A confident Sunrisers Hyderabad is ready to make their Indian Premier League (IPL) debut today against Pune Warriors at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad.
The match will start at 8 pm.
Both team have some very good players, while Sunsrisers will rely on Dale Steyn, Sangakkara, Duminy and McCullum to win the match for them, Pune Warriors will hope for the same from Angelo Mathews, Taylor, Mendis, Manoj Pandey, Uthappa and Murtaza.
Chief Mentor K. Srikanth and Coach Tom Moody of Sunsrisers are confident that the team would begin the season on a good note.
Srikanth during a practice session said, "Everybody's goal is to win the cup at the end of the day. Our primary goal is that we should qualify for semifinals. We should come in top four. We are confident of doing it".
"I am a very firm believer in positive energy. I always appeal to fans to pray. The prayers helped India win this World Cup," he added.
Moody said they were comfortable with the team comprising both domestic and international players.
"We have prepared well. We are disappointed that we could not play yesterday's practice match due to out of season heavy rains. Apart from that we feel confident and comfortable going into the first challenge."
"Everyone has something to offer whether you played 100 test matches or you have not played a test match yet. It is important to embrace everyone's knowledge," he added.
The coach said they had decided on the playing 11 but would announce the same after the toss. Describing the pitch as excellent, he said despite rains the ground staff and head curator have done a great job.
Sunrisers Hyderabad team:
KC Sangakkara (Captain), Anand Rajan, Ankit Sharma, A Ashish Reddy, Q de Kock, S Dhawan, JP Duminy, CA Lynn, NL McCullum, CJ McKay, A Mishra, PA Patel, NLTC Perera, P Prasanth, V Pratap Singh, S Rana, DB Ravi Teja, PA Reddy, BB Samantray, DJG Sammy, I Sharma, KV Sharma, DW Steyn, X Thalaivan Sargunam, S Tyagi, GH Vihari, CL White
Pune Warriors team:
AD Mathews (Captain), ER Dwivedi, UA Birla, AB Dinda, AJ Finch, RV Gomez, Harpreet Singh, DS Jadhav, B Kumar, AP Majumdar, M Manhas, MR Marsh, BAW Mendis, AG Murtaza, AM Nayar, IC Pandey, MK Pandey, WD Parnell, Parvez Rasool, M Rawat, KW Richardson, MN Samuels, R Sharma, SPD Smith, TL Suman, Tamim Iqbal, LRPL Taylor, K Upadhyay, RV Uthappa, SB Wagh, LJ Wright, Yuvraj Singh
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