SRH vs CSK IPL 2024 Toss and Pitch Report

SRh vs CSK IPL 2024 with Pat Cummins, MS Dhoni and Ruturaj Gaikwad

Sunrisers Hyderabad face off with reigning champions Chennai Super Kings in the 18th game of IPL 2024.  Sunrisers Hyderabad narrowly lost their first match against KKR but they superbly bounced back against Mumbai Indians. SRH managed to score the highest total ever in the IPL and tasted a huge win. In their third game, SRH floundered against Gujarat Titans losing the match by 7 wickets.

CSK started their campaign like a champion team and scripted a couple of resounding successes against Royal Challengers Bangalore and Gujarat Titans. However, they were beaten by the visiting Delhi Capitals in their third outing. Both CSK and SRH would like to come back to winning ways at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad.

SRH vs CSK: The Toss

The toss of a coin can be crucial at this venue. Of the 72 IPL matches played at this venue so far, only 32 times teams batting first have won the match while 40 times the chasing side has emerged victorious. This means a success rate of 44 percent for batting first against a 56 percent chance of winning for teams batting second.

Thus, the team winning the toss here would like to field first, see what the opposition scores, and then plan their chase. However, a strong trend in chasing has not necessarily translated into teams doing the same after winning the toss as 25 times teams that won the toss lost the match while 37 times teams that lost the toss won the match.

SRH vs CSK: The Pitch

The wicket has been slightly on the slower side, and it usually provides a balanced outlook to the batters and bowlers. The average runs scored per over is 8.08 here with an average of 26.30 runs per wicket. The average score batting first on this venue is 161.

SRH has a strong batting lineup that includes Travis Head, Aiden Markram, Klassen, and Abhishek Sharma. They will test the bowling of CSK. Meanwhile, CSK have Rachin Ravindra, Ruturaj Gaikwad, and Mitchell in good form. They also enjoyed a superb fifty by MSD in the last game that brought back the memories of a vintage Dhoni. Hyderabad looks poised for a big scoring affair on Friday evening.

The game is scheduled to begin at 7:30 PM IST.