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Settled Sunrisers one win away from playoff spot
- Updated: May 14, 2016
Match facts
Sunday, May 15, 2016 Start time 1600 local (10:30 GMT)
Big picture
After finishing in the bottom half of the table in 2014 and 2015, Sunrisers Hyderabad find themselves one win away from an IPL playoff spot in 2016. They have three matches in hand, but the failure of their middle order and seam attack against Delhi Daredevils on Thursday should caution them from being overconfident.
The bowlers may have just had an off day but the middle-order has been underwhelming for a while. Sunrisers have scored at a run rate of 7.5 between the 8th and 15th overs in this IPL. Only Gujarat Lions and Mumbai Indians have fared poorer in this period. The number of dot balls faced by the Sunrisers batsmen in these overs – 202 – is second only to Mumbai’s 217. The acceleration needed to convert the starts from David Warner and Shikhar Dhawan has been absent, and that becomes a glaring flaw when the bowling fails.
Kings XI Punjab should look to exploit that. Their frontline bowlers Sandeep Sharma, Mohit Sharma and Axar Patel, along with Marcus Stoinis in the last couple of matches, have been outstanding even if the batting has let them down repeatedly. Apart from M Vijay, no batsman has scored more than two fifties this season. Glenn Maxwell …
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