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Daredevils face a tough task against Sunrisers

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Sanju Samson Delhi Daredevils' Sanju Samson needs to make the most of his good form. IANS

Hyderabad: Delhi Daredevils will be aiming to display more intent in their batting as they face a formidable Sunrisers Hyderabad in an IPL encounter, here on Wednesday.

It will be an arduous task for Daredevils as they face a team that has both current 'Orange Cap' holder David Warner (235 runs) and 'Purple Cap' owner Bhuvneshwar Kumar (15 wickets) in its ranks.

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Both teams met with contrasting fate during their last encounter, with Sunrisers edging past Kinghs XI Punjab in an exciting last over finish while Daredevils couldn't stop KKR from reaching the target in another final over thriller.

The points table is at a nascent stage with Sunrisers on six points from five games sitting at the third position while Daredevils is lying fourth with four points.

For Delhi, it will be important to have consistency in their batting. They have had forceful performances at the start of the innings and at the end, but the two games --- vs RCB and KKR that they have lost --- have been primarily due to their inability to force the pace during middle overs.

Delhi boasts of some of the spirited batsmen in the tournament in its ranks in Sanju Samson, who scored a century against Rising Pune Supergiant, Sam Billings, Rishabh Pant, Corey Anderson and Chris Morris.

Though the Delhi batsmen have been in good form, especially Pant, this edition's only centurion Sanju and all-rounder Morris, problem has been consistency.

The slowish pitch at Uppal along with an in-form Bhuvneshwar and Afghan sensation Rashid Khan could pose a few problems.

It will be interesting to see whether an out-of-sorts Angelo Mathews gets a second game.

Delhi's bowling, comprising skipper Zaheer Khan, Morris, Shahbaz Nadeem and Pat Cummins, besides Anderson and Amit Mishra have played a vital role in the team's success so far.

They need to come up with another fine effort in order to stop an in-form Warner, who has shown a different side to his batting adapting to vagaries of sub-continental pitches in the shortest format.

For Hyderabad, Ashish Nehra may come back in place of Barinder Sran, who was taken to task by Manan Vohra.

Yuvraj Singh would like to make amends for his last match's failure while the presence of Moises Henriques as seamer all-rounder and Ben Cutting as the back-up lends the team much-needed solidity.

The teams (from): Sunrisers Hyderabad: David Warner (capt), Tanmay Agarwal, Ricky Bhui, Bipul Sharma, Ben Cutting, Shikhar Dhawan, Eklavya Dwivedi, Moises Henriques, Deepak Hooda, Chris Jordan, Siddharth Kaul, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Ben Laughlin, Abhimanyu Mithun, Mohammad Nabi, Mohammed Siraj, Mustafizur Rahman, Ashish Nehra, Naman Ojha (wk), Rashid Khan, Vijay Shankar, Barinder Sran, Pravin Tambe, Kane Williamson and Yuvraj Singh.

Delhi Daredevils: Zaheer Khan (capt), Mohammad Shami, Shahbaz Nadeem, Jayant Yadav, Amit Mishra, Shreyas Iyer, Sanju Samson, Karun Nair, Rishabh Pant, C.V. Milind, Khaleel Ahmed, Pratyush Singh, Murugan Ashwin, Aditya Tare, Shashank Singh, Ankit Bawane, Navdeep Saini, Corey Anderson, Angelo Mathews, Pat Cummins, Kagiso Rabada, Chris Morris, Carlos Brathwaite, Sam Billings.

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