Overview:
Sunrisers Hyderabad hang in this tournament by a very thin thread and a win here can inject some life in their currently helter-skelter campaign even though they would need some other results to go their way apart from winning their remaining games.
Mumbai Indians started off their campaign with 8 straight losses and were the first side to be knocked out of IPL 2022. Post that, they found some sort of momentum as they registered 3 wins in 4 games. They would like to keep the good work going which will give them the confidence for the next season and may help them escape the embarrassment of wooden spoon this season.
Both these sides have somewhat similar stories as they struggled heavily owing to their batsmen who have failed miserably to click together as a single unit. Rohit Sharma and Kane Williamson's poor run has haunted their sides heavily as these international stars were expected to lead from the front owing to the experience and the amount that had been shelled by their respective franchises in an order to retain them. Expensive young buys like Ishan Kishan and Abhishek Sharma have been blowing hot and cold and have been inconsistent. There have been some positives for them like Tilak Varma and Tim David for MI and Rahul Tripathi and Aiden Markram for SRH but as mentioned earlier, both these sides have displayed grit only in bits and pieces and not collectively as a batting unit.
Probable XI:
MI: Ishan Kishan (wk), Rohit Sharma, Tilak Varma, Ramandeep Singh, Tristan Stubbs, Tim David, Hrithik Shokeen, Daniel Sams, Kumar Kartikeya, Jasprit Bumrah, Riley Meredith
SRH: Kane Williamson, Abhishek Sharma, Rahul Tripathi, Aiden Markram, Nicholas Pooran (wk), Shashank Singh, Washington Sundar, Marco Jansen, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Umran Malik, T Natarajan
Statistics/Approaching Milestones:
Head-to-head: Both these sides have faced each other in 18 IPL matches, with MI winning 10 and SRH winning 8.
0 – Sunrisers Hyderabad haven't won a game this IPL season while batting first. All their five wins have come whilst chasing the total.
1 – Jasprit Bumrah needs to take one more wicket to become the first Indian pacer to 250 wickets in T20 cricket.
2 – Daniel Sams needs to take two more wickets to reach 100 wickets in T20 cricket.
2 – Kane Williamson needs to hit two more sixes to reach 150 sixes in T20 cricket.
3 – Rohit Sharma needs to hit three more fours to reach 900 fours in T20 cricket. He will become the third Indian player to the milestone, after Shikhar Dhawan and Virat Kohli.
9 – Out of the nine matches SRH played at Wankhede Stadium, they have won only once. This win came against Mumbai Indians in 2018.
40 – Runs needed by Ishan Kishan to score 1500 runs for Mumbai Indians in the IPL. He will become the first left-hand batter to score 1500 runs for MI in the league.
431 – Runs scored by Kieron Pollard against Sunrisers Hyderabad at an average of 43.10 and strike rate of 146.60 in the IPL. His average against SRH is the highest amongst all oppositions.
1 – Washington Sundar (49) is one game away from appearing in 50 matches in the IPL.
1 – Shreyas Gopal (49) needs just one scalp to complete 50 wickets in the IPL.
1 – Gopal (49) is also one match away from appearing in 50 games in the league.
8 – Kane Williamson (542) requires eight fours to get to 550 fours in the T20 matches.
68 – Rohit Sharma (4932) is 68 runs away from completing 5000 runs for MI in T20 cricket.
1 – Nicholas Pooran (49) requires one more four to reach 50 fours in the cash-rich league.
1 – Tim David (149) needs just one more four to complete 150 fours in T20 cricket.
4 – Abdul Samad (46) needs just four more sixes to get to 50 maximums in the T20 matches.
5 – Samad (45) also requires five more fours to reach 50 fours in T20 cricket.
8 – Pooran (292) is eight fours away from completing 300 fours in the T20 games.
7 – Rahul Tripathi (93) is seven big hits away from reaching 100 sixes in the T20 matches.
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