Sunrisers Hyderabad have to win today match to book their place in the playoff race.
Gujarat Lions and Sunrisers Hyderabad will face-off in the 53rd match of Indian Premier League 2017 at Kanpur on Saturday afternoon. If the defending champions want to confirm a berth in the play-offs, they need to win the contest against the Lions. If they lose the game, they’ll have to depend on the result of the game between Rising Pune Supergiant and Kings XI Punjab. Let’s have a look at the team that has higher chances to win this contest.
SRH needing the victory to secure a playoff spot and boasting of the better bowling line-up, it will be interesting to see which side will come out on top in their respective final games of the group stage.
Sunrisers Hyderabad: Strengths
In-form openers! David Warner and Shikhar Dhawan – both Hyderabad openers have been in a good touch in the 10th edition of IPL. Warner is the leading getter of the season while Dhawan is chasing him for the Orange Cap. It’s good to see this healthy competition between the openers, isn’t it? Apart from that, Yuvi, Williamson Henriques have chipped in with useful contributions more often than not.
Afghan all-rounders! Inclusion of Mohammad Nabi and Rashid Khan in the team has been a blessing for Sunrisers. Rashid Khan has been the strike bowler while Nabi has choked batsmen with his clever bowling. Scoring against the Afghan all-rounder is not at all easy and his economy explains it all.
Probable XI – Shikhar Dhawan, David Warner, Moises Henriques, Yuvraj Singh, Mohammad Nabi, Rashid Khan, Naman Ojha, Bipul Sharma, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Siddharth Kaul, Mohammad Siraj.
Match prediction – Sunrisers Hyderabad have a strong team and most of their bowlers are in very good form. On the other hand, Lions have a weak bowling unit and their season has been a disappointing one. Hence, if we look at the form of both team, Sunrisers are most likely to win this contest.
Gujarat Lions: Strengths
Suresh Raina, Dinesh Karthik and Aaron Finch – Gujarat’s top class middle order batsmen have done the bulk of the scoring for the Lions this season. DK and Raina have been involved in quite a number of partnerships, while Finch has played a couple of excellent knocks coming to bat down the order. While playing for Australia, Finch usually opens the batting but in IPL 2017, Finch has done a pretty good job batting in that middle order.
Handy all-rounders! Gujarat has two of the best all-rounders in the form of Ravindra Jadeja and James Faulkner. However, both players have not played to their potential. Jadeja has inflicted plenty of run-outs and his fielding has been exceptional. But, when it comes to his batting and bowling, Jaddu has disappointed his fans to quite an extent.
Probable XI – Ishan Kishan, Dwayne Smith, Suresh Raina, Aaron Finch, Dinesh Karthik, James Faulkner, Ravindra Jadeja, Basil Thampi, Dhawal Kulkarni, Ankit Soni, Pradeep Sangwan.
Predicted winners: Sunrisers Hyderabad
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