Indian Premier League T20 Cricket - Teams Review - Part 3 - Review of SRH and RR

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Wow, just 2 more days away for the Indian Premier League T20 tournament to begin and I have 4 more teams to review with 2 going down today!!!!

Before I proceed with the reviews, let's see what are the new news we had in last couple of days including new CoVid 19 cases with players and supporting staff.

Well, in CoVid news first, Sachin Tendulkar got discharged from the hospital and we can re-collect that, he was found Corona positive during his stint for seniors team in Road Safety Series held in Sri Lanka and he was part of the victorious Indian team.

It's notable to note that, MS Dhoni may not hang his boots after this year's IPL even if he isn't firing like he used to do as per press release by CSK team and that will be something to cheer for his fans all around the World.

Meanwhile Devdutt Padikkal's fresh Covid test seems to have returned a negative result and he started practicing with RCB team mates for that all important opening match to be held tomorrow as part of inauguration.

We had a review of teams Royal Challengers Bangalore and Chennai Super Kings in First blog and had a review of Kolkata Knight Riders and Delhi Capitals in Second blog and here I go with the Third one with teams Sunrisers Hyderabad and Rajasthan Royals getting reviewed today.

P.S: If you are hearing about Indian Premier League T20 Cricket, you got to look into this to know in detail what it is.

Sunrisers Hyderabad:

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Sunrisers Hyderabad', the team which played in the playoffs as Fourth team last year is a team which finds someone in each match who stands up and deliver to take the team thru.

SRH has one of the best bowling unit in the tournament with the likes of Bhuvaneshwar Kumar, T Natarajan, Rashid Khan, Sandeep Sharma and Jason Holder and they can even defend a score around 140 as they showed in some of the matches in last IPL.

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New Players Purchased:

SRH didn't purchase any high profile players since they already have some of the BIG names in World cricket and they included 3 players in Kedar Jadhav, J Suchith and Mujeeb Zadran to fill some of the gaps they felt.

SRH's batting looks formidable with David Warner and/or Johnny Bairstow as openers and middle order comprising of Kane Williamson, Manish Pandey followed by all-rounders like Vijay Shankar, Jason Holder and wicket keeper Wridhiman Saha and bowlers Bhuvaneshwar Kumar, Sandeep Sharm, Rashid Khan and T Natarajan might be in the starting Eleven barring any injury concerns or behavior of the pitch.

SRH will have selection problems since their overseas players are good enough to play in all the matches, but they do have restrictions of playing only 4 overseas players and David Warner, Kane Williamson, jason Holder and Rashid Khan looks to be the automatic choice and that means, we may see Wridhiman Saha donning gloves and also coming in as an opener with his skipper.

Rajasthan Royals:

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Rajasthan Royals are the winners of the inauguration edition of IPL in 2008 and they haven't come closer to that after that initial year and they will be itching to play their level above and come closer to win their second title.

RR have a new captain in Sanju Samson and that assures him of a play in all the matches RR plays and Sanju Samson is one of the most prolific batsmen and when he is on song, he can Sixes at will and that is something the other teams will be looking out for.

New Players Purchased:

RR left out players like Steve Smith, Tom Curran and brought in players Chris Morris, Shivam Dube, Mustafizur Rahman and Liam Livingstone out of the 8 new players they brought.

RR is a formidable unit with Jos Buttler and Robin Uthappa might be opening once again with Sanju Samson Ben Stokes and David Miller competing in middle order and the likes of allrounders in Rahul Tewatia and Shreyas Gopal coming in next followed by bowlers Kartik Tyagi oh not to forget Chris Morris, their million Dollar baby will be the one they will play in starting Eleven.

Jofra Archer most probably out of half of the tournament and his absence will be felt by team of RR as he was the most valuable player last year.

With 6 of the 8 teams reviewed, we are left with Punjab Kings (The same old Kings XI Punjab being re-named) and defending champions Mumbai Indians to complete the 8 teams.

With no home advantage, all teams will be assessing the pitches in their respective first matches and that is something should go well with players and should make this year's IPL even more interesting and we aren't sure how the pitches will be behaving.

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That's all I wanted to highlight in this review blog and we are just a days away from the IPL beginning with Mumbai Indians and Royal Challengers Bangalore itching to go and take that first win from the First match itself.

Thanks and Wishing you all Good Day :)

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