Fantasy Cricket Tips: Sunrisers Hyderabad and Rajasthan Royals finished at the bottom of the points table last season. They will be looking to start off their respective IPL 2022 campaigns on a positive when they collide on Tuesday evening at the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Pune, the first game this season at this venue.
Kane Williamson will return to the field for the first time this year having been away from the game since November last year as he focused on his elbow injury. SRH have also lost the services of their star spinner, Rashid Khan, and former captain David Warner, as they pose a new-look team.
Sanju Samson has been given the faith of the franchise to lead them again after a disappointing season last year. The RR squad looks better in quality and depth this season than it did last year, a result of some smart tactics at the auction table.
Venue: MCA Stadium, Pune
Only one T20 game has been played at this venue in the last four years, before that this was used as the home stadium for the Chennai Super Kings in IPL 2018. The average first-innings score in the last 14 games is 170 and teams chasing have won nine of the last 14 games.
Unlike the grounds in Mumbai, where pacers have more advantage than spinners, at the MCA in Pune, the spinners are expected to make more impact than the faster bowlers, given the pitch in Pune is made up of black soil – in Mumbai red soil is used – and the bigger boundaries.
Fantasy cricket tips for IPL 2022:
Australian pacer Sean Abbott will miss SRH’s first three games as he’s on national duty for Australia for the white-ball series in Pakistan but the rest of the squad is available. Rajasthan have their full squad strength to choose from after Rassie van der Dussen and Marco Jansen landed in time, completed his quarantine and is available for selection.
Expected playing XIs:
Fantasy cricket tips: SRH predicted XI
Rahul Tripathi, Abhishek Sharma, Kane Williamson (c), Nicholas Pooran (wk), Aiden Markram, Abdul Samad, Washington Sundar, Marco Jansen/Romario Shepherd, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, T Natarajan, Umran Malik/Kartik Tyagi
Fantasy cricket tips: RR predicted XI
Jos Buttler, Yashavi Jaiswal, Devdutt Padikkal, Sanju Samson (c,wk), Shimron Hetmyer, Riyan Parag, R Ashwin, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Yuzvendra Chahal, Trent Boult, Prasidh Krishna
SRH-RR best XI on Dream XI:
Wicket-keeper: Jos Buttler (C), Sanju Samson
Batsman: Kane Williamson, Rahul Tripathi, Devdutt Padikkal
All-rounder: Aiden Markram, Washington Sundar
Bowler: Yuzvendra Chahal (vc), Trent Boult, T Natarajan, Marco Jansen
