Mullanpur. The Punjab Kings team, which performed well last year, will try to maintain its form in the match on Saturday against Sunrisers Hyderabad, which is still struggling in the IPL. Looking at the performance of last year’s runners-up Punjab Kings so far, they will not be happy with sharing points in the last match against Kolkata Knight Riders which was canceled due to rain. Under the captaincy of Shreyas Iyer, Punjab Kings have shown what the attitude of a winning team should be. Be it easily achieving the target of more than 200 runs against Chennai Super Kings or defeating Gujarat Titans on the difficult pitch of Mullanpur.
In the history of IPL, these two teams have clashed a total of 24 times. The results of these matches are shocking. Hyderabad team has won 17 matches on the basis of its lethal bowling and systematic batting. At the same time, the Punjab Kings team has been able to taste victory only on 7 occasions.
Punjab Kings also had a good start against KKR at Eden Gardens. His Australian fast bowler Xavier Bartlett had taken two wickets in the beginning, but due to heavy rain and storm he had to share the points. Opener and wicketkeeper Prabhsimran Singh, who scored more than 500 runs last season, made the team’s vision clear. He said that the players of Punjab Kings are not in the race for Orange Cap or Purple Cap, but are focusing on the collective success of the team.
Punjab vs Hyderabad head to head record.
This thinking is also visible in Cooper Connolly’s unbeaten inning of 72 runs against Gujarat Titans and Vijaykumar Vaishak’s bowling. As far as Sunrisers Hyderabad is concerned, the same cannot be said for them. Sunrisers have strong batsmen in the top order, but due to their absence, the team is in trouble. This was seen against Royal Challengers Bangalore and Lucknow Super Giants when the opening pair of Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma were out early.
Sunrisers’ problems have increased further due to the failure of bowlers like Harshal Patel and Jaydev Unadkat. Their players will try to take inspiration from the good performance of Nitish Kumar Reddy and Heinrich Klaasen against LSG. Spinner Harsh Dubey has performed well in the powerplay and he is expected to maintain his form. Unadkat had given 50 runs in 23 balls in the last match and he will have to compensate for this. This left arm fast bowler had to save nine runs in the last over against LSG, but he failed in it.
The team is like this
Punjab Kings: Shreyas Iyer (captain), Arshdeep Singh, Priyansh Arya, Paila Avinash, Azmatullah Omarzai, Xavier Bartlett, Yuzvendra Chahal, Cooper Connolly, Praveen Dubey, Ben Dwarshuis, Lockie Ferguson, Harnoor Singh, Harpreet Brar, Marco Yanson, Musheer Khan, Vishal Nishad, Mitchell Owen, Prabhsimran Singh. (Wicketkeeper), Shashank Singh, Marcus Stoinis, Suryansh Shedge, Vishnu Vinod, Vijaykumar Vaishak, Nehal Wadhera, Yash Thakur.
Sunrisers Hyderabad: Ishan Kishan (captain and wicketkeeper), Abhishek Sharma, Amit Kumar, Salil Arora, Brayden Carse, Pat Cummins, Harsh Dubey, Cranes Fultra, Travis Head, Prafulla Hinge, Heinrich Klaasen, Liam Livingstone, Ishan Malinga, Kamindu Mendis, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Harshal Patel, David Payne, Saqib Hussain, Shivam Mavi, Shivang Kumar, Ravichandran Smaran, Omkar Tarmale, Jaydev Unadkat, Aniket Verma, Zeeshan Ansari.
