The Delhi Daredevils are looking for the crucial win against the defending champions Sunrisers as they are languishing at the bottom of the table with just two wins from 8 matches. While Sunrisers are on the brink of qualifying for the playoff having already won six of their nine matches. If they win today, SRH moves up to the second position in the leaderboard.

Head to Head

The two side faced each other earlier in the season, with Kane Williamson’s brilliant 89 helped Sunrisers put up 191 and prevailed by 15 runs. In terms of overall, Hyderabad and Delhi have met nine times, Sunrisers have a 6-3 advantage from the nine times the two sides have met.

Quick Stats

• Delhi Daredevils have suffered defeated on both occasions they faced Sunrisers at their fortress Feroz Shah Kotla.
• Daredevil’s stand-in captain Karun Nair is having a difficult season, averaging 12.71 which is the worst among batsmen who have featured in the top order and have played a minimum of five innings. In seven innings he has only scored 89 runs in total.
• Sunrisers have got 32 out of their 59 wickets through the pair of Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Rashid Khan, which amounts to 54.2% of the team`s wickets - the highest for a single pair this season. Daredevils, similarly, have relied heavily on pairs: Pat Cummins and Chris Morris have accounted for 48.8% of the team`s wickets, while the combinations of Morris and Mishra, and Zaheer Khan and Morris have each contributed to 44.2% of Daredevils` wickets.
• Delhi Daredevils has been the only opponent to deny Rashid Khan a wicket this season; the SRH leg-spinner has picked up at least one wicket in each of his remaining 8 matches.
• The Delhi Daredevils have the best overall (bowling) economy rate this season – 8.08.

The likely XIs

Delhi Daredevils: 1 Sanju Samson, 2 Sam Billings, 3 Marlon Samuels, 4 Rishabh Pant (wk), 5 Shreyas Iyer, 6 Karun Nair (capt), 7 Chris Morris, 8 Kagiso Rabada, 9 Shahbaz Nadeem/Jayant Yadav, 10 Amit Mishra, 11 Mohammed Shami

Sunrisers Hyderabad: 1 David Warner (capt), 2 Shikhar Dhawan, 3 Kane Williamson, 4 Yuvraj Singh, 5 Moises Henriques, 6 Naman Ojha (wk), 7 Bipul Sharma/Deepak Hooda, 8 Bhuvneshwar Kumar, 9 Rashid Khan, 10 Siddarth Kaul, 11 Mohammed Siraj

Source: NYOOOZ DESK - IPL