1. Overview
Mumbai Indians and Sunrisers Hyderabad are going to face each other for their 5th match with similar results. Both began the season with 2 losses but bounced back with 2 back-to-back wins. While the streak of one of the sides will break, the other side will have 3 wins on the bounce.
2. Team Previews
Head-to-Head Record: 19 Matches, SRH: 9 Wins and MI: 10 Wins
Sunrisers Hyderabad: Things seems to have started working from them in all departments. Harry Brook’s century is a big plus for them. Add Markram’s and Abhishek’s quick innings and their batting looks even comfortable. Though, they are yet to get any good contribution from Mayank Agarwal but they will only get better when it will come. With Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Umran Malik, Marco Jansen and Mayank Markande, their bowling is never an issue. Playing at home conditions would be another plus for them.
Mumbai Indians: Finally, they handed a debut to Arjun Tendulkar and he was impressive. Though he remained the only bowler not to get a wicket, he was able to control the flow of runs. Also, they have utilized the impact player rule well to rest their skipper Rohit Sharma and tried Suryakumar Yadav as their Stand In captain, while Rohit Sharma continued to bat. While they had to struggle against DC, they looked quite comfortable against the KKR last Sunday.
3. Probable Teams
Sunrisers Hyderabad: Abhishek Sharma, Mayank Agarwal, Rahul Tripathi, Aiden Markram (C), Harry Brook, Heinrich Klaasen (WK), Washington Sundar, Marco Jansen, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Umran Malik, T Natarajan. (Impact Player - Mayank Markande)
Mumbai Indians: Rohit Sharma (C), Ishan Kishan (WK), Tilak Varma, Cameron Green, Suryakumar Yadav, Tim David, Nehal Wadhera, Arjun Tendulkar, Hrithik Shokeen, Piyush Chawla, Duan Jansen (Impact Player - Riley Meredith)
4. Interesting Facts
1) IPL Completes 15 years as the it began on 18th April 2008.
2) Both the sides have exact same form Guide this season so far – LLWW. Interestingly, both these sides come into this match after defeating the same team – Kolkata Knight Riders.
3) Tilak Verma (177) is the only batsman from either side to be in the Top 10 Run Scorers of this season so far.
4) Rohit Sharma (5986) is just 14 Runs short of becoming the 4th player to score 6000 IPL Runs after Virat Kohli, Shikhar Dhawan and David Warner.
5) Aiden Markram (2944) needs 56 Runs to complete 3000 T20 Runs
6) Washington Sundar (90) needs 10 wickets to complete 100 T20 Wickets
7) Adil Rashid (293) needs 7 wickets to complete 300 T20 Wickets
5. Weather and Pitch Report
The temperature is expected to be in the vicinity of 25-32. The pitch will be balanced where Batting would be slightly difficult against spinners. Par Score should be anything in the range of 150-160. Toss winning side will be keen on chasing with dew helping the sides batting second.
6. Match Details
Time: 7:30 PM
Date: 18th April 2023
Venue: Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderabad
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