IPL 2026 – Pat Cummins returns as SRH opt to bowl against RR

Throw Sunrises Hyderabad chose to bowl vs Rajasthan Royals

It was SRH’s first toss win of the season: stand-in captain Ishan Kishan lost all seven he contested.

Cummins came in SRHs

Both teams left out a spinner for a seamer. For RR, Tushar Deshpande came in for leg-spinner Ravi Bishnoi, who dropped to the Impact Player bench.

Travis Head starts the match on the subs bench for SRH. He will likely slot in as Impact Player when they begin their chase.

Both teams will be looking to boost their chances of a top-four league finish in this match, with RR picking up ten points in their first seven matches, and SRH eight in seven.

Rajasthan Royals: 1 Yashasvi Jaiswal, 2 Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, 3 Dhruv Jurel (wk), 4 Riyan Parag (capt), 5 Shimron Hetmyer, 6 Donovan Ferreira, 7 Ravindra Jadeja, 8 Jofra Archer, 9 Tushar Deshpande, 10 Nandre Burger, 11 Nandre Burger, 11. Impact Subs bench: Ravi Bishnoi, Lhuan-dre Pretorius, Ravi Singh, Sandeep Sharma, Shubham Dubey.

Sunrises Hyderabad: 1 Abhishek Sharma, 2 Ishan Kishan, 3 Heinrich Klaasen, 4 Salil Arora (wk), 5 Aniket Verma, 6 Nitish Kumar Reddy, 7 Pat Cummins (capt), 8 Shivang Kumar, 9 Sakib Hussain, 10 Praful Hinge, 11 Eshan Malinga. Impact Subs Bench: Smaran R, Travis Head, Liam Livingstone, Harsh Dubey, Harshal Patel.