PBKS vs SRH match in IPL today: Punjab won 66% of the matches against Hyderabad, 4-4 points from both; Possible playing-11

Today in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024, there will be a match between Punjab Kings (PBKS) and Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH). The match will be played at Maharaja Yadvendra Singh International Cricket Stadium, Mohali from 7:30 pm. The toss will take place at 7 pm.

Punjab has won 66% of the matches against Hyderabad in IPL. Both the teams have won 2-2 matches so far in the 17th season, both have also lost 2-2 matches. Both teams have 4 points each, SRH is at 5th in the points table and PBKS is at 6th.

Punjab ahead in head to head
So far 21 matches have been played between the two teams in IPL. Of these, Punjab won 14 matches and Hyderabad won 7, that is, PBKS won 66 percent of the matches against Hyderabad. The last match between the two teams took place in Hyderabad in 2023, when SRH won by 8 wickets. At the same time, the last time both the teams met in Mohali was in the year 2019, where Punjab won the match by 6 wickets.

Clason SRH top scorer
SRH batsmen have performed well this year. Players like Abhishek Sharma, Travis Head, Heinrich Klaasen and Aiden Markram continuously attacked the bowlers, giving the team a great start.

Henrik Klaasen is the top batsman of the team. He has scored 2 half-centuries in 4 matches. Whereas in bowling, T Natarajan has taken maximum 4 wickets. On the other hand, players like Jaydev Unadkat, Mayank Markande and Bhuvneshwar Kumar have proved to be a bit expensive this year.

Dhawan top scorer in Punjab, performance of other batsmen disappointing
Punjab has aggressive batsmen like Shikhar Dhawan, Jonny Bairstow, Liam Livingston. But apart from captain Dhawan, till now no batsman has been able to perform well consistently. Punjab will hope that their Indian players Prabhsimran Singh and Jitesh Sharma take responsibility and play big innings like uncapped Shashank Singh.

Bowling has also become a matter of concern for Punjab. Punjab struggled in the death overs, the team's top wicket taker is Kagiso Rabada with 6 successes.

pitch report
Only the second IPL match is being played in the new ground of Mohali. Earlier here PBKS faced Delhi Capitals. Then Punjab achieved the target of 175 in the 20th over. Syed Mushtaq Ali T-20 Trophy matches were also played here. In which the average score remained only 174 runs. The pitch is expected to be slow, in such a situation the team winning the toss can also choose to bat first.

weather report
The weather will be clear, the temperature will be between 32 to 33 degrees. There is no chance of rain.

Possible playing eleven

Punjab Kings: Shikhar Dhawan (Captain)Jonny Bairstow, Prabhsimran Singh, Sam Curran, Jitesh Sharma (wk), Shashank Singh, Ashutosh Sharma, Harpreet Brar, Kagiso Rabada, Harshal Patel and Arshdeep Singh.
Impact Player – Rahul Chahar, Liam Livingston and Sikandar Raza.

Sunrisers Hyderabad: Pat Cummins (captain), Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Aiden Markram, Shahbaz Ahmed, Heinrich Klaasen (wk), Abdul Samad, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, T Natarajan and Mayank Markande.
Impact Player- Jaydev Unadkat, Mayank Agarwal.