Both the Sunrisers Hyderabad and the Delhi Daredevils have had a mixed season in the Indian Premier League [IPL] so far and the two sides will face off against each other on Wednesday.
The Sunrisers kept their nerve to pull off a thrilling win against the Kings XI Punjab in their previous match and will be keen to keep that momentum going.
On the other hand, Delhi will be hoping to bounce back after their final over loss against the Kolkata Knight Riders.
Ahead of the match, we have the latest team news, time and date, as well as how you can watch all the action from the UAE.
DATE, TIME, VENUE INFO
Date: April 19, 2017 (Wednesday)
Time: 18:30 GST, 20:00 local time (IST), 14:30 GMT
Venue: Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium, Hyderabad
WHERE TO WATCH, LIVE STREAMING INFO
TV: UAE – OSN Sports Cricket HD, India – Sony Six, Sony Six HD (English), Sony Max, Sony Max HD 3 (Hindi), UK – Sky Sports
Online streaming: hotstar.com, Hotstar app (in India only)
LIVE: Sport360.com
TEAM NEWS, SQUADS, PREDICTED XIs
Bhuvneshwar Kumar. Swing ka Rajkumar. Sensational stuff. India's best T20 Bowler at the moment. #SRHvKXIP #IPL
— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash) April 17, 2017
SRH SQUAD: David Warner, Shikhar Dhawan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Moises Henriques, Mustafizur Rahman, Naman Ojha, Deepak Hooda, Ricky Bhui, Kane Williamson, Siddarth Kaul, Bipul Sharma, Ashish Nehra, Yuvraj Singh, Ben Cutting, Barinder Sran, Abhimanyu Mithun, Vijay Shankar, Tanmay Agarwal, Mohammad Nabi, Ekalavya Dwivedi, Rashid Khan, Pravin Tambe, Chris Jordan, Ben Laughlin, Mohammed Siraj.
Kane Williamson is yet to get a game in this season’s IPL and this might just be the right time for the Sunrisers to promote him to the playing XI.
The Sunrisers batting wasn’t at its best, save David Warner and Naman Ojha, against Punjab and Williamson could help by bringing stability to the team.
PREDICTED SRH XI: Warner (c), Dhawan, Williamson, Yuvraj, Hooda, Ojha (wk), Nabi, Rashid, Bhuvneshwar, Kaul, Nehra.
Pant pant 🙏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 just Amazing 👌🏻 treat to watch him @RishabPant777
— hardik pandya (@hardikpandya7) April 17, 2017
DD SQUAD: Mohammed Shami, Karun Nair, Sam Billings, Shahbaz Nadeem, Jayant Yadav, Amit Mishra, Shreyas Iyer, Zaheer Khan, Sanju Samson, Chris Morris, Carlos Brathwaite, Rishabh Pant, CV Milind, Khaleel Ahmed, Pratyush Singh, Angelo Mathews, Corey Anderson, Kagiso Rabada, Pat Cummins, Ankit Bawne, Aditya Tare, Murugan Ashwin, Navdeep Saini, Shashank Singh, Ben Hilfenhaus.
Karun Nair’s form has been an area of serious concern for the Daredevils and the Delhi think-tank might be tempted to replace him with another Indian batsman.
On the bowling front, South African pacer Kagiso Rabada could replace Pat Cummins who was a touch expensive in the previous game while the impressive Shahbaz Nadeem surely needs to come back into the line-up.
PREDICTED DD XI: Samson, Billings, Karun, Iyer, Pant (wk), Anderson, Morris, Rabada, Shami, Zaheer (c), Nadeem.
FORM
(Last five matches – with latest match first)
SRH: W L L W W
DD: L W W L L
MATCH PREDICTION
The Sunrisers have the stronger team on paper and go into the match as favourites.
