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    Klaasen gears up for battle against Bumrah as Sunrisers and Mumbai aim for first points

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    Klaasen gears up for battle against Bumrah as Sunrisers and Mumbai aim for first points

    Match particulars

    Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) vs Mumbai Indians (MI)
    Hyderabad, 1930 IST (1400 GMT)

    Large image – Bumrah vs Klaasen

    During the last couple of years, Sunrisers Hyderabad’s Heinrich Klaasen has developed into one of the fearsome hitters in T20 cricket. He was their top-scorer in IPL 2023 – 448 at a strike price of 177 – and has begun 2024 with a ferocious show at Eden Gardens, the place his 63 off 29 balls practically upstaged Andre Russell. Whereas the entire different SRH batters acquired begins against Kolkata Knight Riders, Klaasen was the only real cause they stayed within the chase as lengthy as they did.

    On Wednesday, against Mumbai Indians in Hyderabad, Klaasen may face a brand-new problem. Effectively nearly. His head-to-head battle with Jasprit Bumrah is simply one-ball outdated, and he scored one run off it. In ODIs, he is confronted 20 deliveries from Bumrah and scored 18 runs for one dismissal. Amid the glut of worldwide and franchise cricket, the prospect of a brand new match-up between two gamers on prime of their recreation is a rarity.

    Given Klaasen’s significance to Sunrisers, Mumbai may properly hold the vast majority of Bumrah’s overs for when he is within the center. They may actually minimise bowling spin to Klaasen – because the begin of 2023 he averages 148.5 and has a strike price of 193 against spin in T20 cricket. However Klaasen’s no mug against tempo both. He has a profession strike price of 148.45 against the quicks, and dispatched Mitchell Starc for three sixes in an over on Saturday.

    Bumrah, although, is normally in a league of his personal. After lacking IPL 2023 with a again damage, he made his comeback to the league with a spell of three for 14 in Mumbai’s season opener against Gujarat Titans regardless of two of his overs coming on the demise. All of which units up the prospect of a tantalising battle with Klaasen, as each Mumbai and Sunrisers gun for their first points of IPL 2024.

    The match is particularly vital for the Sunrisers, who misplaced seven out of eight residence video games final season, and would love a successful begin in Hyderabad this yr.

    Within the highlight – Hardik Pandya and Aiden Markram

    In his first match as Mumbai Indians captain, Hardik Pandya travelled to the house of the workforce he first led within the IPL, and discovered himself booed on the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. He was additionally the topic of a lot vitriol on social media, particularly for asking Rohit Sharma to subject on the boundary. A few of Hardik’s different captaincy selections additionally got here below scrutiny, like opening the bowling himself and bringing on Bumrah solely within the fourth over of the Titans innings, and batting at No. 7 under Tim David. Will Hyderabad be kinder to Hardik Pandya?

    Aiden Markram led the Sunrisers franchise within the SA20 – Jap Cape – to again to again titles however his inventory has dropped in Hyderabad and he was changed as captain by Pat Cummins forward of this season. Markram was picked for SRH’s opening recreation in Kolkata and made 18 off 13 balls. After a poor IPL 2023 – 248 runs at a strike price of 126 – he wants to seek out kind shortly this yr to remain forward of Travis Head and Glenn Phillips within the abroad pecking order.

    Group information and affect participant technique

    Sunrisers Hyderabad

    Legspinner Wanindu Hasaranga is but to affix the Sunrisers squad and is predicted to be unavailable for at the very least one other week as he consults docs abroad about continual ache in his left heel. The query for Sunrisers is whether or not to stick with Marco Jansen, who was costly against KKR, as their abroad bowling choice for some time longer.

    When it comes to Impression Participant technique, SRH swapped out quick bowler T Natarajan after bowling at Eden Gardens and introduced in opener Abhishek Sharma for the chase.

    Possible XII: 1 Mayank Agarwal, 2 Abhishek Sharma, 3 Rahul Tripathi, 4 Aiden Markram, 5 Heinrich Klaasen, 6 Abdul Samad, 7 Shahbaz Ahmed, 8 Marco Jansen/Fazalhaq Farooqi, 9 Pat Cummins, 10 Bhuvneshwar Kumar, 11 Mayank Markande, 12 T Natarajan

    Mumbai Indians

    Suryakumar Yadav continues to be unavailable for Mumbai Indians as he recovers from ankle surgical procedure on the Nationwide Cricket Academy in Bengaluru. He’s additionally unlikely to be match for Mumbai’s first residence recreation on April 1.

    Mumbai named solely three abroad gamers of their XI when bowling first against Titans, swapping out quick bowler Luke Wooden and bringing in middle-order batter Dewald Brevis for the chase.

    Possible XII: 1 Ishan Kishan, 2 Rohit Sharma, 3 Naman Dhir, 4 Dewald Brevis, 5 Tilak Varma, 6 Hardik Pandya, 7 Tim David, 8. Shams Mulani, 9 Gerald Coetzee, 10 Piyush Chala, 11 Jasprit Bumrah, 12 Luke Wooden

    Stats that matter

  • Mumbai Indians have gained 4 of their final 5 matches against Sunrisers Hyderabad

  • Jasprit Bumrah has 16 wickets in 13 matches against Sunrisers

  • Pat Cummins averages 40 with the bat against Mumbai Indians, placing at 181.81 against them

    • Quotes

    “I really feel the workforce is strictly the identical. We nonetheless have targets and the workforce atmosphere is basically nice. Rohit remains to be a tremendous chief and I nonetheless be taught from him each day, as properly as Hardik. I be taught from him. I really feel the workforce atmosphere is basically in a very good place and we’re prepared for no matter lies forward for us as a workforce”
    Dewald Brevis on the change of captaincy at Mumbai Indians

    Abhimanyu Bose is a sub-editor with ESPNcricinfo

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