Sunrisers Hyderabad’s skipper, Kumar
Sangakkara, won the toss against Royal Challengers Bangalore and his side will
bat primary in the 9th match of the ongoing Indian Premier League Season, at
present being played at the Bangalore, April 9, 2013.
The undefeated franchise complete one
change to the line-up, leaving out left-arm spinner Ankit Sharma, and bring in
batsman Biplab Samantray, in a bid to bolster their batting resources. Sangakkara
expects the playing field to assist the batters.
His counter, Bangalore’s skipper
Virat Kohli, was not too disappointed with the outcome of the throw, claiming
that the track will turn into better as the match progresses. The home surface
made two changes to their playing XI, bringing in South Africa’s ODI skipper,
AB de Villiers in place of the out of form Tillakaratne Dilshan. The Sri Lankan
all-rounder had be in poor knick of late, scoring just 5 runs in the opening
two sports competition, including a duck. As for de Villiers, he recently
arrived after performing his duty for his domestic franchise, the Titans.
The other change come in the bowling
department for the Challengers, where they have included left-arm pacer RP
Singh. He take the place of batsman Karun Nair.
The home side will be looking to
avenge the defeat they suffered at the hands of their current opponent at
Hyderabad just two nights ago. After being tied at the end of the 40 overs, the
Sunrisers won the tie, via the Super Over eliminator, with Cameron White life
form the star of the show.
Hyderabad will be aiming to win their
third consecutive game following wins against the Challengers and Pune
Warriors. The home side made a good start to the season by defeating Mumbai
Indians and will be hoping to return back to winning ways.
Royal Challengers Bangalore: 1 Chris
Gayle, 2 Mayank Agarwal, 3 Virat Kohli (capt), 4 AB de Villiers, 5 Moises
Henriques, 6 Vinay Kumar, 7 Arun Karthik (wk), 8 Murali Kartik, 9 Jaidev
Unadkat, 10 RP Singh, 11 Muttiah Muralitharan
Sunrisers Hyderabad: 1 Akshath Reddy,
2 Parthiv Patel (wk), 3 Kumar Sangakkara (capt), 4 Cameron White, 5 Thisara
Perera, 6 Hanuma Vihari, 7 Biplab Samantray, 8 Ashish Reddy, 9 Amit Mishra, 10
Dale Steyn, 11 Ishant Sharma
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