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Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) take on Delhi Capitals (DC) as Pat Cummins won the toss and elected to bat first in their Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 clash at the ACA-VDCA stadium in Visakhapatnam on March 30.
What did the captains say?
After winning the toss, SRH captain Pat Cummins said:
"We'll have a bat. Afternoon game, tends to be hot. Looks like a good wicket, put a big score hopefully. That was the trend last year - we put on some big scores. So, playing to our strengths. We weren't too worried either way. Playing the way we do, you got to accept that some games it's not going to work out. One positive from the last game is we were a long way from our best, few things went wrong and we still got almost 200 runs. The boys are still positive. so keen to get out there. Zeeshan comes in for Simarjeet."
Meanwhile, DC skipper Axar Patel after losing the toss, said:
"We would have batted as well as it's an afternoon game. In the last game, the ball was doing more in the second innings. We'll look to restrict them to a low total. We have played one game here, we were working on our plans based on our opponents. We need to be brave as a bowling unit. We have certain plans and we have an aggressive mindset. One change, Sameer Rizvi is out, KL Rahul is in."
SRH's playing XI
Sunrisers Hyderabad (Playing XI): Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Ishan Kishan, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Heinrich Klaasen(w), Aniket Verma, Abhinav Manohar, Pat Cummins(c), Zeeshan Ansari, Harshal Patel, Mohammed Shami
Sunrisers Hyderabad Impact Subs: Sachin Baby, Eshan Malinga, Simarjeet Singh, Adam Zampa, Wiaan Mulder
DC's playing XI
Delhi Capitals (Playing XI): Jake Fraser-McGurk, Faf du Plessis, Abishek Porel(w), KL Rahul, Axar Patel(c), Tristan Stubbs, Vipraj Nigam, Mitchell Starc, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohit Sharma, Mukesh Kumar
Delhi Capitals Impact Subs: Karun Nair, Ashutosh Sharma, Sameer Rizvi, Donovan Ferreira, Tripurana Vijay
Pitch Report
"The sun is out. Dimensions - 66m and 60 square boundaries, downtown - 73m. This surface has got an interesting composition - black soil with red soil beneath it. We can expect the batters to have a field day. There might be some assistance for the spinners later in the day," Danny Morrison and WV Raman analysed the pitch.
