Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Rajasthan Royals Predictions: Expect an exciting game in Hyderabad as the teams will be looking to get intial two points

A new season of IPL is underway and Sunrisers Hyderabad will welcome Rajasthan Royals in the fourth game of the season at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium on 2nd April. The teams have had very contrasting seasons the last time around. Who will win and start the new season on a positive note?

Sunrisers Hyderabad have changed the captain once again going into the new season of the IPL. After Kane Williamson, Aiden Markram will lead the men in orange on the pitch. He will not be available due to national duty so Bhuvaneshwar Kumar will be marshalling the troops in the first game of their campaign. Sunrisers are again going into the tournament with a heavy bowling attack. Three Indian pacers are leading the line with Kumar, T Natarajan and Umran Malik. The batting looks stable on paper but it is a whole new game when they make it to the pitch. Abhishek Sharma and Mayank Agarwal will have to provide consistency at the top of the order. Sunrisers will hope to do good this season after the revamp they have done since last year. 

Abhishek Sharma, Mayank Agarwal, Rahul Tripathi, Harry Brook, Glenn Phillips (wk), Abdul Samad, Washington Sundar, Bhuvneshwar Kumar (c), Adil Rashid, Umran Malik, T Natarajan

Rajasthan missed out on the IPL trophy last year after being beaten by Gujarat in the finals. They did well in the season and a lot of credit should go to them after their squad overhaul in the last auction. They bought sensibly and have reaped the benefits. The team has not made a lot of changes to the squad this time around and the squad looks very stable. It will be interesting to see how the spin duo of Ravichandran Ashwin and Yuzvendra Chahal will pan out the season. Will it be a breakthrough season for Sanju Samson who has been in and out of the Indian squad? Rajasthan will be looking to replicate their success from the last season. 

Yashasvi Jaiswal, Jos Buttler, Sanju Samson (c/wk), Devdutt Padikkal, Shimron Hetmyer, Riyan Parag, Jason Holder, Ravichandran Ashwin, Trent Boult, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Sen

We are expecting a high-scoring game in this IPL venue as we have seen historically. The pitch will assist the batters and their hard-hitting abilities can come to a good test. The players will have to spend some time on the pitch before going all out. The team will be looking to bowl first and put up a target on the board. Hyderabad is again going into the season hoping for a handful of batters and the bowlers to bail them out. We expect a cracking game in Hyderabad and Rajasthan Royals to come out on top.