After winning the toss, Sunrisers Hyderabad captain Pat Cummins said leg-spinner Zeeshan Ansari has been handed an IPL debut and comes into the playing eleven in place of pacer Simarjeet Singh. SRH are searching for their second win of the season after suffering a five-wicket defeat to Lucknow Super Giants at home.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
The visitors\u2019 have a local lad in all-rounder Nitish Kumar Reddy, who knows the venue conditions pretty well. \u201cAfternoon game tends to be hot at the start. Looking to put up a big total. We batted the opposition out of the game last year, hope to do that today. We have to play the way we do, it won't work out all the time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
On the other hand, Rahul comes into DC\u2019s playing eleven after missing the side\u2019s nail-biting one-wicket win over Lucknow Super Giants last week due to paternity leave. He now comes into the playing eleven in place of uncapped batter Sameer Rizvi and is slotted to bat at number four.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\u201cI'd have batted first as it's a noon game and the last game, the ball was doing more in the second inns. But it's all good, toss is uncontrollable. We have played here before, know the conditions, we've planned while factoring in the opponents.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\u201cWe have to be brave against SRH, you have to be ahead in the powerplay. You can bowl in the powerplay like it's the death, try and be aggressive,\u201d said DC skipper Axar Patel.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Playing XIs<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Delhi Capitals: Jake Fraser-McGurk, Faf du Plessis, Abishek Porel (wk), KL Rahul, Axar Patel (captain), Tristan Stubbs, Vipraj Nigam, Mitchell Starc, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohit Sharma and Mukesh Kumar<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Impact Substitutes: Karun Nair, Ashutosh Sharma, Sameer Rizvi, Donovan Ferreira, and Tripurana Vijay<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Sunrisers Hyderabad: Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Ishan Kishan, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Heinrich Klaasen (wk), Aniket Verma, Abhinav Manohar, Pat Cummins (captain), Zeeshan Ansari, Harshal Patel, and Mohammed Shami<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Impact Substitutes: Karun Nair, Ashutosh Sharma, Sameer Rizvi, Donovan Ferreira, and Tripurana Vijay<\/p>\r\n\r\n
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