Pant said, ‘It looks like a good wicket, but at the same time, there is something for the bowlers also. It will be difficult to score runs after the powerplay. When asked whether he would continue opening the innings for Lucknow, Pant said let’s see. In the team sheet, he was placed at number 3.

Pant told about the team combination that leg spinner Digvesh Rathi, left-arm spinner M Siddharth and fast bowler Avesh Khan are part of the playing-11. Shahbaz Ahmed, Enrique Norkhia and Mohsin Khan replaced them. Ayush Badoni is likely to come in as an impact player for Chase.

SRH also made a few changes, bringing in Liam Livingstone and Harshal Patel. Salil Arora was ruled out, and only one of the two overseas fast bowlers, Ishan Malinga and David Paine – could come in – both of whom were part of the impact player bench.

The match is being played on pitch number 2. The last time an afternoon game was played on this pitch, in IPL 2025, SRH had scored 286 runs and Rajasthan Royals had added 242 runs in reply. The square boundaries are 63 and 68 metres.

LSG had lost their first game of the season against DC while SRH are coming off a win against KKR at the Eden Gardens after losing to RCB in Bengaluru.

Sunrisers Hyderabad: 1 Abhishek Sharma, 2 Travis Head, 3 Ishan Kishan (captain and wicketkeeper), 4 Heinrich Klaasen, 5 Liam Livingstone, 6 Aniket Verma, 7 Nitish Kumar Reddy, 8 Harsh Dubey, 9 Shivang Kumar, 10 Harshal Patel, 11 Jaydev Unadkat

Impact Player Option: Ishaan Malinga, David Penn, Salil Arora, Shivam Mavi, Zeeshan Ansari

Lucknow Super Giants: 1 Mitchell Marsh, 2 Aiden Markram, 3 Rishabh Pant (captain and wicketkeeper), 4 Nicholas Pooran, 5 Abdul Samad, 6 Mukul Chaudhary, 7 Avesh Khan, 8 Mohammed Shami, 9 Prince Yadav, 10 Digvesh Rathi, 11 M Siddharth.

Impact Player Option: Anrich Nortje, Himant Singh, Shahbaz Ahmed, Ayush Badoni, Matthew Britzke