Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) skipper Aiden Markram won the toss and opted to field first against Mumbai Indians at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium on April 18. Markram went ahead with the same side whereas Rohit Sharma brought back Australian left-arm pacer Jason Behrendorff for Duan Jansen, brother of opposition team pacer Marco.
“Wicket looks slightly drier, hopefully it gets better with the dew. Not in the 16 (no changes). We'll see how conditions play and adjust from there. Our fielding needs to improve. We are improving game by game. It's about guys exploring options and trusting them,” Markram said after winning the toss.
‘It's been fantastic, 15 years IPL has come off a long way. Has gone from strength to strength. Lots of good things have happened in 15 years. We have to play good cricket. We do understand the challenges of posting a total. We've to assess the conditions. Duan misses out and Jason comes in. Jason was always supposed to play, but he was not well last game. He's okay to go now,” Rohit said after losing the toss.
Head-to-head
The two teams have gone up against each other 19 times. MI have a slight edge over SRH with 10 wins including a win in super over. The last time these two teams went up against each other was at Wankhede Stadium. SRH won the game by three runs in last over thriller. The last time, MI played SRH in Hyderabad was in 2019. MI won the match comfortably by 40 runs.
SRH Playing XI: Mayank Agarwal, Harry Brook, Rahul Tripathi, Aiden Markram(c), Heinrich Klaasen(w), Abhishek Sharma, Washington Sundar, Marco Jansen, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mayank Markande, T Natarajan
Subs: Abdul Samad, Vivrant Sharma, Glenn Phillips, Mayank Dagar, Umran Malik
MI Playing XI: Rohit Sharma(c), Ishan Kishan(w), Tilak Varma, Suryakumar Yadav, Tim David, Cameron Green, Arjun Tendulkar, Nehal Wadhera, Hrithik Shokeen, Piyush Chawla, Jason Behrendorff
Subs: Riley Meredith, Ramandeep Singh, Kumar Kartikeya, Shams Mulani, Vishnu Vinod
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