After successive losses of their first two matches within the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL), SunRisers Hyderabad (SRH) will face defending champions Mumbai Indians (MI) of their third recreation, desperately on the lookout for a win.
MI, in the meantime, have received one of many two matches they’ve performed up to now.
All eyes will probably be on whether or not SRH will play Kiwi batsman Kane Williamson, who didn’t characteristic in both of the workforce’s first two matches.
SRH batsmen have made a hash of issues so far, particularly of their earlier recreation against Royal Challengers Bangalore, which they misplaced from a place of power whereas chasing a modest goal.
There have already been requires together with Williamson, with former India cricketers Virender Sehwag and Sanjay Manjrekar saying that he’s required within the SRH line-up.
With MI boasting of bowlers like Trent Boult and Jasprit Bumrah, SRH will want a batsman who can bat lengthy and make sure that others play round him. Additionally, captain and opener David Warner’s battle with Boult might determine the course of the match.
Another keenly contested battle will probably be between SRH leg-spinner Rashid Khan and the MI center and decrease order batting.
Rashid has a knack of studying the pitch nicely, like he did within the final match through which he put the skids on RCB batting together with Jason Holder and others.
MI will current a special problem since they’ve power-hitters of their center and decrease order. The incontrovertible fact that they’ve failed in each the matches, within the loss to the Bangalore franchise and within the win over Kolkata Knight Riders, they are going to be determined to do nicely against SRH.
It may also be attention-grabbing to see if SRH area seamer Sandeep Sharma, who has the power to swing the ball early on. Both Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Holder did an excellent job with the brand new ball against RCB and their bowling against Rohit Sharma and Quinton de Kock will probably be one to be careful for.
The pitch in Chennai has aided the spinners and has slowed down as the sport has progressed. Teams batting first might once more have an edge over their opponent.
SRH misplaced each their video games whereas chasing, whereas MI’s lone victory got here whereas defending a goal.
Squads:
Mumbai Indians: Rohit Sharma (captain), Adam Milne, Aditya Tare, Anmolpreet Singh, Anukul Roy, Arjun Tendulkar, Chris Lynn, Dhawal Kulkarni, Hardik Pandya, Ishan Kishan (wicketkeeper), James Neesham, Jasprit Bumrah, Jayant Yadav, Kieron Pollard, Krunal Pandya, Marco Jansen, Mohsin Khan, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Piyush Chawla, Quinton De Kock (wicketkeeper), Rahul Chahar, Saurabh Tiwary, Suryakumar Yadav, Trent Boult, Yudhvir Singh.
SunRisers Hyderabad: David Warner (captain), Abhishek Sharma, Basil Thampi, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jonny Bairstow (wicketkeeper), Kane Williamson, Manish Pandey, Mohammad Nabi, Rashid Khan, Sandeep Sharma, Shahbaz Nadeem, Shreevats Goswami, Siddharth Kaul, Khaleel Ahmed, T Natarajan, Vijay Shankar, Wriddhiman Saha (wicketkeeper), Abdul Samad, Jason Roy, Jason Holder, Priyam Garg, Virat Singh, Kedar Jadhav, Mujeeb ur Rehman, J Suchith.
