Sunrisers Hyderabad will face Gujarat Titans today in the 66th match of the Indian Premier League 2024. This match will be played at the home ground Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad from 7.30 pm. The toss of the match will take place at 7 pm. Both the teams will face each other for the second time this season. In the last match, Gujarat had won the match by 7 wickets on home ground. Gujarat is already out of the playoff race. Hyderabad has 14 points from 12 matches with 7 wins and 4 losses. The team is at fourth position in the points table. At the same time, Gujarat is at number 8 in the points table. The team has 11 points from 13 matches with 5 wins and 7 losses. One match of the team was canceled due to rain.
Hyderabad batsmen are in excellent form this season. Two batsmen have scored more than 400 runs. It includes Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma. Head is the team's top scorer with 533 runs. The performance of Gujarat team this season has not been anything special. Apart from Sai Sudarshan and captain Shubman Gill, no batsman of the team is in good form. Sai Sudarshan has scored the most runs for the team. He has 527 runs in his name in 12 matches.
Talking about head to head here, 4 IPL matches have been played between Hyderabad and Gujarat so far. Out of these, 3 matches were won by Gujarat and only 1 match was won by Hyderabad. Gujarat has won all the last three matches played between the two teams. There both the teams will face each other for the first time at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium. The pitch of this stadium is suitable for batting. High scoring matches are seen here. So far 76 IPL matches have been played in this stadium, out of which 34 matches have been won by the teams batting first and 42 matches have been won by the teams batting first.
Probable playing eleven for both the teams-
Sunrisers Hyderabad: Pat Cummins (captain), Travis Head, Nitish Reddy, Heinrich Klaasen (wicketkeeper), Abdul Samad, Shahbaz Ahmed, Sanvir Singh, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, T Natarajan, Jaydev Unadkat, Vijayakanth.
Gujarat Titans: Shubman Gill (captain), Sai Sudarshan, David Miller, Shahrukh Khan, Matthew Wade (wicketkeeper), Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Noor Ahmed, Umesh Yadav, Mohit Sharma and Kartik Tyagi.