SRH captain Pat Cummins (left) and DC skipper Axar Patel at the toss. Photo: BCCI
SRH vs DC: Pat Cummins wins toss, opts to bowl
DC brought in T Natarajan in place of Mukesh Kumar, while SRH dropped Kamindu Mendis and Nitish Kumar Reddy. Abhinav Manohar and Sachin Baby replaced them
Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) captain Pat Cummins won the toss and elected to bowl against Delhi Capitals (DC) in their IPL 2025 match in Hyderabad on Monday evening (May 5).
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Placed fifth on the points table, DC are looking to move up the table as the race for the play-offs has intensified. DC brought in T Natarajan in place of Mukesh Kumar.
Hosts SRH are languishing at number nine with just three wins from 10 matches. SRH dropped Kamindu Mendis and Nitish Kumar Reddy. Abhinav Manohar and Sachin Baby replaced them.
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Playing XIs
Sunrisers Hyderabad: Pat Cummins (c), Abhishek Sharma, Ishan Kishan (wk), Sachin Baby, Heinrich Klaasen, Aniket Verma, Abhinav Manohar, Harshal Patel, Zeeshan Ansari, Eshan Malinga, and Jaydev Unadkat.
Impact Subs: Travis Head, Harsh Dubey, Rahul Chahar, Wiaan Mulder, Mohammed Shami.
Delhi Capitals: Axar Patel (c), Abishek Porel, Faf du Plessis, Karun Nair, KL Rahul (wk), Tristan Stubbs, Vipraj Nigam, Mitchell Starc, Dushmantha Chameera, Kuldeep Yadav, and T Natarajan.
Impact Subs: Ashutosh Sharma, Jake Fraser McGurk, Sameer Rizvi, Mukesh Kumar, Mohit Sharma.