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Sunrisers Hyderabad take on Chennai Super Kings in IPL 2024's blockbuster clash on Friday, in Hyderabad. Both sides will be looking to get back to winning ways with the defending champions currently placed in third place, with four points in three fixtures. Meanwhile, SRH are seventh with two points in three games. Both sides have shown decent form throughout the season, and have new skippers.
SRH acquired Pat Cummins during the auction and immediately made him captain. Meanwhile, MS Dhoni gave away the captaincy role to Ruturaj Gaikwad on the eve of the season opener. Gaikwad has been positive with his leadership skills, and has Dhoni for assistance.
Meanwhile, Cummins will be hoping that his senior-most Indian batter Mayank Agarwal finds some form, The opener has failed to impress until now but has received support from Daniel Vettori, who is part of the team's coaching staff. The New Zealand legend said, "In terms of Mayank, in the first game he gave us exactly what we wanted. In the last two games he missed out but that's the nature of batting. We want our batters to have the freedom to be able to be aggressive and playing their style. For Mayank, it is around countering what the opposition brings. He's obviously had three similar dismissals [off short balls], so that's something that he's working hard on to rectify."
Meanwhile, CSK will be hoping for Matheesha Pathirana to fire today. The Sri Lanka has taken 23 wickets since IPL 2023 with 19 of them at the death, which is also the joint-most with Mohit Sharma.