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IPL 2021 | SRH vs RR: With similar woes, distinguished aspirations, Hyderabad lock horns with Rajasthan
This game is cruel. This is a prominent saying that explains how the game of cricket plays a balancing act. And this is what has happened with Sunrisers Hyderabad. The team that didn’t fail to register a place in the playoffs since 2016 is striving to get a second win in the 2021 edition. They have been already knocked out of the tournament after suffering eight defeats in the nine matches that they have played so far in the competition. SRH have failed in certainly all the departments. If the batters were among the runs, the bowlers failed to leave a mark and on the other side, if the bowlers produced a good performance, the batsmen didn’t compliment them with an equal effort. A big instance of this was visible during their match against Punjab Kings on Saturday where the batsmen failed to chase down a paltry total of 126. Though, the pitch didn’t really have much on offer for the batsmen but you are expected to chase down this kind of a target when you have the likes of David Warner and Kane Williamson in the line up. Well, the Hyderabad side did have something to take away from this match and that was Jason Holder’s all-round show where he first picked up three wickets and then struck an unbeaten 47 off 29. The bowlers too did their job pretty well during the course of the match. Rajasthan Royals on the other side, are also coming into this game after losing their last respective encounter against Delhi Capitals by a heavy margin. RR faced the similar issue after their batsmen failed to help the side go over the line while chasing a target of 155 in 20 overs. Captain Sanju Samson though remained not out for 70 but his efforts went in vain as he didn’t really get much help from the other end. The Royals need to get back to the winning ways as quickly as they in order to stay in contention for a playoff spot. RR will be up against SRH in Dubai and this would be the second time when the two sides will be facing each other. They locked horns with each other in the first leg in Delhi where Jos Buttler who is not a part of the Royals setup for the second phase unleashed a brutal assault against the SRH bowlers and hammered a 64-ball 125 to help his side post 220/3 in 20 overs. Later, SRH were restricted to 165/8 as RR won the match by 55 runs. Match Details Match: SRH vs RR, 40th Match, Indian Premier League 2021 Date: Monday, September 27, 2021 Time: 7:30 PM Venue: Dubai International Cricket Stadium , Dubai Telecast: Star Sports Network and Disney Hotstar Pitch Report The track might have something on offer for the batsmen. The batters would need to get their eye in and then look to accelerate. So, if you win the toss, elect to bat first and post a big total on the board. Batting woes If the last respective matches of both the teams are taken into consideration, the two sides have struggled to be among runs. Barring one batsman from each side, the others found it pretty difficult to score runs. Sunrisers Hyderabad might be thinking to make few changes in the line especially in the batting department. Opener David Warner who has been out of form might be replaced by Jason Roy in the top-order. Apart from this, SRH’s middle-order too has had a lean patch. Now, if the franchise wants to finish the tournament on a positive note, the middle-order will play a massive role in it. The script is pretty similar for the Royals too. They are still in contention for a spot in the play offs and if they want to go through, the middle-order needs to go all guns blazing. Bowling vs Bowling Sunrisers have Sandeep Sharma, Jason Holder, Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Rashid Khan in the bowling department. While Sandeep and Bhuvi can unsettle the batsmen with their swing, Holder showed his ability in the last match with the ball as well. He didn’t just pick up wickets but also kept the opposition’s scoring-rate under control. Apart from these three, Rashid Khan can prove to be a trump card for SRH especially when he gets his wrong-un into play. For Rajasthan Royals, Chetan Sakariya, Mustafizur Rahman and Kartik Tyagi have done a decent job. While Mustafizur has used his slower, back of the hand balls quite efficiently not just in IPL but also at the highest level, Tyagi unveiled a great temperament while he was bowling the last over against Punjab Kings where the right-arm pacer defended 4 runs. Team News SRH: The Sunrisers Hyderabad can make a few changes in the XI and test the other players as well. The bowling attack seems to be a stable one at the moment for them but the batsmen need to get back in the groove if the side wants to conclude the tournament on a high. RR: Rajasthan Royals included Tabraiz Shamsi in the last match. The left-arm spinner has been in some form for quite sometime and can create some problems against a struggling SRH middle-order. Probable XI SRH: Kane Williamson (c), Jason Roy, Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Manish Pandey, Abhishek Sharma, Abdul Samad, Jason Holder, Rashid Khan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jagadish Suchith and Basil Thampi. RR: Sanju Samson (c & wk), Evin Lewis, Yashasvi Jaiswal, David Miller, Liam Livingstone, Rahul Tewatia, Mahipal Lomror, Shreyas Gopal, Kartik Tyagi, Mustafizur Rahman and Chetan Sakariya. Fantasy XI Sanju Samson, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Liam Livingstone, Mahipal Lomror, Abdul Samad, Kane Williamson, Jason Holder (VC), Tabraiz Shamsi (C), Mustafizur Rahman, Rashid Khan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar
