Delhi Daredevils won the toss and decided to bat first against Sunrisers Hyderabad in the forty-second match of the Indian Premier League at the Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi.
Pitch report from Matthew Hayden:
“Typical Delhi track. Looks a really good surface. Not a lot of grass, certainly a lot of bare patches. The average score here batting first has been about the 180-run mark. It’s been a bit lesser this season although some huge scores have been chased down. Sides batting first have won the last six games here and it shall be interesting to see if the chasing team can buck the trend.”
Here is what the captains said:
Shreyas Iyer:
“We would like to bat first. We’ve been really confident in the last few games. We’ve done well doing so in the last few games and the batsmen look confident. We have to stay calm and not worry too much about other things. Ours is a team with good bonding. We’ve three changes.Nadeem, Jason and Harshal come in.”
Kane Williamson:
“We would have batted first as well. Tough to predict the pitch and hopefully, our bowlers can make some early inroads. Hard to control that, either you get to do what you want or you don’t. We chased last game. We can make improve in all areas still, moving forward to the back half of the tournament. Don’t want to get ahead of ourselves. Important to adapt to the surfaces we get. Just one change, Goswami comes in for Saha who is injured.”
Playing elevens:
Sunrisers Hyderabad:
Alex Hales, Shikhar Dhawan, Kane Williamson(c), Manish Pandey, Shakib Al Hasan, Yusuf Pathan, Shreevats Goswami(w), Rashid Khan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Siddarth Kaul, Sandeep Sharma
Delhi Daredevils:
Prithvi Shaw, Jason Roy, Shreyas Iyer(c), Rishabh Pant(w), Glenn Maxwell, Vijay Shankar, Liam Plunkett, Harshal Patel, Amit Mishra, Shahbaz Nadeem, Trent Boult