The Cricketer takes a look at the next fixture in the 2022 Indian Premier League season
Sunrisers Hyderabad take on Chennai Super Kings in the Indian Premier League.
The game will be played on Sunday, May 1. The first ball will be bowled at 7:30pm local time (3pm GMT).
The match will be held at the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Pune.
Sunrisers Hyderabad are back in playoff contention after some lacklustre recent IPL form, with a run of five straight wins thrusting them firmly into contention.
It would have been six had it not been for the mastery of Rashid Khan, whose 31 from 11 balls delivery victory for Gujarat Titans.
CSK has endured a rotten defence of their title, leading to Ravindra Jadeja passing the captaincy - given to him at the start of the season - back to MS Dhoni.
Only winless Mumbai Indians have a worse record so far in 2022.
After edging past the five-time champions in Mumbai, they return to losing ways against Punjab Kings with an 11-run defeat.
Shikhar Shawan crushed an unbeaten 88 and the target of 188 proved too much for CSK, despite Ambati Rayudu's 78.
Umran Malik (BCCI)
Umran Malik produced one of the best bowling displays of the 2022 IPL with 5 for 25 in what was just his 16th T20 match.
And the 22-year-old right-arm quick is already being spoken about with regard to India's World Cup plans later in the year.
Former Royal Challengers Bangalore coach and New Zealand spinner Daniel Vettori told ESPNCricinfo: "That pace generates anxiety among batters and not just tailenders, it's all batters.
"We don't often see bowlers get around the 153-154 mark. That's exceptional pace, that's a rarity that we haven't seen I suppose consistently since the likes of [Brett] Lee, Shoaib Akhtar or Shaun Tait.
"So to see that is a huge part of the game now. You can see the excitement factor, brings a bit of X-factor."
Shivam Dube will be eager to rediscover some form, after some substandard returns since his 95 not out against RCB earlier in the competition.
That blitz was his second fifty of the tournament, but since he has mustered 40 runs in the last three knocks.
And he'll be keen to make improvements in the field as well, after failing to take the chance to dismiss David Miller as Titans completed an unlikely run-chase at Wankhede Stadium.
It was an effort that left captain Jadeja visibly frustrated.
Matches played: 17
Sunrisers Hyderabad wins: 5
Chennai Super Kings wins: 12
Temperatures will have dropped by the early evening in Pune, but it will still be around 32 degrees Celsius for the start of play.
Sunrisers Hyderabad: Kane Williamson, Abdul Samad, Umran Malik, Washington Sundar, Nicholas Pooran, T Natarajan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Priyam Garg, Rahul Tripathi, Abhishek Sharma, Kartik Tyagi, Shreyas Gopal, Jagadeesha Suchith, Aiden Markram, Marco Jansen, Romario Shepherd, Sean Abbott, R Samarth, Shashank Singh, Saurabh Dubey, Vishnu Vinod, Glenn Phillips, Fazalhaq Farooqi
Chennai Super Kings: Ravindra Jadeja, MS Dhoni, Moeen Ali, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Robin Uthappa, Dwayne Bravo, Ambati Rayudu, Deepak Chahar, KM Asif, Tushar Deshpande, Shivam Dube, Maheesh Theekshana, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Simarjeet Singh, Devon Conway, Dwaine Pretorius, Mitchell Santner, Adam Milne, Subhranshu Senapati, Mukesh Choudhary, Prashant Solanki, C Hari Nishaanth, N Jagadeesan, Chris Jordan, K Bhagath Varma
Shivam Dube (Michael Bradley/Getty Images)
Sunrisers Hyderabad: Abhishek Sharma, Rahul Tripathi, Kane Williamson, Nicholas Pooran, Aiden Markram, Abdul Samad, Washington Sundar, Romario Shepherd, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, T Natarajan, Umran Malik
Chennai Super Kings: Ruturaj Gaikwad, Robin Uthappa, Moeen Ali, Ambati Rayudu, Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, MS Dhoni, Dwaine Pretorius, Dwayne Bravo, Maheesh Theekshana, Mukesh Choudhary
The bookmakers can't separate these two sides, offering evens for either of them to prevail.
You'd have to expect CSK's pedigree to come through at some point during the remaining weeks of the competition, but Sunrisers have been too consistent to let them off the hook here.
In the UK, Sky Sports have exclusive rights to this year's tournament, with matches available on Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Cricket.
Fans in India can watch all of the action on Star Sports.
Elsewhere in the world, viewers in Australia can watch the IPL on Fox Sports while in New Zealand, Sky Sport will provide coverage.
Willow TV and Flow Sports will broadcast the tournament in the United States and the Caribbean, respectively.
Fans in MENA can catch the action on beIN Sports while in South Africa, SuperSport have the rights.
The IPL can also be streamed on Disney+ and Hotstar in certain areas.
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