Pat Cummins-led Sunrisers Hyderabad are competing against Axar Patel's Delhi Capitals in match 55 of the ongoing edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 which is being played at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad, on May 5 (Monday).

DC are currently at the fifth spot on the points table and need a big win in order to get a better run rate than Mumbai Indians (3rd spot) and Gujarat Titans (4th spot) and enter the top four. On the other hand with only three wins off 10 games, SRH are only mathematically alive in the playoffs race but would need all odds to fall in their favour even if they win all their remaining games.

SRH won the toss and elected to bowl first.

Captains At Toss

"We'll bowl. We've talked about a few things, haven't had a complete game yet. Want to do the basics well. It's about giving yourself the chance, everyone's a match-winner. We bat very deep. The support has been amazing, probably haven't had the results we wanted but the crowd has been amazing. Buzzing around in the field, that's one thing we can judge ourselves on," said Pat Cummins after winning the toss.

"Would've fielded first as well, looks like a good wicket and it shouldn't change much. Will look to get a good score and restrict them. The last phase is here and these are must-win games. We've tried to keep the environment light, we weren't thinking about these things at the start of the tournament and we played well, want to go into these games with the same mindset and not let the situation pressure us. We've had different players contribute, we haven't been dependant on one player. It's important to continue the momentum. We want to have close games, even if we lose, we don't want to lose by big margins. No changes," said Axar.

SRH vs DC Playing XIs

Sunrisers Hyderabad: Abhishek Sharma, Ishan Kishan (wk), Sachin Baby, Heinrich Klaasen, Aniket Verma, Abhinav Manohar, Pat Cummins (c), Harshal Patel, Zeeshan Ansari, Eshan Malinga, Jaydev Unadkat

Delhi Capitals: Abishek Porel, Faf du Plessis, Karun Nair, KL Rahul (wk), Axar Patel (capt), Tristan Stubbs, Vipraj Nigam, Mitchell Starc, Dushmantha Chameera, Kuldeep Yadav, T Natarajan

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