Toss: Kings XI Punjab chose to bowl v Sunrisers Hyderabad
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Mohammad Nabi became the second Afghanistan player to feature in the IPL © IDI/Getty Images
Glenn Maxwell, the Kings XI Punjab captain, has chosen to bowl first against Sunrisers Hyderabad at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium. Both teams come into this match with identical records, having won their first two games of the season, at home, and lost their next two, away.
Sunrisers made three changes to their XI, handing an IPL debut to Mohammad Nabi, the Afghanistan spin-bowling allrounder, and bringing in seamers Barinder Sran and Siddarth Kaul for their first games of the season. They replaced Ben Cutting, Ashish Nehra and Bipul Sharma.
With both Nabi and Rashid Khan in their side, Sunrisers became the first IPL team to field two Associate players in the same XI.
Kings XI only made the one change, replacing Varun Aaron with Ishant Sharma.
Sunrisers Hyderabad: 1 David Warner (capt), 2 Shikhar Dhawan, 3 Moises Henriques, 4 Yuvraj Singh, 5 Deepak Hooda, 6 Mohammad Nabi, 7 Naman Ojha (wk), 8 Rashid Khan, 9 Bhuvneshwar Kumar, 10 Barinder Sran, 11 Siddarth Kaul.
Kings XI Punjab: 1 Manan Vohra, 2 Hashim Amla, 3 Wriddhiman Saha (wk), 4 Glenn Maxwell (capt), 5 Eoin Morgan, 6 David Miller, 7 Axar Patel, 8 Mohit Sharma, 9 KC Cariappa, 10 Sandeep Sharma, 11 Ishant Sharma.
Karthik Krishnaswamy is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo
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