Lagatar24 Desk
Bottom-placed Sunrisers Hyderabad will face table-toppers Chennai Super Kings in the 44thmatch of the IPL 2021.This match between both the teams will be played on the ground of Sharjah.
Dhoni-led Chennai have almost confirmed their place in the play-offs with 16 points from 10 matches. A win in this match will strengthen the team’s claim of finishing the league stage while staying in the top-2.On the other hand Hyderabad team has only 4 points from 10 matches. Hyderabad may still have chances to reach the playoffs, but the reality is that the team is almost out of the competition to reach the last-4 group and will play the rest of the matches as a fight for respect.
Chennai has a strong and stable team. Faf du Plessis and Rituraj Gaikwad give a good start to the team. In 10 matches, these two Chennai openers have made 50+ partnership five times. In the current season, Faf du Plessis has scored 394 and Rituraj Gaikwad has scored 362 runs. After this, in the form of Moeen Ali, the team has such a player who has the ability to bat at number 3 as well as bowl a few overs. In addition to this, Ambati Rayudu, Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja are also there. On the other hand, for Roy played a fine innings of 60 runs in the last match against RR in his debut for Hyderabad. His form could be a big plus point for SRH.
This year at Sharjah Cricket Stadium, batters are struggling to score runs due to the slowness in the wicket. In the 2020 IPL, an average of 178 runs were scored in the first innings, but this time a new pitch has been made which is quite slow and it is not easy to play shots. Due to this the average first innings score in Phase-2 has come down to 136.
