Sunrisers Hyderabad are back to their home territory, where they started superbly and would be keen on coming back to their winning streak. They have lost both their outside matches – one to Mumbai Indians at Wankhede stadium and then to Kolkatta Knightriders at Eden Gardens day before yesterday. They can not take Kings XI lightly today as they have shown some good form in this VIVO IPL 10th edition.
Warner’s form is not a worry form them, but Shikar Dhawan not converting the good starts to big scores is slightly bothering them at the moment. He has been one of their successful players in the IPL and he has to come back to his real form so that the middle order batsmen can enjoy a bit of liberty. It is going to be interesting what combination Warner would be preferring today. Whether he will go with Ben Cutting or bring back Mutafizur for variety. No way he can drop Rashid Khan, who has become their trump card now with his fabulous spells.
For Kings XI the main problem is all the overseas players they have played in the last couple of games have been batsmen. The same has happened with Gujarat before they brought in Andrew Tye, who proved pretty successful with a hattrick in this debut match.
Kings have decent bowling attack but consistency matters in this sort of tournaments.
In the other match of the double maza today, Dehli Darevils will be facing the in form Kolkatta Knight riders. Delhi put up a fine show in the last match at Ferozsakotla beating Kings XI quite comfortably with some fine allround show.
More importantly for them their captain Zaheer Khan is bowling some fine spells, showing pretty good fitness and it is going to be Zaheer vs Ghambir today.
In yesterday’s matches Royal Challengers Bangalore suffered yet another defeat this time at the hands of Rising Pune Supergaints. That too it happened at their home and now they cant relax as they have been able to win only one match out of the five they have played so far.
But Mumbai Indians are back their winning ways as they defeated Gujrat Lions at Wankhede stadium, thanks mainly to Rohitt Sharma coming back to his real form with a fine know, while Polard continued from where he left in the last match against RCB.
Mahavaadi Sudeer– DD Commentator
