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Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) will face Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) today in the 41st match of IPL 2024. The match will be played at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, home ground in Hyderabad, from 7:30 pm onwards. The toss will take place at 7:00 pm.
Both the teams will face each other for the second time this season. In the last match played in Bengaluru, the home team had to face defeat by 25 runs. In this match, Hyderabad made the highest score (287) of IPL.
This will be Hyderabad’s eighth match this season. The team is at third place in the points table with 10 points after 5 wins and 2 losses out of 7. On the other hand, Bengaluru will have its ninth match. The team won only 1 match out of 8, while faced defeat in 7. RCB is at the bottom of the table at 10th position with 2 points.
Hyderabad dominates in head to head
Hyderabad dominates Bengaluru in head to head. A total of 24 IPL matches have been played between the two teams so far. Hyderabad won 13 and Bengaluru won 10. Whereas the result of one match could not be declared.
Hyderabad batsmen’s excellent form continues, Head scored more than 300 runs
Hyderabad lost the first match of the season against Kolkata. Defeated Mumbai in the second match. The team again lost against Gujarat in the third match, but after this it won 4 consecutive matches. Defeated Chennai, Punjab, Bengaluru and Delhi.
Hyderabad’s Travis Head, Heinrich Klaasen and Abhishek Sharma are in excellent form. All three have scored more than 250 runs. Head is the top scorer with 324 runs. In bowling, T Natarajan is the top wicket taker with 10 wickets. Captain Pat Cummins is at second place with 9 wickets.
Kohli top scorer of both RCB and league
Bengaluru has lost 7 matches of the season. It lost against Chennai, Kolkata, Lucknow, Rajasthan, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Kolkata. The team won only one match against Punjab.
Former team captain Virat Kohli is also the top scorer of RCB and the league this season. At present Kohli is the only Orange Cap holder. He has 379 runs in his name in 8 matches. Yash Dayal is on top in bowling with 7 wickets.
pitch report
Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium is known for its flat wicket. The pitch here is batting friendly. The bowlers also get some help here.
So far 73 IPL matches have been played in this stadium, out of which 32 matches have been won by the team batting in the first innings and 41 matches have been won by the team batting first.
The highest team score of this ground is 277/3. Which Hyderabad had made against Mumbai Indians this season.
weather condition
The weather in Hyderabad on 25th April will be very hot. There is an orange alert for heat wave for this day. The temperature here is expected to be 40 to 27 degrees on the day of the match. There is absolutely no possibility of rain on this day.
Possible playing 11 of both the teams
Sunrisers Hyderabad: Pat Cummins (captain), Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Aiden Markram, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Heinrich Klaasen (wk), Abdul Samad, Shahbaz Ahmed, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, T Natarajan and Mayank Markande.
Impact Player: Washington is beautiful.
Royal Challengers Bangalore: Faf du Plessis (captain), Virat Kohli, Will Jacques, Rajat Patidar, Cameron Green, Dinesh Karthik (wicketkeeper), Mahipal Lomror, Karn Sharma, Lockie Ferguson, Mohammed Siraj and Yash Dayal.
Impact Players: Suyash Prabhudesai.