In the head-to-head battle between the two, SRH take a slight edge with 7 wins as opposed to RR's 6 wins in their 13 meetings so far in IPL.
Occupying the bottom two spots in the points table, both Sanju Samson-led Rajasthan Royals and David Warner’s SunRisers Hyderabad are in trouble. They will look to get back to winning ways after suffering identical seven-wicket defeats in their last outings.
RR were handed their fourth loss of the season by reigning champions Mumbai Indians. SRH suffered their fifth loss to table-toppers Chennai Super Kings. Royals’ two victories came over Delhi Capitals and Kolkata Knight Riders. They have lost to Punjab Kings, MI, CSK and RCB. Sunrisers, on the other hand, won only against PBKS and, suffered defeats to in other games
Wicketkeeper: Jonny Bairstow, Jos Butler.
Batsmen: Manish Pandey, Kane Williamson, Sanju Samson, Riyan Parag.
All-rounders: Vijay Shankar.
Bowlers: Rashid Khan, Chetan Sakariya, Sandeep Sharma, Mustafizur Rahman
Rajasthan Royals: Sanju Samson (captain), Jos Buttler (WK), Yashasvi Jaiswal, David Miller, Riyan Parag, Rahul Tewatia, Chris Morris, Shivam Dube, Shreyas Gopal, Mustafizur Rahman, Chetan Sakariya
SunRisers Hyderabad: David Warner (captain), Jonny Bairstow (wicketkeeper), Manish Pandey, Kane Williamson, Kedar Jadhav, Vijay Shankar, Rashid Khan, Jagadeesha Suchith/Abhishek Sharma, Siddarth Kaul, Khaleel Ahmed, Sandeep Sharma/Bhuvneshwar Kumar
The match will begin at 15:30 PM IST and will take place on May 2.
Rajasthan Royals: Sanju Samson(captain), Ben Stokes, Jofra Archer, Jos Buttler, Riyan Parag, Shreyas Gopal, Rahul Tewatia, Mahipal Lomror, Kartik Tyagi, Andrew Tye, Jaydev Unadkat, Mayank Markande, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Anuj Rawat, David Miller, Manan Vohra, Christopher Morris, Shivam Dube, Chetan Sakariya, Mustafizur Rahman, Liam Livingstone, K.C. Cariappa, Akash Singh, Kuldip Yadav.
Sunrisers Hyderabad: David Warner(c), Kane Williamson, Jonny Bairstow, Manish Pandey, Sreevats Goswami, Wriddhiman Saha, Priyam Garg, Vijay Shankar, Abhishek Sharma, Abdul Samad, Virat Singh, Mitchell Marsh, Jason Holder, Mohammad Nabi, Rashid Khan, Shahbaz Nadeem, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, T. Natarajan, Sandeep Sharma, Khaleel Ahmed, Siddarth Kaul, Basil Thampi, Jagadeesha Suchith, Kedar Jadhav, Mujeeb-ur-Rahman.
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