Playing XI
Top Fantasy Picks-All Rounders
With 11 wickets already in just 7 matches, Morris has been chipping up with wickets regularly for his team. At Sharjah he has played 2 matches in which he has managed to score 25 runs and also taken 2 wickets.
With 6 wickets already in 3 matches, Holder has completely filled the bowling void for Hyderabad. Little does everybody know that he can be explosive with the bat as well given the match is at a smaller venue: Sharjah.
Sundar's one of the 2-wkt haul this season (2/20) was indeed at Sharjah the venue of today's match. He can also be handy with the bat given that the venue is small.
Top Fantasy Picks-Bowlers
After producing an IPL career-best figures of 3/7 against Delhi in the last match, Rashid Khan must be feeling much more confident. With 17 wickets so far, he is already at the 7th position in the list of Purple Cap holders.
With 18 wickets so far, he is at the 6th position in the list of Purple Cap holders. He has been amongst wickets in each of his last 7 matches so far this season taking 10 wickets in these matches.
In his first 3 matches this season he managed to take only 3 wickets, but in his recent 3 matches he has picked up 5 wickets at a good economy, thus looking more settled now than earlier.
Top Fantasy Picks-Batsmen and Keepers
Warner has a SR of 164 against Bengaluru which is his personal best against current IPL opponents. In his last 5 matches against them he has piled up massive 281 runs which includes a century and 2 fifties.
With 424 runs Virat is the leader for Bengaluru this season. He has played 4 matches at Sharjah in the IPL and his scores are: 48, 33*, 31 and 49* at this venue.
Padikkal has been a revelation for Bengaluru this season with 417 runs (2nd most for the team) in 12 matches. As context, the last time he played against Hyderabad it was his IPL debut and he scored a fifty (56 from 42 balls).
Preview
Match 52 sees 2 teams from the South, Bangalore and Hyderabad, lock horns.
Bangalore lost to Chennai and Mumbai in their last 2 games but are still at No. 2 on the points table, with 14 points and a positive NRR.
They though need to secure 16 points first and will look to do it in this very clash. But it won't be that easy, as Warner's men are riding sky-high after a clinical performance to thump Delhi in their last game.
The latter whom Bangalore will face in their last league fixture. Bangalore need to get their overall act, especially their bowling together to clinch this one.
For Hyderabad, they need to take their cue from the last game and repeat the same. Win and win with a good boost to their NRR.
If they can do that, they become a serious contender for a playoffs berth as NRR could become a crucial factor.
Probable XI
Hyderabad : David Warner (c), Jonny Bairstow, Manish Pandey, Vijay Shankar, Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Mohammad Nabi, Rashid Khan, Siddarth Kaul, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Khaleel Ahmed, Shahbaz Nadeem
Bangalore : Aaron Finch, Parthiv Patel (wk), Virat Kohli (c), AB de Villiers, Devdutt Padikkal, Shivam Dube, Chris Morris, Yuzvendra Chahal. Navdeep Saini, Umesh Yadav, Adam Zampa
Toss
Hyderabad won the toss and elected to bowl first.