Today’s IPL Match SRH vs RR: Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) and Rajasthan Royals (RR) play the biggest game of their season so far when they meet in the IPL 2024 Qualifier 2 at MA Chidambaram Stadium on Friday evening. SRH and RR both finished the league stage on 17 points, with only a superior run-rate keeping Sunrisers above Rajasthan on the table.
Today’s IPL Match SRH vs RR – Key Players
Batters:
Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma and Heinrich Klaasen for Sunrisers Hyderabad
Travis Head is leading the scoring charts for Sunrisers Hyderabad in IPL 2024 having scored 433 runs. The Australian has hit one hundred and four half centuries in 13 innings so far. He is the danger man for RR.
Abhishek Sharma has tried to keep the pace up with Travis Head when it comes to both scoring and strike-rate. With 470 runs, the 22-year-old has racked up the second most runs for SRH this season.
Heinrich Klaasen hold the key for SRH during the middle-overs. He likes to take off right from the first ball and relishes the spinners and slow bowlers as well. The 32-year-old has scored 413 runs while facing just 229 deliveries this season.
Sanju Samson, Riyan Parag and Yashasvi Jaiswal for Rajasthan Royals
After scoring 15, 18 and 17 in the last 3 innings, Sanju Samson must step up and play the captains’ innings in RR’s biggest game of the season. He is capable of doing exactly like that as he has been in fine form all season. RR captain has scored 521 runs in 14 innings this season.
The man of the moment, and RR’s golden boy, Riyan Parag continues to take his game to even higher level. He has been a phenomenal players having scored the most runs for RR this season. Considering he has made 567 runs this season, he has a golden chance of taking his tally over 600 runs which would be exceptional.
Yashasvi Jaiswal needs no introduction at all. He is a regular fixture in Indian team now. Still 22, he is RR’s main batter and holds the key for his team’s success in this match as well as in the final, provided RR beat SRH in this game. He made 45 runs off 30 balls against RCB in Eliminator.
Bowlers:
T Natarajan, Pat Cummins and Bhuvneshwar Kumar for Sunrisers Hyderabad
With 18 wickets in only 12 innings, T Natarajan is the leading wicket-taker for Sunrisers Hyderabad this season. He has often picked up wickets during the death overs and also when the opposing batters are wreaking havoc. He is Pat Cummins’ go-to-man.
SRH captain Pat Cummins and Bhuvneshwar Kumar are equally important for SRH’ chances in this game. Bhuvi gets the new ball and can set the tone for the team with his first spell, while Cummins, more often than not, bowls during the middle-overs and that’s when he can affect the match.
Trent Boult, Avesh Khan and Yuzvendra Chahal for Rajasthan Royals
Trent Boult‘s fiery new-ball spell set the tone for Rajasthan Royals against Royal Challengers Bangalore. He will have to be even better in this game as Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma won’t be wasting deliveries to settle in, for the duo takes off from the first ball.
Avesh Khan also produced good numbers against RCB. Despite going away for 30 runs in the first two overs, he came back with two crucial wickets later in the match. Avesh is certainly the in-form bowler for Rajasthan Royals.
With 18 wickets, Yuzvendra Chahal is the leading wicket-taker for RR this season. He picked up the prized-wicket of Virat Kohli in the Eliminator match and helped his team carve out a win. He is likely to face Heinrich Klaasen in this game and we know that this match-up can really decide the match.
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SRH vs RR Head To Head Record
This will be the 20th meeting between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League with the former winning 10 times and the latter getting 9 wins in 19 head-to-head meetings.
In addition, SRH defeated the RR by the smallest of margin when they got the better of Sanju Samson’s team by just one runs earlier in the season.
| SRH vs RR Head To Head Games | 19 |
| SRH wins vs RR | 10 |
| RR wins vs SRH | 09 |
| No result / tie | 00 |
SRH vs RR Pitch Report
At the start of the IPL 2024 season, the pitch at MA Chidambaram Stadium was flat with batsmen dominating the bowlers. But the nature of the pitch has changed drastically since Punjab Kings defeated Chennai Super Kings on May 1. The surface has become slow and that is down to the pitch being over used due to the amount of games that have been played this season.
Playing XI Of Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Rajasthan Royals
- Openers: Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma
- No-3 and no-4: Rahul Tripathi, Nitish Kumar Reddy
- Middle-order: Shahbaz Ahmed, Heinrich Klaasen (WK), Abdul Samad
- Lower-order & Bowlers: Pat Cummins (C), Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Vijayakanth Viyaskanth, T Natarajan
- Impact Player: Jaydev Unadkat / Sanvir Singh
Playing XI of Rajasthan Royals vs Sunrisers Hyderabad
- Openers: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Tom Kohler-Cadmor
- No-3 and no-4: Sanju Samson (C/WK), Riyan Parag
- Middle-order: Dhruv Jurel, Shimron Hetmyer
- Lower-order & Bowlers: Rovman Powell, Ravichandran Ashwin, Trent Boult, Avesh Khan, Sandeep Sharma
- Impact Player: Yuzvendra Chahal
