IPL 2021: Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Royal Challengers Bangalore – Preview, Predicted XIs, Head-to-Head, Live Streaming and Match Prediction

IPL 2021: Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Royal Challengers Bangalore – Preview, Predicted XIs, Head-to-Head, Live Streaming and Match Prediction

Sunrisers Hyderabad and Royal Challengers Bangalore will square off against each other in the sixth match of the Vivo IPL 2021 at the MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai on Wednesday, 14th April.

Both the teams have had contrasting starts to the tournament with the former coming to this game on the back of a 10 run defeat against KKR whereas the latter crushed Mumbai Indians by two wickets in the season opener.

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IPL 2021 Match 6 SRH vs RCB: Preview

MI vs RCB
Royal Challengers Bangalore celebrate a wicket
Sunrisers Hyderabad

Sunrisers Hyderabad were on the receiving end of some heavy assault by the KKR batters. Nitish Rana and Rahul Tripathi were taking every bowler to the cleaners and showed no mercy in the middle overs. Sunrisers managed to get back in the game but a quickfire innings from Dinesh Karthik, in the end, saw KKR post a total of 187. Afghan duo Rashid Khan and Mohammad Nabi were the picks of the bowlers for Hyderabad. After losing the openers quickly, Manish Pandey and Jonny Bairstow brought SRH back into the game as they both notched their half-centuries. After the departure of the latter, SRH batsmen were unable to hit the ball and get boundaries and eventually lost the game by 10 runs.

On the batting front, Abdul Samad showed some brilliance at the end but it was too late. Hyderabad’s woes of a hard-hitting and dependable lower-order batsman are worrying them again. Abdul Samad, if promoted early could solve that. They have been highly dependent on David Warner to perform at the start.

On the other hand, bowling has been the strength of SRH over the past few seasons with Bhuvneshwar Kumar leading the attack. But during the last game, Bhuvi was taken for runs with Rashid Khan being the only bowler with an economy under eight.

With Kane Williamson and Jason Holder on the bench, it will be exciting to see how SRH management plays them or do they even play them.

Royal Challengers Bangalore

Royal Challengers Bangalore started their season with a win over defending champion Mumbai Indians. Virat Kohli’s jinx of the coin toss was finally broken as he won the toss and opted to field first.

RCB got Rohit early in the innings owing to a mix-up between him and Lynn. Surya Kumar Yadav and Chris Lynn played decently in the middle, but a great death bowling display by RCB bowlers saw Mumbai Indians reach only 159. Harshal Patel was the star of the show as he grabbed his first five-wicket haul and also became the first bowler to do so against Mumbai Indians in the history of IPL. Bangalore lost Washington Sundar, who was promoted to open the innings, and Rajat Patidhar early in the innings. But, a solid partnership between Big Show Maxwell and Virat Kohli followed by a lethal batting display by ABD, in the end, saw RCB clinching the match in a last-ball thriller.

Devdutt Padikkal’s return will strengthen their top order. With Virat, Maxwell, and ABD in the lineup RCB are well settled. If Dan Christian can play the same way he did in BBL, it would be a great advantage for the Challengers.

Harshal Patel put up a great show with the ball. He gave only a single run in the last over and took three wickets which was the turning point of the match. Kyle Jamieson also bowled economically and contributed to the victory.

IPL 2021 Match 6 SRH vs RCB : Match Details

  • Match: Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Royal Challengers Bangalore, IPL 2021- Match 6
  • Date and Time: 14th April, 7:30 pm IST
  • Venue: MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai
  • The match between Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Royal Challengers Bangalore will be streamed live on the Star Sports Network and Disney+ Hotstar VIP.

Weather Report

The weather in Chennai through the day is expected to be mostly cloudy with slight drizzle expected. The temperature during the game is expected to around 30 Degrees Celsius.

Pitch Report

The pitch at MA Chidambaram Stadium is a slower one and anything above 150 can be a par score on this sluggish wicket. The team winning the toss would most probably field first and look to chase.

Predicted Playing XI

The Sunrisers Hyderabad team are unlikely to make any changes to their XI while the Royal Challengers are likely to bring in Devdutt Padikkal in place of Rajat Patidar.

Sunrisers Hyderabad

SRH
SRH
  • David Warner
  • Wriddhiman Saha
  • Manish Pandey
  • Jonny Bairstow
  • Vijay Shankar
  • Mohammad Nabi
  • Abdul Samad
  • Rashid Khan
  • Bhuvneshwar Kumar
  • Sandeep Sharma
  • T Natarajan

Royal Challengers Bangalore

Harshal Patel
RCB
  • Devdutt Padikkal
  • Virat Kohli
  • Glenn Maxwell
  • Ab De Villiers
  • Dan Christian
  • Washington Sundar
  • Shahbaz Ahmed
  • Kyle Jamieson
  • Harshal Patel
  • Mohammed Siraj
  • Yuzvendra Chahal

IPL 2021 Match 6 SRH vs RCB : Head to head and Prediction

David Warner and Virat Kohli
David Warner and Virat Kohli

Head to Head (Last 5 matches)

  • Hyderabad won by 6 wickets
  • Hyderabad won by 5 wickets
  • Bangalore won by 10 runs
  • Bangalore won by 4 wickets
  • Hyderabad won by 118 runs

IPL 2021: SRH vs RCB Match Prediction

Royal Challengers Bangalore head into the game as favorites and are expected to win this match. They have the winning momentum with them and have all their bases covered whereas, Sunrisers Hyderabad still needs to sort out their lower order issues.

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