Lucknow Super Giants will face Sunrisers Hyderabad at their home venue of Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium, Lucknow on Friday. LSG has won one out of the two matches they have played whereas SRH got off to a losing start in their campaign against Rajasthan Royals.
The KL Rahul-led team won their opening clash against Delhi Capitals but suffered a loss against Chennai Super Kings in their previous game. LSG bowlers will look to pull up their socks as they conceded a huge total of 217 runs in the last game against CSK.
However, LSG will face a sweet selection headache as Quinton de Kock has joined the team. Kyle Mayers, who opened the innings in the absence of the South African, has scored two blistering fifties in the opening games.
On the other hand, Sunrisers Hyderabad was blown away by Rajasthan Royals in their opening clash of the season by a huge margin of 72 runs. The Orange Army has received a huge boost as their captain Aiden Markram has joined the team and he is expected to lead against LSG.
SRH will need to come up with better bowling as well as batting performance as they could not put up a fight against RR.
Match Prediction: Lucknow Super Giants will enter the contest as favorites against Sunrisers Hyderabad because of their team’s balance and home conditions.
LSG IPL 2023 SQUAD
Wicketkeepers: Quinton de Kock (SA), Manan Vohra, Nicholas Pooran (WI),
Batters: KL Rahul, Ayush Badoni.
All-rounders: Krishnappa Gowtham, Deepak Hooda, Kyle Mayers (WI), Krunal Pandya, Karan Sharma, Marcus Stoinis (AUS), Romario Shepherd (WI), Daniel Sams (AUS), Prerak Mankad, Swapnil Singh, Yudhvir Charak,
Bowlers: Avesh Khan, Mohsin Khan, Ravi Bishnoi, Mark Wood (ENG), Mayank Yadav, Jaydev Unadkat, Yash Thakur, Amit Mishra, Naveen-ul-Haq (AFG).
SRH IPL 2023 SQUAD
Wicketkeepers: Glenn Phillips (NZ), Nitish Kumar Reddy, Upendra Singh Yadav, Heinrich Klaasen (SA).
Batters: Abdul Samad, Aiden Markram (SA), Rahul Tripathi, Anmolpreet Singh, Mayank Agarwal, Harry Brook (ENG).
All-rounders: Abhishek Sharma, Washington Sundar, Mayank Dagar, Sanvir Singh, Samarth Vyas, Vivrant Sharma.
Bowlers: Fazalhaq Farooqi (AFG), Marco Jansen (SA), Kartik Tyagi, Bhuveshwar Kumar, T. Natarajan, Umran Malik, Akeal Hosein (WI), Mayank Markande, Adil Rashid (ENG).
