Sunrisers Hyderabad face Rajasthan Royals in this season's IPL Eliminator, with a place in Qualifier 2 on the line and defeat sending one of these two teams home after an action-packed campaign.
Gujarat Titans await the winner in Qualifier 2, with Royal Challengers Bengaluru having booked their place in the Final.
Sunrisers Hyderabad v Rajasthan Royals Tips Summary
Best Bet - Sunrisers Hyderabad to win @ 4/5
Alternative Bet - Heinrich Klaasen top Sunrisers Hyderabad batter @ 7/2
Bet Builder - Nandre Burger top Rajasthan Royals bowler, Travis Head to make 10+ runs & Pat Cummins to take a wicket @ 13/2
Sunrisers Hyderabad v Rajasthan Royals Prediction
Best Bet: Sunrisers Hyderabad to win @ 4/5
The Royals snuck into an IPL play-off place after winning their last two games against Mumbai Indians and Lucknow Super Giants, but their Eliminator clash against Sunrisers is a big step up in class and one they may fail to deal with.
SRH won nine of their 14 games, no team had a better record, and it was only their net run-rate which kept them out of Qualifier 1.
They have also won the last six head-to-heads with these opponents and have the superior recent record in terms of going deep in this tournament.
The arrival of Pat Cummins after his injury reignited SRH's season as they won eight of their last 10 matches and they could be too strong for RR.
Rajasthan's batting line-up has been prone to collapse at times and if their power-packed top order struggles, then they are likely to as well.
Side with Sunrisers to extend their impressive record against these opponents and book a place in the next phase of the play-offs.
Alternative Bet: Heirich Klaasen top Sunrisers Hyderabad batter @ 7/2
Heinrich Klaasen has been one of the standout players in this year's IPL, with 606 runs at an average of 50.50 and six half-centuries from his 14 innings.
The South African has knocks of 69, 65 not out, 51 and 47 in his last six innings and is a tempting price to be SRH's top batter in this one.
Sunrisers Hyderabad v Rajasthan Royals Bet Builder Tip
Nandre Burger top Rajasthan Royals bowler
Travis Head to make 10+ runs
Pat Cummins to take a wicket
Pays @ 13/2
Nandre Burger took 2/43 against Mumbai Indians last time out and could be overpriced to be Rajasthan's top bowler in this clash.
Travis Head is averaging 28.07 in this year's IPL and looks to have a solid chance of getting over the 10-run mark in this Eliminator.
Cummins has been crucial to Sunrisers Hyderabad's improvement in this year's competition and has seven wickets in his last five games. He should take a scalp here.
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Key Match Stats
Sunrisers Hyderabad have won the last six head-to-heads
Sunrisers have reached the play-offs for the seventh time in the last 11 seasons
Rajasthan Royals have lost four of their last seven matches
Royals have only made the IPL final once in the last 16 seasons
The team batting first in night games in the IPL have won seven of the last 12
Abishek Sharma hit 74 the last time he played at this venue
Tactics, Form and Team News
Sunrisers are likely to field the same team which beat Royal Challengers Bengaluru last time out.
Sunrisers Hyderabad expected XI: 1 Abhishek Sharma, 2 Travis Head, 3 Ishan Kishan (WK), 4 Heinrich Klaasen, 5 Nitish Kumar Reddy, 6 Smaran Ravichandran, 7 Pat Cummins ©, 8 Shivang Kumar, 9 Eshan Malinga, 10 Sakib Hussain, 11 Harshal Patel.
Shimron Hetmyer has been dropped for Dasun Shanaka and that is likely to continue in this clash for Rajasthan.
Rajasthan Royals expected XI: 1 Yashasvi Jaiswal, 2 Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, 3 Dhruv Jurel, 4 Riyang Parag ©, 5 Dasun Shanaka, 6 Donovan Ferreira, 7 Jofra Archer, 8 Ravinda Jadeja, 9 Nandre Burger, 10 Yash Punja, 11 Brijesh Sharma.
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