Sunrisers Hyderabad and Mumbai Indians had contrasting starts to their IPL 2018 campaigns this year. While SRH cruised to a nine-wicket victory in Hyderabad over Rajasthan Royals, Chennai Super Kings pulled off a grand heist to hand Mumbai a heart-breaking one-wicket loss.
Clinical were the Sunrisers against the Royals having all their boxes ticked. Their ground fielding was exceptional with them having saved at least 10-15 runs. Their five main bowlers came together in an effective amalgam to help restrict Rajasthan to a sub-par 125 on a wicket that at least had 150-160 in it.
Head to Head Head to Head (Hyderabad)
SRH - 5 SRH- 3
MI - 5 MI- 2
Interesting Facts
1. Rohit Sharma has scored 429 runs from 13 innings at this venue in IPL games at a strike rate of 144.44.
2. Rohit Sharma has scored 52 runs off 42 balls from Shakib al Hasan without getting dismissed (since 2013)
3. Sandeep Sharma has got Rohit Sharma out twice in 19 balls.
4. Bhuvneshwar Kumar has dismissed Pollard thrice in 12 balls in IPL games since 2013.
5. Since IPL 2015, Bumrah (26) and McClenaghan (25) have conceded second and third most sixes in the last five overs in IPL.
SRH (Probable XI): Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Shikhar Dhawan, Kane Williamson (c), Manish Pandey, Deepak Hooda, Yusuf Pathan, Shakib al Hasan, Rashid Khan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Billy Stanlake, Siddarth Kaul.
MI (Probable XI): Rohit Sharma (c), Evin Lewis, Ishan Kishan (wk), Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya/Saurabh Tiwary, Krunal Pandya, Kieron Pollard, Mayank Markande, Mitchell McClenaghan, Mustafizur Rahman, Jasprit Bumrah.
