Sunrisers Hyderabad will square off against Rajasthan Royals in the second qualifier of IPL 2024 at the MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai on Friday. When these two teams met earlier in the season, SRH registered a thrilling one-run win with Bhuvneshwar Kumar trapping Rovman Powell in front of the wickets on the final ball.
We take a look at the head-to-head battle, Players to watch out for, and Squads of both teams in our match preview.
Rajasthan Royals: W NR L L L
Rajasthan Royals’ bowlers deserve a lot of credit for their fine performance against RCB. Ravichandran Ashwin once again proved his mettle as he returned with impressive figures of 2-19 in his quota of four overs. Moreover, Avesh Khan bagged three wickets for RR.
Sunrisers Hyderabad: L W NR W L
The Orange Army needs to come up with a collective batting effort. They were not at their best in the first qualifier against KKR and they need to come up with a better performance against RR.
Head to Head: Matches: 19, Won by RR: 9, Won by SRH: 10.
Players to watch out for: Sanju Samson, Riyan Parag, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Dhruv Jurel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Sandeep Sharma, Trent Boult, and Yuzvendra Chahal will hold the key for RR.
Pat Cummins, Abhishek Sharma, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Heinrich Klaasen, 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.
RR SQUAD FOR IPL 2024
Sanju Samson (c), Jos Buttler, Shimron Hetmyer, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Dhruv Jurel, Riyan Parag, Donovan Ferreira, Kunal Rathore, Ravichandran Ashwin, Kuldeep Sen, Navdeep Saini, Prasidh Krishna, Sandeep Sharma, Trent Boult, Yuzvendra Chahal, Adam Zampa, Avesh Khan, Rovman Powell, Shubham Dubey, Tom Kohler-Cadmore, Abid Mushtaq, Nandre Burger.
