Under-pressure Lions face their bogey team
Sunrisers Hyderabad have won all three of their matches against Gujarat Lions and will want to keep that momentum going
The Preview by Annesha Ghosh
08-Apr-2017
Match facts
Sunrisers Hyderabad v Gujarat Lions
Hyderabad, April 9, 2017
Start time 1600 local (1030 GMT)
Hyderabad, April 9, 2017
Start time 1600 local (1030 GMT)
Head to head
Sunrisers have won all three matches played between the two teams so far.
In the news
After the 10-wicket defeat to Kolkata Knight Riders on Friday, when five of six bowlers used went at more than 10 an over, James Faulkner or Andrew Tye is likely to make the Lions XI. Dwayne Bravo and Ravindra Jadeja are still unavailable due to injuries.
Sunrisers, who thumped Royal Challengers Bangalore in the season opener, will miss the services of left-arm quick Mustafizur Rahman for the second match in a row. But coach Tom Moody said he is "more than likely" to be available for their first away game of the season, against Mumbai Indians, on April 12.
The likely XIs
Sunrisers Hyderabad: 1 David Warner (capt), 2 Shikhar Dhawan, 3 Moises Henriques, 4 Yuvraj Singh, 5 Deepak Hooda, 6 Ben Cutting, 7 Naman Ojha (wk) , 8 Bipul Sharma, 9 Rashid Khan, 10 Bhuvneshwar Kumar, 11 Ashish Nehra
Gujarat Lions: 1 Brendon McCullum, 2 Jason Roy, 3 Suresh Raina (capt), 4 Aaron Finch, 5 Dinesh Karthik (wk), 6 James Faulkner, 7 Shubham Agarwal/ Akshdeep Nath , 8 Praveen Kumar, 9 Pradeep Sangwan/Basil Thampi, 10 Dhawal Kulkarni, 11 Shadab Jakati/ Shivil Kaushik
Stats that matter
Annesha Ghosh is a sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo