After suffering their worst start ever to an Indian Premier League season, Sunrisers Hyderabad will eye a much-needed victory when they fa...
After suffering their worst start ever to an Indian Premier League season, Sunrisers Hyderabad will eye a much-needed victory when they face Punjab Kings at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai on Wednesday.
Hyderabad couldn’t have asked for a worse start to the season as they slumped to three straight defeats, all while chasing.
Punjab are a tad better than SRH, having registered one win out of three games and are placed at seventh in the points table.
Head-to-head
| Mat | PBKS wins | SRH wins |
|---|---|---|
| 16 | 5 | 11 |
Chasing has been Sunrisers’ achilles’ heel so far in the league. The men in orange have been hit hard by the lack of depth in their playing XI and below-par Indian bench strength.
Captain Warner will feel the pressure of carrying the batting on his shoulders. He has scored 93 runs in the three matches he has played so far with the 54 against Royals Challengers Bangalore being the highest.
Warner and Rashid Khan are certainties in the foreign players’ slots, but the absence of Kane Williamson has been telling as he can provide solidity to the middle-order, especially since they have faltered in three consecutive chases.
Jonny Bairstow, meanwhile, remains the frontrunner for the wicketkeeper’s position.
But what would be troubling Warner most is the lack of depth...
