Sunrisers Hyderabad will square off against Punjab Kings in the 69th match of the ongoing Indian Premier League at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderabad on Sunday. When these teams met earlier in the season, SRH won the thrilling contest by two runs after Nitish Reddy scored a fine knock of 64 runs.
We take a look at the head-to-head battle, players to watch out for, and squads of both teams in our match preview.
Punjab Kings: W L L W W
Punjab Kings suffered some close losses throughout the season and it led to their downfall. They came up with a fine bowling show in the last game as they restricted RR to a below-par score of 144 on a slow pitch and registered a five-wicket win.
Sunrisers Hyderabad: NR W L W L
SRH have ticked the right boxes as they have come up with a collective show with both bat and ball. Their batting has adopted an aggressive approach, which has paid dividends for the team.
Head to Head: Matches: 22, Won by SRH: 15, Won by PBKS: 7
SRH certainly holds a big advantage against PBKS in H2H.
Players to look out for: Jitesh Sharma, Ashutosh Sharma, Rahul Chahar, Harpreet Brar, Arshdeep Singh, and Shashank Singh will hold the key for PBKS.
Pat Cummins, Rahul Tripathi, Abhishek Sharma, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Heinrich Klaasen, Aiden Markram, and Travis Head will be the crucial players for SRH.
SRH IPL 2024 FULL SQUAD
Abdul Samad, Abhishek Sharma, Aiden Markram, Marco Jansen, Rahul Tripathi, Washington Sundar, Glenn Phillips, Sanvir Singh, Heinrich Klaasen, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mayank Agarwal, T. Natarajan, Anmolpreet Singh, Mayank Markande, Upendra Singh Yadav, Umran Malik, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Shahbaz Ahmed, Travis Head, Wanindu Hasaranga, Pat Cummins ©, Jaydev Unadkat, Akash Singh, Jhathavedh Subramanyan.
PBKS IPL 2024 SQUAD
Wicketkeepers: Jonny Bairstow (ENG), Prabhsimran Singh, Jitesh Sharma.
Batters: Shikhar Dhawan, Harpreet Bhatia, Rilee Rossouw (SA), Shashank Singh.
All-rounders: Liam Livingstone (ENG), Atharva Taide, Rishi Dhawan, Sam Curran (ENG), Sikandar Raza (ZIM), Shivam Singh, Chris Woakes (ENG), Ashutosh Sharma, Vishwanath Singh, Tanay Thyagarajan, Harshal Patel.
Bowlers: Harpreet Brar, Arshdeep Singh, Kagiso Rabada (SA), Nathan Ellis (AUS), Rahul Chahar, Vidhwath Kaverappa, Prince Choudhary.
