A resurgent Sunrisers Hyderabad would look to increase their three-match successful steak however have their process reduce out towards Punjab Kings, when the 2 sides sq. off in an IPL recreation in Mumbai on Sunday. Among a bunch of groups on six factors every, each SRH and PBKS will go all out to snap the 2 essential factors to nostril forward within the race for play-offs.
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Sunrisers started their marketing campaign with two defeats however bounced again with three successive wins — towards Chennai Super Kings, Gujarat Titans and Kolkata Knight Riders — and look good for extra, going by the pattern of their enhancing efficiency.
What: PBKS vs SRH, Match 28
When: April 17 (Sunday)
Where: DY Patil Stadium, Mumbai
Time: 3:30 PM IST
Punjab Kings had a morale-boosting 12-run win over Mumbai Indians of their final outing and the Sunrisers would definitely know that the Mayank Agarwal-led facet, who’re within the third spot, can be a troublesome workforce to beat.
SRH Team News
All the three wins for the Sunrisers got here whereas chasing they usually have discovered a brand new hero every time. Openers Abhishek Sharma and skipper Kane Williamson, after taking part in match-winning knocks towards CSK and Gujarat Titans respectively, had a failure towards KKR.
But with a variety of photographs at his disposal, left-handed Sharma can be aiming to present an aggressive begin. After getting the begins, Rahul Tripathi’s second of glory got here towards KKR when he struck a 37-ball 71 and ditto for Aiden Markaram, whose 36-ball unbeaten 68 helped the workforce go over the road.
With the swashbuckling Nicholos Pooran, who might be brutal when in full stream, of their ranks, the Sunrisers can set or chase down a giant whole. Rahul, Pooran and Markaram must as soon as once more shoulder accountability within the middle-order.
The Sunrisers pacers confirmed why they have been among the many finest within the enterprise of their earlier match. Marco Jansen, T Natarajan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Umran Malik shared seven wickets amongst them towards KKR and did the majority of harm.
With his angles and variations, Jansen is proving to be the opposition batters’ nightmare whereas yorker specialist Natarajan and tempo sensation Malik together with senior participant Bhuvneshwar Kumar have contributed with essential wickets.
In the absence of Washington Sundar, left-armer Jagadeesha Suchith did fairly properly towards KKR and he might retain his place.
PBKS Team News
SRH are up towards a robust and diversified Punjab assault led by South African speedster Kagiso Rabada, who has been proper on the cash.
Rabada would, nonetheless, want assist from Vaibhav Arora, who bled 43 runs towards Mumbai Indians, and the quick enhancing Arshdeep Singh. The weakest hyperlink within the Punjab assault might be spinner Rahul Chahar, who was taken to process within the final recreation, the place he leaked 44 runs.
Chahar must step up and ship because the SRH batters shall be seeking to goal him.
For Punjab, the largest growth is that the flamboyant opener Shikhar Dhawan is again among the many runs.
Dhawan, who smashed 70 towards MI, and Mayank Agarwal must as soon as once more give the facet a stable begin.
The middle-order has hard-hitters in Johnny Bairstow, Liam Livingstone, Jitesh Sharma, Shahrukh Khan and Odean Smith, and one of many batters might want to take accountability if the top-order falters.
Being a day recreation, dew wouldn’t be an element however an intriguing battle is in retailer.
Full Squads
Punjab Kings: Mayank Agarwal (captain), Shikhar Dhawan, Arshdeep Singh, Kagiso Rabada, Jonny Bairstow, Rahul Chahar, Harpreet Brar, Shahrukh Khan, Prabhsimran Singh, Jitesh Sharma, Ishan Porel, Liam Livingstone, Odean Smith, Sandeep Sharma, Raj Angad Bawa, Rishi Dhawan, Prerak Mankad, Vaibhav Arora, Writtick Chatterjee, Baltej Dhanda, Ansh Patel, Nathan Ellis, Atharva Taide, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Benny Howell.
Sunrisers Hyderabad: Kane Williamson (captain), Abhishek Sharma, Rahul Tripathi, Aiden Markram, Nicholos Pooran, Abdul Samad, Priyam Garg, Vishnu Vinod, Glenn Phillips, R Samarth, Shashank Singh, Washington Sundar, Romario Shepherd, Marco Jansen, J Suchith, Shreyas Gopal, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Sean Abbott, Kartik Tyagi, Saurabh Tiwary, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Umran Malik, T Natarajan.
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