Last season’s runners-up Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) will be locking horns with Rajasthan Royals (RR) at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad for the 8th match of the ongoing season of the Indian Premier League (IPL). The irony is that both the teams have lost their respective season openers that too by a narrow margin.
While SRH faced defeat against Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in Kolkata. The game in which for most of the time, SRH were the favorites. However, Rajasthan was defeated by Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) at home, the game which will be known for the Mankading incident between R Ashwin and Jos Butler.
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On Friday, both the teams will be looking forward to winning their first game of the season with SRH having home advantage. Let us take a glance at the 5 players who can perform out of the box in the match between SRH vs RR.
Vijay Shankar (SRH)
In the last game, Vijay Shankar played as the first all-rounder and even tried at No.3 position to bat. He was traded from Delhi Capitals along with Abhishek Sharma and Shabaz Nadeem in exchange of Shikhar Dhawan. He amassed 40 runs off 24 balls to take the Hyderabad team to a decent total.
