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Already eliminated Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) take on playoffs hopefuls Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) as Faf Du Plessis won the toss and opted to bowl first in their IPL at the Rajeev Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad on Thursday (May 18).
Captains' comments
“We are gonna have a bowl. The last two nights we have had some dew. Good surface but touch on the slower side. Same team as last game. Hasaranga has a niggle. Bracewell strengthens our batting. We have to start afresh. The game of cricket has a funny way of biting you. You have to have the humility of looking at a fresh game,” RCB skipper Du Plessis said after the toss.
“We would have looked to bat. Not too disappointed. Couple of changes. Brook comes in. Tyagi comes in as well. Umran is an x-factor player. Lot of pride to play for. We haven't lived up to the ability. We should try to showcase that at the world stage in the last two games,” SRH captain Aiden Markram after the toss.
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Head-to-Head
Matches Played - 22
Matches won by Sunrisers Hyderabad - 12
Matches won by Royal Challengers Bangalore - 9
Matches with No Result - 1
Pitch report
“Pitch is in the center of the square. Square boundaries are mid-60s on either side (meters). Curator says this is his favourite wicket of the block and I can see why. It's absolutely even and there's not a blade of grass out of place. It's a little bit on the drier side though. There has been quite a bit of water put into it but with the weather overhead in the last couple of days being so hot, it's just a bit dry. As you can see there's a bit of surface cracking but I wouldn't be too worried about that. Important for openers to cash in against the new ball. Once players get their spikes chewing the wicket up a little bit, you'll start to get the ball slowing down a touch and spin playing a part later on. For me, you win the toss and bat first. 4 of the 6 games here have been won batting first. Curator has said there hasn't been much dew. Pitch looks a little abrasive, a little dry. It could turn. Might not be as high-scoring as the previous games,” Aaron Finch and Deep Dasgupta analysed the pitch.
Royal Challengers Bangalore (Playing XI): Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis(c), Glenn Maxwell, Mahipal Lomror, Anuj Rawat(w), Shahbaz Ahmed, Michael Bracewell, Wayne Parnell, Harshal Patel, Karn Sharma, Mohammed Siraj.
Royal Challengers Bangalore Subs: Dinesh Karthik, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Himanshu Sharma, Suyash Prabhudessai, Kedar Jadhav
Sunrisers Hyderabad (Playing XI): Abhishek Sharma, Rahul Tripathi, Aiden Markram(c), Heinrich Klaasen(w), Harry Brook, Glenn Phillips, Abdul Samad, Kartik Tyagi, Mayank Dagar, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Nitish Reddy.
Sunrisers Hyderabad Subs: Mayank Markande, T Natarajan, Vivrant Sharma, Sanvir Singh, Akeal Hosein.
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