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. 

Considering the opening games of both the teams, Hyderabad can be termed as a more balanced side as compares Rajasthan. There is no doubt regarding the fact that SRH can be a team to beat this season as well. On the other hand, Rajasthan, despite having a good mix of Indian and overseas players who are yet to be tested in this season of IPL, they lack balance in their squad.

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The buzz for the game is expected to be as higher as it can get. A lot of Indian cricket fans are looking forward to this game and ahead of this crucial encounter, we have come up with five things which every fan will be waiting to see in this game:

#5 Shankar’s emergence

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.