IPL 2022: RCB revenge or SRH’s double

The 54^th match of IPL 2022 will see Sunrisers Hyderabad take on Royal Challengers Bangalore at the Wankhede Stadium. This is the second match between the two this season.

RCB is currently at the 4^th position with 6 wins and 5 defeats. RCB has 4 matches remaining to play in this tournament including this one. In order to qualify for the playoffs, RCB has to win all the remaining games. Earlier in the last meeting between the two, SRH handed a humiliating defeat to RCB, dismissing the whole RCB team for 68 runs in 8 overs.

On the other hand, SRH is in 6^th position with 5 wins and 5 defeats. They have one more extra game in hand than RCB. Hyderabad also needs to win all the remaining matches to qualify for the playoffs.

Match Details:

Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Sunrisers Hyderabad

Venue: Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai

Date & Time: 8th May at 3:30 PM IST and Local Time

Live Streaming: Star Sports Network and Disney+Hotstar

Pitch Report:

The pitch is spin-friendly and also there is help for fast bowlers as the pitch provides swing too. There will be no dew factor as the game will be over till 7 PM IST.

Head-to-Head:

Total matches played: 21

Royal Challengers Bangalore won: 8

Sunrisers Hyderabad won: 12

No result: 1

Probable Starting XI:

Royal Challengers Bangalore: Faf Du Plessis (c), Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar, Glenn Maxwell, Shahbaz Ahmed, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Mahipal Lomror, Wanindu Hasaranga, Harshal Patel, Mohammed Siraj, Josh Hazlewood.

Sunrisers Hyderabad: Abishek Sharma, Kane Williamson (c), Rahul Tripathi, Aiden Markram, Nicholas Pooran (wk), Shashank Singh, Sean Abbott, Shreyas Gopal, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, T Natarajan/Kartik Tyagi, Umran Malik.

Match Prediction:

Both the teams are at the business end of this season’s tournament and are in a phase where they need to win this match to guarantee their place in the playoffs. It will surely be a tough fight. The team that bats second will have a high probability of winning the match.