New Delhi. The teams of Rajasthan Royals and Sunrisers Hyderabad will fight each other on Friday to make it to the finals of IPL. This match of IPL Qualifier-2 will be played in Chennai. The pitch here has been helpful to the spinners. In such a situation, the performance of Yuzvendra Chahal and Ravichandran Ashwin can be seen in this match. Trevid Head and Abhishek Sharma, who gave a great start to Sunrisers Hyderabad, may face a tough challenge from this clever spin pair of Rajasthan.
The pair of Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma have given a new style to batting in the powerplay. This pair has received the name ‘Trevishek’ from fans. Head has scored 533 runs in the current season at a strike rate of 199.62. Abhishek has 470 runs in his name at a strike rate of 207.04. Together, both have hit 72 sixes and 96 fours so far. Apart from this, Sunrisers have an excellent batsman in the form of Heinrich Klaasen (413 runs at a strike rate of 180) who has hit 34 sixes.
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The pitch of MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai will be a little different from Uppal (Hyderabad). The ball stops here and it is not easy to play big shots as soon as it comes. This is also the home pitch of off-spinner Ashwin. He is well aware of it and is in excellent form. Rajasthan Royals will hope that Ashwin along with leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal will send Head, Abhishek and Klaasen to the pavilion as quickly as possible.
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As far as Sunrisers’ bowling is concerned, once again this responsibility will be on Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Pat Cummins and T Natarajan. Natarajan has been the team’s highest wicket-taker this season. He would like to take advantage of the conditions while playing on his home ground. Sunrisers’ problem is also the lack of good spinners in the team. Mayank Markande and Shahbaz Ahmed are not effective.
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Talking about Rajasthan Royals, Yashasvi Jaiswal seems to be returning to form. He would like to continue this form before the T20 World Cup to be held next month. Captain Sanju Samson will have to perform better because he has not even touched the 20-run mark in the last three matches. Dhruv Jurel will be under pressure in the middle order, who could not even reach double figures in his last two matches. The Hyderabad team will also depend on West Indies’ Shimron Hetmyer and Rovman Powell, who showed power hitting against Bengaluru. Riyan Parag, who is in excellent form in the current season, is one of the reliable batsmen of the Royals.
Sunrisers Hyderabad: Pat Cummins (captain), Abhishek Sharma, Travis Head, Heinrich Klaasen, Aiden Markram, Abdul Samad, Nitish Reddy, Shahbaz Ahmed, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jaydev Unadkat, T Natarajan, Mayank Markande, Umran Malik, Anmolpreet Singh, Glenn Phillips, Rahul Tripathi, Washington Sundar, Upendra Yadav, J Subramaniam, Sanvir Singh, Vijaykant Vyaskant, Fazalhaq Farooqui, Marco Jansen, Akash Maharaj Singh and Mayank Agarwal.
Rajasthan Royals: Sanju Samson (captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Tom Kohler-Cadmore, Riyan Parag, Dhruv Jurel, Shimron Hetmyer, Donovan Ferreira, Rovman Powell, Ravichandran Ashwin, Trent Boult, Yuzvendra Chahal, Avesh Khan, Sandeep Sharma, Kuldeep Sen, Kunal Singh Rathore, Nandre Burger, Navdeep Saini, Shubham Dubey, Abid Mushtaq and Tanush Kotian.
Tags: IPL 2024, Rajasthan Royals, Sunrisers Hyderabad
FIRST PUBLISHED : May 23, 2024, 19:45 IST