Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) will take on Mumbai Indians (MI) in the 25th game of the IPL 2023 at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad. Both teams have had similar luck this season. They lost their opening two games and have won the previous two. Sunrisers defeated Kolkata Knight Riders in their last game by 23 runs after posting a total of 228 runs for the loss of four wickets on the board. Harry Brook and Aiden Markram played crucial roles for the team. Brook scored his maiden century, while Markram made a half-century. KKR did well with the bat but couldn’t cross the line. Mayank Markande was the most successful bowler for SRH, as he picked up two wickets for 27 runs in four overs.
Mumbai Indians also played their previous game against Kolkata Knight Riders. KKR posted a decent total of 185 runs for the loss of six wickets in 20 overs with the help of a century from Venkatesh Iyer. Rohit Sharma and Ishan Kishan provided a flying start to the team as they added 65 runs for the first wicket. Suryakumar Yadav and Tilak Varma played crucial roles for MI in the middle overs. MI chased down the target of 186 runs in just 17.4 overs with five wickets in hand.
PROBABLE PLAYING XI
Sunrisers Hyderabad
Mayank Agarwal, RA Tripathi, HC Brook, AK Markram(C), Abhishek Sharma, M Jansen, H Klaasen(wk), Umran Malik, B Kumar, T Natarajan, M Markande
BENCH : Washington Sundar, Glenn Phillips, AU Rashid, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Abdul Samad, UD Yadav, Vivrant Sharma, MJ Dagar, K Nitish Kumar Reddy, SB Vyas, Anmolpreet Singh, Sanvir Singh, AJ Hosein, Kartik Tyagi
Mumbai Indians
Rohit Sharma(C), SA Yadav, Tim David, Tilak Varma, H Shokeen, C Green, Piyush Chawla, N Wadhera, AS Tendulkar, Ishan Kishan(wk), Riley Meredith
BENCH : T Stubbs, JP Behrendorff, Arshad Khan, K Kartikeya, Ramandeep Singh, S Sandeep Warrier, Vishnu Vinod, Dewald Brevis, Raghav Goyal, Jofra Archer, SZ Mulani, D Jansen, Akash Mandwaal, JA Richardson
PITCH REPORT
The pitch at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad has provided a lot of support to the batters in the two games in the tournament so far. Batters will likely dominate this game as well, and this might be a high-scoring game. The average first innings score in the last five T20 games has been 178 runs.
