Match Preview - DC vs SRH thirty fifth Match, IPL

Match particulars

Delhi Capitals (P7 W3 L4 sixth) vs Sunrisers Hyderabad (P6 W4 L2 4th)
New Delhi, 7.30pm IST (2pm GMT)

Huge image – Delhi Capitals’ homecoming

After establishing base in Visakhapatnam for the primary half of the season, Delhi Capitals are again within the nationwide capital for his or her first sport on the Arun Jaitley Stadium this season. Capitals performed two video games in Vizag this yr, successful one and dropping the opposite.

For Capitals captain Rishabh Pant, will probably be his first look in entrance of the Delhi residence crowd after his return to aggressive cricket since his horror automobile crash in December 2022. Pant, after a gradual begin to the season, has discovered his rhythm, scoring 210 from seven video games with two fifties. His strike fee of 156.72 can also be his greatest in an IPL season since 2019. He has been glorious behind the stumps as effectively, and was named Participant of the Match in Capitals’ final sport primarily for his wicketkeeping.

However Capitals’ homecoming may simply find yourself not being a contented one as they go up towards a rampaging Sunrisers Hyderabad aspect that has not as soon as, however twice damaged the file for the very best whole within the historical past of the IPL.

How Khaleel Ahmed and Ishant Sharma go within the powerplay towards Sunrisers’ explosive left-handed opening duo of Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma might be the deciding consider how the match shapes up.

Type information

DC WWLLW (Most up-to-date match first)
SRH WWWLW

Workforce information and Influence Participant technique

Delhi Capitals
Capitals head coach Ricky Ponting was optimistic about opener David Warner coming back from a finger damage. Ponting mentioned Warner was “85-90%” match on the day of their final match in Ahmedabad, however a ultimate name on his availability for Saturday will probably be taken after he trains on the eve of the match towards Sunrisers. If Warner returns, he may slot in straight for Sumit Kumar, as Capitals performed their final match with simply three abroad gamers. However one among Shai Hope or Jake Fraser-McGurk may additionally make manner, if they do not need to mess with their batting order an excessive amount of.

Possible XII: 1 Prithvi Shaw, 2 David Warner, 3 Jake Fraser-McGurk/Shai Hope, 4 Abishek Porel, 5 Rishabh Pant (capt & wk), 6 Tristan Stubbs, 7 Axar Patel, 8 Sumit Kumar, 9 Kuldeep Yadav, 10 Ishant Sharma, 11 Mukesh Kumar, 12 Khaleel Ahmed.

Sunrisers Hyderabad
Sunrisers have a completely match squad and can seemingly area the identical aspect they did of their final match towards Royal Challengers Bengaluru. Whereas Travis Head has been the participant subbed out once they have batted first and subbed in whereas chasing, they are going to seemingly begin with, or usher in, Mayank Markande relying on the toss. Nonetheless, if they’re batting first and are going through a collapse, Rahul Tripathi is an choice as effectively.

Possible XII: 1 Travis Head, 2 Abhishek Sharma, 3 Aiden Markram, 4 Heinrich Klaasen (wk), 5 Abdul Samad, 6 Nitish Kumar Reddy, 7 Shahbaz Ahmed, 8 Pat Cummins (capt), 9 Bhuvneshwar Kumar, 10 Jaydev Unadkat, 11 T Natarajan, 12 Mayank Markande.

Within the highlight – Kuldeep Yadav and Heinrich Klaasen

With Sunrisers boasting of two highly effective spin-hitters in Abhishek Sharma and Heinrich Klaasen, Kuldeep Yadav along with his left-arm wristspin might be key for Capitals. An damage earlier within the season meant he has solely performed 4 video games up to now in IPL 2024, choosing up six wickets, however he has been troublesome to get away. He has achieved an financial system fee of 6.06, and has solely gone for greater than a run a ball as soon as, towards Rajasthan Royals.

With Kuldeep and Axar Patel in Capitals’ ranks, Heinrich Klaasen‘s capacity to take down spin will probably be of nice significance to Sunrisers. Amongst batters with greater than 200 runs, solely Dinesh Karthik has a greater strike fee this season than Klaasen’s 199.21. He’s additionally probably the most prolific six-hitter not solely on this yr’s IPL however in all T20s in 2024.

Pitch and situations

It is the primary sport in Delhi this season, and Ponting mentioned the pitch seemed good with extra grass cowl on the sq. than final yr, and he expects it to play higher than it did in 2023, when Capitals misplaced 5 of their seven residence video games.

Stats that matter

Sunrisers have the 2 quickest scorers within the powerplay this season in Head and Abhishek, who’ve struck at 207 and 206 respectively within the first six overs in IPL 2024.
Pat Cummins has an excellent file towards left-hand batters this season: 5 wickets at a mean of 14.00, and an financial system fee of simply 6.56. He may come up towards three Capitals’ left-handers on Saturday in David Warner, Rishabh Pant and Axar Patel.
Capitals have received 4 of their final 5 matches towards Sunrisers. The one defeat got here on the Arun Jaitley Stadium final yr.

Quotes

“I believe our batsmen are going nice. We do not thoughts having a shootout tomorrow. If it is a high-scoring sport towards Sunrisers, so be it. We all know and anticipate that they are gonna play the best way that they performed up to now within the event, which has been, you already know, going actually onerous on the high of the order with the bat and attempting to publish a giant first-innings whole. So we’re completely happy to try to match them in that. We predict we have pretty much as good a batting line-up if not a greater batting line-up than theirs, so we’ll see how issues work out tomorrow.”
Capitals coach Ricky Ponting is not fazed by Sunrisers’ hitting feats this season

Abhimanyu Bose is a sub-editor with ESPNcricinfo

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Match Preview – DC vs SRH thirty fifth Match, IPL