ets from sev­en match­es at an av­er­age of 16 and an econ­o­my rate of eight.

He was ex­cep­tion­al in the cru­cial play­off elim­i­na­tor, snatch­ing three wick­ets and hit­ting a late or­der un­beat­en 24 as Sun­ris­ers stunned Roy­al Chal­lengers Ban­ga­lore by six wick­ets in Abu Dhabi with two balls re­main­ing.

Re­lieved of the Test cap­tain­cy just pri­or to the se­ries against Sri Lan­ka, the move did noth­ing to af­fect his per­for­mances as he fea­tured promi­nent­ly in all three for­mats in help­ing West In­dies win the Twen­ty20 In­ter­na­tion­al se­ries 2-1 and the one-day se­ries 3-0.

In the Test se­ries staged in An­tigua, he gath­ered two en­ter­pris­ing half-cen­turies to fin­ish with an av­er­age of 69 and al­so claimed sev­en wick­ets, in­clud­ing a five-wick­et haul in the first Test.

At Sun­ris­ers, Hold­er will play along­side the likes of New Zealand bat­ting star Kane Williamson, the Eng­lish pair of Ja­son Roy and Jon­ny Bairstow and Afghan su­per­star leg-spin­ner Rashid Khan.

(CMC)