Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Rajasthan Royals IPL Match Today: Pat Cummins’ Sunrisers Hyderabad will lock horns with Sanju Samson’s Rajasthan Royals on Friday in Qualifier 2. The former has been thrashed by Kolkata Knight Riders in Qualifier 1 while the latter had a scratchy win against Royal Challengers Bengaluru in Eliminator.
SRH time and again has lacked the firepower or depth in batting order to make scores when Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma have failed. While RR has found ways to lose a game in the second half of the season. Their losing streak began against Sunrisers when they lost a winnable game by one run.
Playing XI predictions for SRH vs RR Qualifier 2 match today
SRH predicted XI: Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Rahul Tripathi, Nitish Reddy, Shahbaz Ahmed, Heinrich Klaasen, Abdul Samad, Pat Cummins, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Vijayakanth Viyaskanth, T Natarajan
Impact Substitute: Sanvir Singh/Umran Malik
SRH Player to watch out for Travis Head has had a stellar season so far scoring 533 runs at an average of 44.42 and strike rate of 199.63. However, in the last couple of games, the left-hander was dismissed for back-to-back ducks. For Sunrisers to be successful he needs to make a menace in the Powerplay.
RR predicted XI: Tom Kohler-Cadmore, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sanju Samson, Riyan Parag, Dhruv Jurel, Rovman Powell, Ravichandran Ashwin, Trent Boult, Avesh Khan, Sandeep Sharma, Yuzvendra Chahal
Impact substitute: Shimron Hetmyer/Nandre Burger
RR player to watch out for All eyes will be on homeboy Ravichandran Ashwin after his match-winning perfromance against RCB in the previous game. SRH’s middle order has had its fair share of issues and the Chennai pitch offers a bit of assistance to tweakers hence the offie’s spell in the middle overs might play a key role.
SRH vs RR head-to-head in IPL
Matches played: 19, Sunrisers Hyderabad: 10, Rajasthan Royals: 9
SRH vs RR head-to-head in playoffs
Matches played: 1, Sunrisers Hyderabad: 0, Rajasthan Royals: 1
Squads:
Rajasthan Royals Squad: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Tom Kohler-Cadmore, Sanju Samson(w/c), Riyan Parag, Dhruv Jurel, Rovman Powell, Ravichandran Ashwin, Trent Boult, Avesh Khan, Sandeep Sharma, Yuzvendra Chahal, Shimron Hetmyer, Nandre Burger, Shubham Dubey, Tanush Kotian, Donovan Ferreira, Navdeep Saini, Keshav Maharaj, Kuldeep Sen, Abid Mushtaq, Kunal Singh Rathore
Sunrisers Hyderabad Squad: Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Rahul Tripathi, Nitish Reddy, Heinrich Klaasen(w), Abdul Samad, Shahbaz Ahmed, Pat Cummins(c), Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Vijayakanth Viyaskanth, T Natarajan, Tanvir Singh, Umran Malik, Glenn Phillips, Washington Sundar, Jaydev Unadkat, Mayank Agarwal, Aiden Markram, Anmolpreet Singh, Upendra Yadav, Mayank Markande, Jhatavedh Subramanyan, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Marco Jansen, Akash Maharaj Singh
SRH vs RR pitch report
The Chennai pitch has traditionally helped spinners. Deep into the summer, it remains to be seen how much dew will play a part in the second innings. While Cummins chose to bat first in Qualifier 1 Samson opted to bowl first in Eliminator.
SRH vs RR weather report
The maximum temperature in Chennai today 36 degrees centigrade and the minimum temperature which is at night is 30 degrees centigrade. However, the challenging part for the players is to deal with the humidity in the coastal city.
SRH vs RR livestreaming details
The SRH vs RR Eliminator IPL match will be streamed on the JioCinema App and telecast on the Star Sports Network on May 24, Friday from 7:30 PM IST
