Shaun Tait and Sanjay Manjrekar pick their XIs for Sunrisers Hyderabad and Kings XI Punjab (4:34)
Toss Kings XI Punjab chose to bowl v Sunrisers Hyderabad
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Kings XI captain R Ashwin called correctly at the toss and inserted Sunrisers Hyderabad on a grassy pitch in Hyderabad. Kings XI made two changes with Chris Gayle making a return, after pulling up sore against Delhi Daredevils, and Manoj Tiwary getting his first match of IPL 2018. This meant David Miller and Yuvraj Singh were dropped.
According to Smart Stats – ESPNcricinfo’s new metric to make sense of numbers in the shortest format – Yuvraj has cost Kings XI 22.87 runs this season, and his scratchy 14 off 17 balls against Daredevils contributed to a below-par total on Monday.
Sunrisers, on the other hand, retained the team that had defended 118 against Mumbai Indians. Bhuvneshwar Kumar, who had missed that game because of injury, hasn’t recovered yet.
When these two sides met last week, Chris Gayle shellacked 104 not out off 63 balls to consign Sunrisers to a 15-run defeat.
Sunrisers Hyderabad: 1 Shikhar Dhawan, 2 Kane Williamson (capt), 3 Wriddhiman Saha (wk), 4 Manish Pandey, 5 Shakib Al Hasan, 6 Yusuf Pathan, 7 Mohammad Nabi, 8 Rashid Khan, 9 Sandeep Sharma, 10 Basil Thampi, 11 Sid Kaul
Kings XI Punjab: 1 Chris Gayle, 2 KL Rahul (wk), 3 Mayank Agarwal, 4 Karun Nair, 5 Aaron Finch, 6 Manoj Tiwary, 7 R Ashwin (capt), 8 Andrew Tye, 9 Barinder Sran, 10 Ankit Rajpoot, 11 Mujeeb Ur Rahman
Source: ESPN Crickinfo