IPL 2021 | DC vs RR: Royals run into indomitable Capitals after spirit-lifting win over Kings
Not often result of one game depict true picture of the state a team is in but the last games of the Delhi Capitals and the Rajasthan Royals drew a perfect image of where these two sides stand in the ongoing edition of the Indian Premier League. As they have been on the points table, in the race to the final four, the Royals were living on the edge till the last ball of the game and won by a slim margin has been on the brink on the most part of the second innings. On the other hand, the Delhi Capitals were bullish and dominated against a feeble opponent in the form of the Sunrisers Hyderabad in their last game. No wonder, the Rishabh Pant’s Capitals are ruling while the Sanju Samson’s men in pink are gazing at the middle of the points table of the ongoing edition of the IPL. For the Capitals, it was a normal day in the office against the Sunrisers as their two most potent weapons with the ball in Kagiso Rabada and Anrich Nortje ripped the heart of the Sunriers’ batting in the open. The balling examination was followed by a usual batting juggernaut led by the openers in Prithvi Shaw and Shikhar Dhawan. However, it will be the Royals who will be more ecstatic going into the next game albeit the intensity of the momentous challenges the Capitals will throw at them. They will be delighted to see the young guns in Yashasvi Jaiswal, Mahipal Lomror and Karthik Tyagi standing up to be counted in the absence of international stars. No stars? No problem says Indian talents After the withdrawal of Jos Buttler, the last cog of the vital English wheels came off for the Royals and they had no established international stars to boost the aggressive quotient for them, especially at the top of the order with the bat. They signed up Evin Lewis as Buttler’s replacement but the move was a tactical one keeping in mind his form in the recently-concluded CPL instead of a larger strategic one to have a stable top order. However, what they badly needed was an impetus from their Indian players and all those wishes were fulfilled in the first game of the second phase. Yashasvi Jaiswal has been touted as one for the future but the Royals needed him to show belongs to the present as well as they are in a precarious situation in the race for playoffs. He opened the batting with Lewis and showed his full range of shots to establish his belongings at the top of the order. His onslaught was followed by another young batsman’s colossus innings. Mahipal Lomror put waters on all the plans of the Punjab Kings to choke in the middle overs by the experienced leg spinner Adil Rashid. The duo contributed big time in allowing the Royals to set up a big enough total on the board to allow the Kings to mess up a chase in the last over bowled by another young Indian in Karthik Tyagi. Yes, the Royals have not unearthed a young trio of Jaiswal, Lomror and Tyagi to replace the trio of Buttler, Stokes and Archer but the job was well done by the Indian trio and the Royals are alive and kicking in the IPL 2021. However, one of their biggest test will come against the Capitals as the duo of Rabada and Nortje will come steaming in to test their throat and toes while the likes of Pant and Hetmyer will test Karthik’s execution under pressure in the eyes of attack in the last overs. Delhi Capitals vs Rajasthan Royals: Match Details Match number: 36 Date and Time: 15:30 IST (10:00 GMT), 14:00 LOCAL Venue: Sheikh Zayed Cricket Stadium, Abu Dhabi Pitch and Weather The pitches at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium have been a little two-paced in the past and both the pacers and the spinners have enjoyed relatively equal success at this venue in the shortest format. There have been two games this season at this venue and teams have struggled to mount severe damages on the bowling sides in both games. In the first game, the Royal Challengers Bangalore were plummeted to 92 all out while the Mumbai Indians were denied to 155 in the second game against the Kolkata Knight Riders. The game between the Capitals and the Royals will be a day affair and hence high humidity can also help the pacers to swing the ball. Team News