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SRH vs LSG: KL Rahul brings back Quinton de Kock, Pat Cummins drops star all-rounder and Mayank Agarwal; check playing XIs here
LSG captain KL Rahul opted to bat first considering SRH's record while batting first in the ongoing IPL 2024. He brought back fiery South African batter Quinton de Kock in the side.
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Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) KL Rahul won the toss and opted to bat first against Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderabad on May 8. Rahul made a few changes in the team combination. He brought back South Africa's Quinton de Kock back in the team
“We will bat first. That plus a couple of games that have been played here. It is hard to complete forget how important this game for both the sides, but we have played enough cricket. We will focus one thing at a time, bat first and put up the runs on the board. Playing at home becomes a difference, but we play so much cricket that we know how the conditions will be. Quinton comes in, Mohsin misses out and there are a few other changes,” Rahul said at the coin toss.
SRH captain Pat Cummins on his 31st birthday made a couple of changes to the team combination. He replaced Mayank Agarwal with Sanvir Singh who came to bat as an impact player in the previous game. Also, Vijayakanth Viyasakanth has replaced South African all-rounder Marco Jansen.
“We would have batted as well. But we have won both ways here and not too upset. Hard to know as it has been pretty high scoring. It is pretty tough and you have to keep winning till the end, we have not nailed it in the last couple of games and it is time to change that. We have a couple of changes - Sanvir comes in for Agarwal and Viyaskanth replaces Marco,” Cummins said at the coin toss.
SRH Playing XI: Travis Head, Nitish Reddy, Heinrich Klaasen(w), Abdul Samad, Shahbaz Ahmed, Sanvir Singh, Pat Cummins(c), Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jaydev Unadkat, Vijayakanth Viyaskanth, T Natarajan
LSG Playing XI: Quinton de Kock, KL Rahul(w/c), Marcus Stoinis, Nicholas Pooran, Ayush Badoni, Deepak Hooda, Krunal Pandya, Krishnappa Gowtham, Yash Thakur, Ravi Bishnoi, Naveen-ul-Haq
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LSG and SRH have gone up against each other three times in the IPL. LSG have a 100 per cent win record against them.
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