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Kavya Maran explains her viral reactions during IPL matches, citing her deep attachment and the cameramen’s eagerness to search out her from anywhere.
Sunrisers Hyderabad owner Kavya Maran. (Sportzpics Photo)
Businesswoman Kavya Maran, the CEO and co-owner of the Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) franchise, has said she understands why her animated reactions during IPL matches, which get caught on camera and find yourself becoming memes on the web. She said she has put her ‘heart and soul’ into SRH and is ‘personally attached’ to its results on the pitch, which the broadcasters’ cameramen be sure to hound and capture.
Kavya is the daughter of Sun Group chairman Kalanithi Maran. She became a web sensation overnight in 2023 by leading SRH’s charge within the IPL auction. Since then, she’s been present at the bottom for just about all of SRH’s matches, and her reactions to moments on the sector rapidly go viral on social media.
“Those are my raw emotions that you just’re seeing because my job has brought me to the purpose that I even have to place myself on the market,” Kavya said in an interview with Fortune India. “In Hyderabad, I can’t do anything; I even have to sit down there. That’s the one place I can sit. But even when I am going to Ahmedabad or Chennai, and I’m sitting many feet away, somewhere within the box, the cameraman manages to search out me. So, I understand the way it becomes memes.”
“In terms of Sunrisers, I genuinely wear my heart on my sleeve. I feel once you put your heart and soul into something, you naturally are inclined to get very personally attached to its successes and failures,” she added.
SRH have one IPL title to their name — 2016. They’ve had quite a roller coaster journey under Kavya’s tutelage.
In 2023, they finished last within the points table, despite constructing a solid team. In 2024, they went in the wrong way, qualifying in second and reaching the ultimate. This yr, they ended mid-table, winning six of their 14 matches and being out of the playoff race quite early.
Kavya also overlooks the Sunrisers Eastern Cape franchise within the South African competition, SA20. There, they’re essentially the most successful franchise, having won the primary two seasons in 2023 and 2024 under Aiden Markram’s captaincy.
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