Delhi Capitals The Capitals suffered an injury setback in the last game as Marcus Stoinis pulled up while bowling in the last game against the Sunriers and it’s highly likely that the all-rounder will miss the game against the Royals. However, Nortje has said that Stoinis appears to be “good” and “fine” but the management is waiting for the results of the scan. “We are just waiting on some results. He looks good, he is fine. I spoke to him this morning, but we are just waiting for some results. He had gone for a scan,” Nortje said in a virtual press conference. They are already without Chris Woakes who could have been a like for like replacement but the Capitals will now fret over replacing Stoinis without compromising their balance. Stoinis was their sixth bowler who was offering flamboyance to the batting order and the Capitals will struggle to find a replacement of his pedigree in such a short while. They can bring Sam Billings to replace Stoinis, the batsman and bank on an experienced set of five bowlers to deliver four overs each. The combination of Rabada and Nortje is all but likely to continue after they were paired once again after coming to the UAE while the pair of Ravichandran Ashwin and Axar Patel will form the slow-bowling conundrum for the Royals batting lineup. Probable XI Prithvi Shaw, Shikhar Dhawan, Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant (C &WK), Sam Billings, Shimron Hetmyer, Axar Patel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Kagiso Rabada, Anrich Nortje, Avesh Khan Rajasthan Royals Although the Royals have not cracked the perfect playing XI combination yet they are all set to field an unchanged XI more due to lack of options. Their most expensive player Chris Morris had an unforgettable game against the Kings but the team management led by Sanju Samson and Kumar Sangakkara would not be willing to take such a big call of overlooking him that too in the absence of Archer, Stokes and Buttler. The opening pair of Jaiswal and Lewis will continue followed by Samson at number three, Liam Livingstone and Lomror at four and five respectively. The bowling attack will remain to rely on Morris and Tyagi for express pace while the likes of Chetan Sakariya and Mustafizur Rahman will add the variation quotient to the pace department. Rahul Tewatia along with Lomror and Riyan Parag will fill in as bowlers to give Samson more manoeuvrability with the bowling attack. However, one of their biggest test will come against the Capitals as the duo of Rabada and Nortje will come steaming in to test their throat and toes while the likes of Pant and Hetmyer will test Karthik’s execution under pressure in the eyes of attack in the last overs. Probable XI Yashasvi Jaiswal, Evin Lewis, Sanju Samson (C&WK), Liam Livingstone, Mahipal Lomror, Riyan Parag, Rahul Tewatia, Chris Morris, Mustafizur Rahman, Chetan Sakariya, Kartik Tyagi Delhi Capitals vs Rajasthan Royals: Fantasy XI Sanju Samson, Rishabh Pant(WK), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Prithvi Shaw, Chris Morris, Axar Patel, Kartik Tyagi, Mustafizur Rahman, Kagiso Rabada Captain: Shikhar Dhawan Vice-captain: Evin Lewis
Losing close matches has become a pattern for us: PBKS coach Anil Kumble
Punjab Kings head coach Anil Kumble has expressed disappointment at the defeat against Rajasthan Royals and admitted that losing close games has become a “pattern” for the side. “It’s sort of become a bit of a pattern for us, especially as soon as we get to Dubai, it seems. There was a clear message saying we need to finish this game in 19 overs, and that was the approach,” Kumble said at the post-match press conference. Punjab needed four runs in the last over when RR pacer Kaetik Tyagi unveiled his talent and defended the score to anchor his side to a 2-run win in Dubai. The former India player lavished praise on Tyagi and lauded the right-arm bowler for the way he bowled the final over. “But credit to how Tyagi bowled the last over, it was pretty obvious that he’s going to bowl wide outside the off stump, but somehow our batters didn’t take the right options,” Kumble said. Batting first, RR were cruising to a big total at one stage but some fine bowling from Arshdeep and Mohammed Shami in the death overs pulled things back for Punjab and the Royals were bundled out for 185 in 20 overs. Arshdeep bagged a five-wicket haul while Shami scalped three wickets during the course. Later, Punjab began the proceedings in steady manner after captain KL Rahul and opener Mayank Agarwal put 120 runs on the board for the first wicket. While Rahul missed out on a fifty by just one run, Mayank went on to notch up 67 off 43 deliveries. Later, Nicholas Pooran and debutant Aiden Markram held the fort but lost way in the last over as Punjab were restricted to 183/4 in 20 overs. The Royals now have four wins and as many defeats in the eight matches that they have played while Punjab Kings have lost their sixth game in nine matches.