NEW DELHI: Sunrisers Hyderabad captain Pat Cummins won the toss and opted to bat in the Indian Premier League match against Delhi Capitals at the Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium in Visakhapatnam on Sunday.
Sunrisers Hyderabad made one change from the previous match against Lucknow Super Giants, bringing in Zeeshan Ansari in place of Simranjeet Singh.
“We’ll have a bat. Afternoon game, tends to be hot. Looks like a good wicket, put a big score hopefully. That was the trend last year – we put on some big scores. So, playing to our strengths. We weren’t too worried either way. Playing the way we do, you got to accept that some games it’s not going to work out. One positive from the last game is we were a long way from our best, few things went wrong and we still got almost 200 runs. The boys are still positive. so keen to get out there. Zeeshan comes in for Simarjeet,” SRH skipper Cummins said.
Delhi Capitals captain Axar Patel too made one change to the side by bringing in India wicketkeeper-batter KL Rahul in place of Sameer Rizvi.
KL Rahul had missed the opening match against Lucknow Super Giants to be with his wife for the birth of their first child.
“We would have batted as well as it’s an afternoon game. In the last game, the ball was doing more in the second innings. We’ll look to restrict them to a low total. We have played one game here, we were working on our plans based on our opponents. We need to be brave as a bowling unit. We have certain plans and we have an aggressive mindset. One change, Sameer Rizvi is out, KL Rahul is in,” DC skipper Axar said.
KL Rahul will be playing his first match of the IPL 2025.
A pivotal figure in India’s Champions Trophy triumph earlier this month, KL Rahul was acquired by Delhi Capitals for Rs 14 crore. However, despite his experience, he opted to play under Axar Patel’s leadership instead of captaining the side himself.
Teams:
Delhi Capitals: Jake Fraser-McGurk, Faf du Plessis, Abishek Porel (wk), KL Rahul, Axar Patel (c), Tristan Stubbs, Vipraj Nigam, Mitchell Starc, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohit Sharma, Mukesh Kumar.
Sunrisers Hyderabad: Abhishek Sharma, Travis Head, Ishan Kishan, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Heinrich Klaasen (wk), Aniket Verma, Abhinav Manohar, Pat Cummins, Zeeshan Ansari, Harshal Patel, Mohammed Shami.
Here are the Impact substitutes for both the teams:
Sunrisers Hyderabad Impact Subs: Sachin Baby, Eshan Malinga, Simarjeet Singh, Adam Zampa, Wiaan Mulder
Delhi Capitals Impact Subs: Karun Nair, Ashutosh Sharma, Sameer Rizvi, Donovan Ferreira, Tripurana Vijay
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