IPL 2020, Match 26: SunRisers Hyderabad (SRH) vs Rajasthan Royals (RR) – Toss Report
Oct 11, 2020 at 3:11 PM
David Warner-led SunRisers Hyderabad (SRH) and Steven Smith-led Rajasthan Royals (RR) are taking on each other at Dubai International Cricket Stadium (Dubai) in the 26th match of the IPL 2020.
Both teams are playing their seventh match of this season. In the IPL 2020 points table, SunRisers Hyderabad are standing in the 5th position with 6 points (3 wins and 3 loses) and Rajasthan Royals are standing in the 7th spot with 4 points (2 wins and 4 loses).
In the last IPL 2019, while they met twice, both teams won their home match. In their last meeting, Rajasthan Royals beat SunRisers Hyderabad by 7 wickets at Jaipur on 27th April 2019 and ended their four-match losing streak against SRH.
IPL 2020, Match 26: SunRisers Hyderabad vs Rajasthan Royals (SRH vs RR) – Toss Report
SunRisers Hyderabad captain David Warner won the toss and decided to bat first. SRH made the only change in the playing XI as Vijay Shankar replaced Abdul Samad.
Warner said, “We’ll bat first. It’s a nice wicket, we will need to make most of the powerplay overs, hopefully, things will go on nicely today. We have a lot of young legs in our team, the seniors take full responsibility. We are taking each game as it comes – Vijay Shankar in and Samad misses out.”
On the other hand, Rajasthan Royals captain Steven Smith confirmed that they made three changes in the playing XI. Ben Stokes, Riyan Parag and Robin Uthappa have replaced Yashasvi Jaiswal, Mahipal Lomror and Andrew Tye.
Smith said, “We can hopefully rectify a few things today. We want to compete today. Looks like a used wicket, could slow down. We’ll have to take some early wickets – Look he trained well and he’s in today (Stokes). Two other changes as well. Stokes, Riyan Parag and Robin Uthappa are back. We’ll need to keep moving forward, we have a good team and we need to compete.”
IPL 2020, Match 26: SunRisers Hyderabad vs Rajasthan Royals (SRH vs RR) – Playing XIs
SunRisers Hyderabad (SRH): David Warner(c), Jonny Bairstow(w), Manish Pandey, Kane Williamson, Vijay Shankar, Priyam Garg, Abhishek Sharma, Rashid Khan, Sandeep Sharma, Khaleel Ahmed, T Natarajan
Rajasthan Royals (RR): Jos Buttler (wk), Robin Uthappa, Sanju Samson, Steven Smith (C), Ben Stokes, Riyan Parag, Rahul Tewatia, Shreyas Gopal, Jofra Archer, Varun Aaron, Kartik Tyagi