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Pat Cummins-led Sunrisers Hyderabad is competing against Rishabh Pant's Lucknow Super Giants in match 7 of the ongoing edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025, which is Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad, on March 27 (Thursday). Pant won the toss and elected to bowl first. This came out as a surprising move as SRH are known for putting on a massive score on the board, and LSG is currently struggling with their bowling as lots of their stars are dealing with their injuries.
Rishabh Pant's warning to SRH
The Lucknow Super Giants' captain made it clear that they are not scared of bowling first and whatever target SRH put in front of them, they will chase it down. Among fans and experts, there is a lot of discussion going on if this will be the match when the 300-run mark will be breached in IPL.
"We will bowl first. I think we got to get them out early and look to chase the target. It depends on the team combination, that's why we want to bowl first. We have the batting to chase it down. The only change is Avesh comes back, Shahbaz misses out. We gonna chase whatever they score, doesn't matter," said Rishabh Pant after winning the toss.
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"It doesn't change the way our boys go about it, we always try to be positive. It's great fun. You know what you are signing up for coming into this tournament. Even going for 10 or 11 runs in an over, that can be match winning on somedays. We want to win games as a team and do well as a bowling unit. Hopefully we score big. We are playing with the same team like the other day," said SRH captain Cummins.
SRH vs LSG Playing XIs
Sunrisers Hyderabad: Abhishek Sharma, Travis Head, Ishan Kishan, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Heinrich Klaasen(w), Aniket Verma, Abhinav Manohar, Pat Cummins(c), Simarjeet Singh, Harshal Patel, Mohammed Shami
Subs: Sachin Baby, Jaydev Unadkat, Zeeshan Ansari, Adam Zampa, Wiaan Mulder
Lucknow Super Giants: Aiden Markram, Nicholas Pooran, Rishabh Pant(w/c), Abdul Samad, David Miller, Ayush Badoni, Shardul Thakur, Ravi Bishnoi, Avesh Khan, Digvesh Rathi, Prince Yadav
Subs: Shahbaz, Manimaran Siddharth, Mitchell Marsh, Himmat Singh, Akash Maharaj Singh
