IPL 2017 Team Preview - Sunrisers Hyderabad

The reigning champions of IPL and they will look to defend their title under Aussie David Warner again. They have made some interesting changes to their squad and will be confident of reaching the knock out stages of IPL 10.

Key Players - David Warner led from the front last season and will be eager to regain that form after a poor test series against India. A lot will rest on the start that he provides and for their potent bowling attack to have a total to defend.

Mustafizur, Nehra and Bhuvi were brilliant defending small totals last year and this year they will have the young Afghani pair of Nabi & Rashid to fall back on, in the middle overs.

Dhawan and Moises Henriques were the others who played an important role in the Sunrisers team going all the way last time around.

Injury Tracker - There is uncertainty if Mustafizur will play in the IPL. Nehra, as always, remains an injury suspect.

Fantasy Cricket Pick - David Warner He might have endured a drought in the test series against India but remains a potent force in the T20 version and not having him in your team is at your own peril.

Fantasy Cricket Wildcard Pick - Rashid Khan, if he plays, can be a handful in a team already boasting of champion bowlers.

My Prediction - Though their win last year was not of Leicester City proportions but still it will be tougher going for them this year. I think they will struggle to qualify for the playoffs this time unless Warner can fire again.

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Hyderabad Bowling up against the Bangalore Batting in the IPL 2016 Finale

Royal Challengers Bangalore Vs Sunrisers Hyderabad - VIVO IPL 2016 Final, Match Preview

After a month and a half of continuous T20 matches being played all across India, the IPL finally has its two top teams ready to do the final battle in a quest to lift the trophy and be crowned the IPL 2016 Champions.

Royal Challengers Bangalore and Sunrisers Hyderabad have had two different routes to the final, Bangalore depending on their smoking hot batting fire power to get them here while Hyderabad have depended heavily on a slew of left arm fast bowlers along with the Fizz to steamroll opposition batsmen into dust. The two teams are led by two maverick batsmen, both in the form of their lives – Virat Kohli and David Warner.

The batting depth and the class of Virat, Gayle, De Villiers and Watson definitely gives RCB the advantage in addition to the fact that they will be playing at their home ground at the Chinnaswamy but Bhuvi, Mustafizur, Sran and Henriques might just be the bowling attack that can tame the beast of the batting line up that awaits them.

As far as the SRH batting is concerned, Warner will hope that either of Dhawan, Henriques or Yuvraj come into their own in this grand finale. Dhawan and Yuvraj, in particular might be crucial cogs in the Sunrisers batting as leggies Chahal and Abdullah have been two key bowlers for RCB and if the two left handed Indian stalwarts can take on the two bowlers turning the ball in to them, then it will put a lot of pressure on Virat in the field.

There is a small doubt regarding the fitness of Mustafizur but I guess that he will be fine for this big match. If not, then Trent Boult is an ideal replacement as he can swing the ball early and can nip Gayle and Kohli early.

Any big match will have plenty of pressure and expectations and both the teams will vie to lift the trophy for the first time in their IPL history. It is set to be a clash of a Batting Giant against a Bowling Machinery and a mouth watering prospect awaits us tonight.

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