Sunrisers Hyderabad will look to produce a dominant present in opposition to a frail Mumbai Indians outfit and transfer up within the Indian Premier League factors desk when the 2 groups conflict in Mumbai on May 6.
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The Indian Premier League is coming into the final fortnight of the league stage. Naturally, it’s that point of the yr when phrases like “business end, must-win affair, playing for pride and playing spoilsport” will likely be used as incessantly as Travis Head’s sixes and Jasprit Bumrah’s toe-crushers.
Despite all these phrases befitting the contest between Sunrisers Hyderabad – among the many most aggressive outfits who can seldom afford a slip-up for making it to the Playoffs – and Mumbai Indians – on the right track to be awarded the wood spoon, it will likely be the battle between the in kind opening batter and the choose of IPL bowlers – but once more – that will likely be tempting for the followers to flock the Wankhede Stadium on Monday night time.
Head and Abhishek Sharma – the left-handed duo – have turned the aggressive template into an ultra-aggressive mode this time round. Among the a number of events when the duo have set the tone for a gargantuan SRH whole was the contest between these two sides in Hyderabad early on within the event.
So unusually was Bumrah utilized in that recreation that he bowled a solitary supply to Head. With Mumbai Indians having solely satisfaction and status to play for, the followers will likely be hoping for an additional duel between the duo as an alternative of Bumrah’s workload being managed with a watch on India’s T20 World Cup problem.
Equally fascinating may very well be the battle between Rohit Sharma, who was used as an Impact Player in opposition to Kolkata Knight Riders on Friday night time due to a stiff again, and T. Natarajan, the left-arm pacer who has discovered his mojo.
Teams (from)
Mumbai Indians: Hardik Pandya (c), Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav, Dewald Brevis, Jasprit Bumrah, Piyush Chawla, Gerald Coetzee, Tim David, Shreyas Gopal, Ishan Kishan (wk), Anshul Kamboj, Kumar Kartikeya, Akash Madhwal, Kwena Maphaka, Mohammad Nabi, Shams Mulani, Naman Dhir, Shivalik Sharma, Romario Shepherd, Arjun Tendulkar, Nuwan Thushara, Tilak Varma, Harvik Desai (wk), Nehal Wadhera, Luke Wood.
Sunrisers Hyderabad: Abhishek Sharma, Travis Head, Heinrich Klaasen (wk), Aiden Markram, Abdul Samad, Nitish Reddy, Shahbaz Ahmed, Pat Cummins (c), Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jaydev Unadkat, T Natarajan, Mayank Markande, Umran Malik, Anmolpreet Singh, Glenn Phillips (wk), Rahul Tripathi, Washington Sundar, Upendra Yadav (wk), Jhathavedh Subramanyan, Sanvir Singh, Vijayakanth Viyaskanth, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Marco Jansen, Akash Maharaj Singh, Mayank Agarwal.
Match begins 7:30pm IST.
