Rajasthan Royals and Sunrisers Hyderabad are locking horns in the 40th match of the Indian Premier League 2021 in Dubai. SRH are reeling at the bottom of the points table while Rajasthan Royals won two games in the second leg and jumped to the fourth spot. The SRH team management decided to drop David Warner after his continuous poor form.
Sanju Samson won the toss and opted to bat first. RR brought in Evin Lewis and Chris Morris in place of Tabraiz Shamsi and David Miller. SRH dropped David Warner, Manish Pandey, Kedar Jadhav and Khaleel Ahmed while bringing Jason Roy, Abhishek Sharma, Priyam Garg and Siddarth Kaul.
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The biggest surprise came in Warner’s omission from the playing XI. He hasn’t been at his usual best during the IPL 2021. SRH sacked him from the captaincy during the first leg of this season in India and subsequently dropped him from the playing XI as well just before the league got halted midway.
However, when the league returned for the second leg in the UAE, everyone thought Warner will put his poor form behind and will start dominating the bowlers like he has been doing in the IPL for so many years.
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But a couple of failures in the first two games, where he scored 0 and 2 and lasted six balls in total for his two dismissals, forced the team management to look beyond him. As a result, Jason Roy was named in the playing XI, who provided SRH with an instant result as well with his 60-run knock against Rajasthan Royals.
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SRH fans were not happy with the decision of dropping Warner. They filled in the social media with his past heroics and things he achieved with the franchise. A fan asked whether David Warner is in the ground or not?
Warner, in reply, urged fans to keep supporting SRH despite him not being there.
Another fan said he will be back again the next season. But Warner dropped a bombshell by replying “unfortunately won’t be again but keep supporting please.”
This response casts a shadow of doubt whether Warner will be kept by SRH or not. By going his comments, it seems he won’t be returning to Hyderabad in the IPL again.
