Chris Gayle. (BCCI Photograph)

Hyderabad: A charged up Sunrisers Hyderabad could have revenge on their minds once they face an in-form Kings XI Punjab within the Indian Premier League on Thursday.The reside telecast of the IPL 2018 fit between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Kings XI Punjab will get started at eight PM on April 26th (Thursday). These days’s IPL reside fit may also be observed at the Famous person Sports activities community and IPL on-line loose reside streaming will likely be to be had on hotstar.com and Jio app. You’ll additionally observe our reside weblog for ball-by-ball updates and research on cricketnext.com.

Sunrisers defended a modest 118 towards Mumbai Indians ultimate evening to carry their marketing campaign again on course after struggling back-to-back defeats.

In spite of lacking the products and services of injured Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Sunrisers confirmed their bowling prowess. Pacer Siddarth Kaul and leg-spinner Rashid Khan helped the house group brush aside the two-time champions for 87 on a sluggish wicket on the Wankhede Stadium to file a 31-run victory.

Sunrisers have regarded a balanced facet with skipper Kane Williamson main from the entrance with 259 runs and Kaul status out with 9 wickets within the match up to now.

It used to be KXIP who had passed out a 15-run loss to the Sunrisers previous at Mohali.

They have been, if truth be told, blown away by way of Chris Gayle, who had cracked a 63-ball 104. The West Indian T20 exponent has regarded in ominous type this season with 100 and two fifties.

Alternatively, Gayle had ignored the ultimate fit towards Delhi Daredevils as he used to be a bit of sore and Punjab would hope the opener makes it to the enjoying XI day after today.

His opening spouse Ok L Rahul too has regarded in excellent contact scoring 236 runs together with two half-centuries. Sunrisers will likely be once more banking at the unhealthy duo to offer them every other flying get started whilst Hyderabad will likely be fascinated with brushing aside them affordably.

In Bhuvneshwar’s absence, Siddarth and Basil Thampi should take the duty early on and the the spin trio of Rashid, Shakib Al Hasan and Mohammad Nabi will hang the important thing within the center overs.

A number of the batsmen, Sunrisers would hope Shikhar Dhawan, who had suffered successful within the elbow throughout the fit towards KXIP and ignored a fit, reveals his contact once you have out affordably within the ultimate recreation.

After the batsmen scored a lowly 118, skipper Williamson mentioned he anticipated extra from them.

“Definitely, we have been anticipating much more from our batsmen. In all probability we will have gotten to 140 mark. An unbelievable 2d half of for us, however we’re nonetheless to place a collective efficiency in combination,” he mentioned in spite of the group successful by way of 31 runs.

The Groups:

Sunrisers Hyderabad: Kane Williamson (captain), Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Shikhar Dhawan, Shakib Al Hasan, Manish Pandey, Carlos Brathwaite, Yusuf Pathan, Wriddhiman Saha, Rashid Khan, Ricky Bhui, Deepak Hooda, Siddarth Kaul, T Natarajan, Mohammad Nabi, Basil Thampi, Ok Khaleel Ahmed, Sandeep Sharma, Sachin Child, Chris Jordan, Billy Stanlake, Tanmay Agarwal, Shreevats Goswami, Bipul Sharma, Mehdi Hasan, Alex Hale.

Kings XI Punjab: KL Rahul, Mayank Agarwal, Aaron Finch, Yuvraj Singh, Karun Nair, David Miller, Marcus Stoinis, Axar Patel, Ravichandran Ashwin (captain), AJ Tye, Mohit Sharma, Mujeeb ur Rahman, Chris Gayle.

First Revealed: April 26, 2018, 11:46 AM IST