IPL 2020, SRH vs RCB Match Preview: Virat-Led Bangalore Aim To Seal Play-Off Berth Against Strong-Willed Hyderabad At Dubai

Match Preview Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Royal Challengers Bangalore IPL 2020 UAE: Hyderabad's bowling is already strong, even if their batsmen perform the same way today, Hyderabad can be successful in defeating RCB.

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The 52nd IPL 2020 match between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Sunrisers Hyderabad is to be played at Sharjah Cricket Stadium. There will be a good fight between the two teams to qualify for the playoffs. If RCB manage to beat Hyderabad in today's match, it will become the second team to qualify in the playoffs with 16 points, while if Hyderabad wins this match they will have 14 points and will need one more win to make it to the playoffs.

RCB is battling for 2 points from the last two matches. They were first defeated by Chennai Super Kings (CSK) by 8 wickets, and then were defeated by Mumbai Indians by 5 wickets. In their last match against Mumbai, RCB dropped Finch and gave place to Josh Phillipe who scored 33 runs from 24 balls, while Dale Steyn (4 overs 43 runs) also returned after Saini was injured, but He proved to be quite expensive.

If RCB want to win against Hyderabad, then Kohli and de Villiers will have to take up the task of scoring runs. Padikkal is definitely giving a good start to the team, but in the middle overs, RCB's pace of scoring runs decreased which puts a lot of pressure on their batsmen in the death overs.

Hyderabad have reached here by defeating heavyweights Delhi Capitals by 88 runs in their last match. Hyderabad, batting first, scored a huge score of 219 runs. Skipper Warner gave Kane Williamson a place in the playing XI to strengthen the middle order by dropping Bairstow in this match.

Also, Warner introduced Wriddhiman Saha as an opener and it worked for him as he played a blistering knock of 87 off 45 balls against Delhi, while the skipper himself scored 66 runs. Hyderabad's bowling is already strong, even if their batsmen perform the same way today, Hyderabad can be successful in defeating RCB.

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 Royal Challengers Bangalore Squad: Josh Philippe, Devdutt Padikkal, Virat Kohli(c), AB de Villiers(w), Shivam Dube, Chris Morris, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Washington Sundar, Dale Steyn, Mohammed Siraj, Yuzvendra Chahal, Parthiv Patel, Aaron Finch, Navdeep Saini, Adam Zampa, Isuru Udana, Umesh Yadav, Moeen Ali, Pawan Negi, Pavan Deshpande, Shahbaz Ahmed