T Natarajan Back, Nitish Reddy Dropped As SRH Invite Axar Patel's Delhi Capitals To Bat First

Pat Cummins - (Source : @Johns/X.com)

On Monday, May 5, Sunrisers Hyderabad locked horns against Delhi Capitals at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium. At the toss, Pat Cummins won the coin flip and asked Axar Patel's Delhi Capitals to bat first. 

Talking about the two teams, Delhi Capitals have brought in T Natarajan for Mukesh Kumar, while SRH too have made a few changes as Mohammed Shami and Nitish Reddy has been left out. 

SRH vs DC: Captains Thought

Pat Cummins (Sunrisers Hyderabad Captain): "We are going to bowl first. Look, we talked about a few things. We are buzzing around. First opportunity, fielding first. Look, I think, buzzing around the field is one thing we can control. Thank you very much. Yeah that is right. Everyone is a match winner. We bat really deep."

Axar Patel (Delhi Capitals Captain): "We would have fielded first as well. The wicket looks good, it won't change much later on. We will put a good score on the board and try to restrict them. It is the last phase and the matches are all must win. We have tried to keep things light. We have tried to keep everything the same as it was at the beginning of the tournament."

SRH vs DC: Playing XI

Delhi Capitals Playing XI : Faf du Plessis (vc), Karun Nair, Abishek Porel, KL Rahul (wk), Axar Patel (c), Tristan Stubbs, Vipraj Nigam, Mitchell Starc, Dushmantha Chameera, Kuldeep Yadav, T Natarajan

Sunrisers Hyderabad Playing XI : Abhishek Sharma, Ishan Kishan, Sachin Baby, Heinrich Klaasen (wk), Aniket Verma, Abhinav Manohar, Pat Cummins (c), Harshal Patel, Zeeshan Ansari, Jaydev Unadkat, Eshan Malinga

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