Sunrisers Hyderabad and Rajasthan Royals will play the 5th match of the IPL 2022 on 29th March at MCA Stadium, Pune.
SRH and RR ended the last season at the bottom of the table and this year they would want to perform well with the fresh recruitment in the mega auction.
Sanju Samson will lead the side again after he was appointed as captain just before the 2021 season.
Rajasthan signed the New Zealand players Jimmy Neesham, Daryll Mitchell and Trent Boult, along with Indian spinner duo Yuzvendra Chahal and Ravichandran Ashwin.
Sanju Samson (wk) (c), Jos Buttler, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Karun Nair, Rassie van der Dussen, Devdutt Padikkal, Daryl Mitchell, Kuldip Yadav, Ravichandran Ashwin, Trent Boult, Yuzvendra Chahal
Player | Matches | Runs | Average |
---|---|---|---|
Sanju Samson | 121 | 3068 | 29.22 |
Jos Buttler | 65 | 1968 | 35.14 |
Devdutt Padikkal | 29 | 884 | 31.57 |
Yashasvi Jaiswal | 13 | 289 | 22.23 |
Player | Matches | Wickets | Economy |
---|---|---|---|
Ravichandran Ashwin | 167 | 145 | 6.92 |
Trent Boult | 54 | 76 | 8.40 |
Yuzvendra Chahal | 114 | 139 | 7.59 |
Kane Williamson will lead the SRH side and some interesting players have been signed by the team, like Nicholas Pooran, Romario Shepherd, Marco Jansen and Fazalhaq Farooqi.
They have a whole squad, except Sean Abbott, to choose for the playing XI in this match.
Kane Williamson (c), Nicholas Pooran (wk), Rahul Tripathi, Abdul Samad, Washington Sundar, Romario Shepherd, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Abhishek Sharma, Umran Malik, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, T.Natarajan
Player | Matches | Runs | Average |
---|---|---|---|
Kane Williamson | 63 | 1885 | 40.11 |
Nicholas Pooran | 33 | 606 | 22.44 |
Rahul Tripathi | 62 | 1385 | 26.13 |
Abdul Samad | 23 | 222 | 15.86 |
Player | Matches | Wickets | Economy |
---|---|---|---|
Abhishek Sharma | 22 | 7 | 8.0 |
Bhuvneshwar Kumar | 132 | 142 | 7.30 |
T. Natarajan | 24 | 20 | 8.23 |