Wednesday , December 25 2024

Sports: Hardik and Mumbai will go to maintain their reputation, match with in-form Hyderabad today

Pat Cummins's team will look to extend its win when the confident Sunrisers Hyderabad team takes on the in-form team against five-time champions Mumbai Indians, who are out of the play-off race on Monday. Hyderabad is in fourth place with 12 points and will try its best to strengthen its claim for the playoffs. Captain Hardik Pandya and his team will try to maintain their reputation by winning the remaining matches. Due to delay in batting on Wankhede pitch, Hyderabad batsmen will once again try to score big. However, due to extreme heat on Friday, the pitch slowed down and both Mumbai and Kolkata batsmen struggled to score runs. Hyderabad team will expect another big innings from Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Henry Klaasen. South Africa will expect good scores from Markram.

Mumbai's campaign is over but its T20 World Cup players Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar, captain Hardik and Bumrah will be able to focus on their individual performances. Rohit's aggressive batting strategy has not been effective in all the innings. Suryakumar also needs to perform well consistently. Hardik will have to give a match-winning performance with both ball and bat.