While on one hand, the Mumbai outfit will aim to continue their winning streak after qualifying for the playoffs with an ease, David Warner's squad on the other hand will be keen to give their best to stay alive in the competition and set up a not-so-straight forward clash against Virat Kohli's Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Eliminator.
As of now, both the teams have faced each other 15 times in the IPL with Mumbai Indians dominating the fixture with their 8 victories. Speaking of this season, the two teams squared off in Sharjah where MI defeated the Hyderabad-based outfit by 34 runs.
The under-pressure fifth placed Hyderabad currently has 14 points from 13 matches so far and now requires the deciding two points for the playoffs. The side has won six matches and lost seven whereas MI has win nine times and lost 4 of their 13 matches this season. The Mumbai squad sits at the top of the points table with 18 points and has already reserved berth for the playoffs.
Have A Look At The Top Performers from SRH & MI
In terms of top scores from both the teams, David Warner has made 444, Manish Pandey- 380 and Jonny Bairstow -345 from the SRH squad while Quinton de Kock from the MI Unit has made 418, Ishan Kishan - 362 and Suryakumar Yadav -374.
In terms of most number of wicket-takers from the SRH team, Rashid Khan, Natarajan and Sandeep Sharma had taken 18, 14 and 10 wickets respectively, while Jasprit Bumrah, Trent Bould and Rahul Chahar from the MI Squad have take 23, 20 and 15 wickets respectively.
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Squads:
Sunrisers Hyderabad Squad: David Warner(c), Wriddhiman Saha(w), Manish Pandey, Kane Williamson, Vijay Shankar, Jason Holder, Abdul Samad, Rashid Khan, Shahbaz Nadeem, Sandeep Sharma, T Natarajan, Khaleel Ahmed, Shreevats Goswami, Jonny Bairstow, Siddarth Kaul, Mohammad Nabi, Bavanaka Sandeep, Billy Stanlake, Fabian Allen, Virat Singh, Basil Thampi, Sanjay Yadav, Abhishek Sharma, Priyam Garg, Prithvi Raj Yarra.
Mumbai Indians: Rohit Sharma (captain), Aditya Tare, Anmolpreet Singh, Anukul Roy, Chris Lynn, Dhawal Kulkarni, Digvijay Deshmukh, Hardik Pandya, Ishan Kishan (wicket-keeper), James Pattison, Jasprit Bumrah, Jayant Yadav, Kieron Pollard, Krunal Pandya, Mitchell McClenaghan, Mohsin Khan, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Prince Balwant Rai, Quinton De Kock (wicket-keeper), Rahul Chahar, Saurabh Tiwary, Sherfane Rutherford, Suryakumar Yadav, Trent Boult