Playing XI
Venue Insights (Dubai)
Highest Team Total : 206/3 By Punjab Against Bangalore In 2020.
Lowest Team Total : 109/10 By Bangalore Against Punjab In 2020.
Highest Individual Score : 132 By KL Rahul (Punjab) Against Bangalore In 2020.
Best Bowling Figures : 4/14 By Mohit Sharma (Chennai) Against Mumbai In 2014.
Highest Partnership : 181 By Shane Watson And Faf Du Plessis (Chennai) For 1st Wicket Against Punjab In 2020.
Win Rate Batting First : 40% (4 Won; 6 Lost)
Top Fantasy Picks-All Rounders
With figures of 3/33 and 2/27 so far this season, Holder looks more than promising for Hyderabad with the ball. Do watch out for him as his bat can also do the talking.
Stoinis has so far taken 8 wickets and scored 232 runs at a heavy strike rate this season, thus giving a tough competition to all the other all-rounders.
With 85 runs, 2 wickets, 1 catch and 1 direct run-out in the last 3 matches, Shankar is proving why he is one of the better all-rounders in Indian cricket currently.
Top Fantasy Picks-Bowlers
Rabada should be the first choice pick as he is the purple cap holder with 23 wickets. Stat alert: He has taken at least a wicket in his last 25 IPL matches (total 51 wickets in these matches)
Nortje has taken 2 wickets each in his last 3 matches (Figures of 2/27, 2/44 and 2/33) and looks to be in a good rhythm.
With figures of 3/14 (this season), 2/15 and 1/22 in his last 3 matches against Delhi, Rashid is a must-have in your team. Also, this season in 11 matches he has been wicket-less only 3 times.
Top Fantasy Picks-Batsmen and Keepers
With scores of 45 and 51 in his last 2 matches against Delhi, Warner will look to continue the said momentum. With 370 runs, he is the leader for Hyderabad in batting.
Shikhar Dhawan might have scored a single-digit score in the last match, but before that, he had two back to back centuries and two fifties thus proving his purple patch.
With 382 runs in 11 matches, Iyer is the 2nd highest run-getter for Delhi this season. He has managed to score 113 runs in the 4 matches against Hyderabad which is more than decent.
Probable XI
Hyderabad - David Warner(c), Jonny Bairstow(wk), Manish Pandey, Vijay Shankar, Priyam Garg, Abdul Samad, Jason Holder, Rashid Khan, Khaleel Ahmed, Sandeep Sharma, T Natarajan.
Delhi - Shikhar Dhawan, Ajinkya Rahane, Shreyas Iyer(c), Rishabh Pant(wk), Marcus Stoinis, Shimron Hetmyer, Axar Patel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Kagiso Rabada, Tushar Deshpande, Anrich Nortje.
Preview
The race to the top 4 is intensifying and in a bid to keep their campaign alive, Hyderabad will be taking on Delhi in Match 47 of the Indian T20 League 2020 in Dubai.
The team from the south is coming from a heartbreaking loss against Punjab where they gifted away a win and now find themselves in the bottom half of the table. It was a perfect game for them with the ball and their batting also initiated well but then suddenly they lost the plot at the death.
Warner would like to avoid those hiccups in the coming matches. Delhi, on their part, are appearing to be running out of gas after an amazing run this season.
On a 2-match losing streak, they need to pull up their socks, especially in the batting department that has been below-par of late. Expect a thriller in this crunch match.
Toss : Delhi won the toss and elected to bowl first.