🏏IPL 2024: Match 41 - SRH vs RCB at Hyderabad @ 7:30PM IST🏏 - Page 2

Quotes

"I think the quality of Travis and Abhishek at the top and their their fearless attitude [has been the reason for aggressive batting style]. And I think once the openers do it, it's pretty contagious. So those two in particular have been fantastic and then we've had some players have been really complementary to that style."

Sunrisers head coach Daniel Vettori on the team's batting approach this season

"I think as a batting group, we may have lost the last two games but we scored 262 in a tough chase and then the other night 220 again. We know we've got the high scores in us. We've been playing with the freedom of chasing a high score. You know you have no option but to go after. We'll be looking to continue that and play with the same freedom as if we were chasing a 220-plus score."

RCB's Will Jacks backs his side's batting unit

I think Maxi will play today 😍😍

Hope 0 (1) na banaye

Probable Best Players of the Match

Probable Best Batter: Travis Head

Sunrisers Hyderabad’s Travis Head could be the best batter in the upcoming game against Royal Challengers Bengaluru. Head has been in exceptional form, attacking the bowlers right from the get go and amassing big scores for his side. His performance could once again be key for SRH.

Probable Best Bowler: T Natarajan

SRH’s T Natarajan could be the best bowler in the upcoming game against RCB. Natarajan looked brilliant in his last game, and his spell could be troublesome for the Bengaluru batters. Hyderabad will depend on Natarajan to provide them with crucial breakthroughs.

Scenario 1 

Sunrisers Hyderabad win the toss and bat

Power Play score – 80-90

First Innings Score - 250-260

Sunrisers Hyderabad win the match

Scenario 2

Royal Challengers Bengaluru win the toss and bat
Power Play score - 50-60 

First Innings Score - 180-190

Sunrisers Hyderabad win the match

RCB have suffered six defeats on the trot now in IPL 2024. All six would have hurt without a doubt. But the most recent one, against Kolkata Knight Riders, would have stung a bit more. A stunning run chase saw them almost gun down 223, only to fall one run short. For a team that badly needed a win, this was a dagger straight to the heart, almost like a final blow.

In such a scenario, the last team one would want to run into in this year's edition of the IPL is Sunrisers Hyderabad. But here we are, less than ten days after that never-seen-before carnage at the Chinnaswamy. Records were broken left, right and center and the RCB bowlers know that a repeat cannot be ruled out given what has transpired so far. If they do manage to stop Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma, they will still have to contend with Aiden Markram, Heinrich Klaasen and Nitish Reddy. Even Shahbaz Ahmed slammed a quickfire fifty in the last game.

One thing RCB can take solace from is the fact that the SRH bowling attack has also leaked plenty. They haven't been able to breathe easy after posting 277, 287 and most recently 266. But first thing's first, the focus will once again be on that SRH opening pair. If RCB can find a way to get rid of them both in the powerplay, it will be a big step towards ending their miserable streak of results.

When: Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Royal Challengers Bangalore,April 25, 2024 at 19:30 IST

Where: Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderabad

What to expect: We have had two games in Hyderabad so far this season. One witnessed over 500 runs and the other was a moderate one with CSK making just 165, which was chased down with ease.

Team Watch

Sunrisers Hyderabad

Injuries/Availability: SRH do not have any injury concerns at the moment.

Tactics & Matchups: Jaydev Unadkat, Pat Cummins and Mayank Markande have a pretty good record against Virat Kohli in the IPL. SRH will be better served using this trio against the current orange cap holder. On the other hand, Heinrich Klaasen has a terrific record against the majority of the RCB bowlers.

Probable XI: Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Aiden Markram, Heinrich Klaasen (WK), Nitish Reddy, Shahbaz Ahmed, Abdul Samad, Pat Cummins, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mayank Markande, T Natarajan [Impact sub: Washington Sundar/Jaydev Unadkat]

Royal Challengers Bengaluru

Injuries/Availability: If Glenn Maxwell continues to sit out, Cameron Green will get another opportunity in the middle order considering how well Will Jacks played the other night against KKR.

On the other hand, if RCB opt to strengthen the bowling attack against this rampaging batting lineup, Alzarri Joseph might be in line for a recall.

Tactics & Matchups: Faf du Plessis may have had an underwhelming IPL so far but his record against the likes of Bhuvneshwar, Cummins, Unadkat and Shahbaz works in his favour. Most of the bowlers from that SRH camp have a poor record against DK.

Probable XI: Faf du Plessis (C), Virat Kohli, Will Jacks, Rajat Patidar, Cameron Green, Mahipal Lomror, Dinesh Karthik (WK), Karn Sharma, Lockie Ferguson, Yash Dayal, Mohammed Siraj

Did you know?

The last time these two teams met in Hyderabad, Virat Kohli scored a century in a successful run chase.

The batting strikes in the powerplay of Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma in IPL 2024 is 234.54 and 232.87 respectively.

Originally posted by: Savera84

Team news and impact player strategy

Sunrisers Hyderabad

SRH are unlikely to change their XI barring any injuries. Head has been the player subbed out when they have batted first and subbed in while chasing. In their last game, against Delhi Capitals, they brought in Washington Sundar as the Impact Player.

Sunrisers Hyderabad (probable XII): 1 Travis Head, 2 Abhishek Sharma, 3 Aiden Markram, 4 Heinrich Klaasen (wk), 5 Abdul Samad, 6 Nitish Kumar Reddy, 7 Shahbaz Ahmed, 8 Washington Sundar, 9 Pat Cummins (capt), 10 Bhuvneshwar Kumar, 11 Mayank Markande, 12 T Natarajan

Royal Challengers Bengaluru

RCB brought back Mohammed Siraj, Cameron Green and Karn Sharma for the previous match in place of Vyshak Vijaykumar, Reece Topley and Saurav Chauhan. If Maxwell is good to go, he might slot in for Green. They got Suyash Prabhudessai in as the Impact sub in their second innings, swapping out Yash Dayal.

Royal Challengers Bangalore (probable XII): 1 Virat Kohli, 2 Faf du Plessis (capt), 3 Will Jacks, 4 Rajat Patidar, 5 Cameron Green/Glenn Maxwell, 6 Suyash Prabhudessai, 7 Mahipal Lomror, 8 Dinesh Karthik (wk), 9 Karn Sharma, 10 Lockie Ferguson, 11 Mohammed Siraj, 12 Yash Dayal/ Vyshak Vijaykumar

Thnks for tagging, looking forward to seeing this match...i hope and pray RCB wins today... 

This match is gonna b interesting 😄 

Thank you for the tag Raji! Lets go SRH. Anti-climax na ho aaj bas..