It will be the first game of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022 outside of Mumbai. It will also be the final game of the first round. Rajasthan Royals take on Sunrisers Hyderabad in a battle of past champions today, with both teams looking to get off to a winning start in the IPL.<\/p>\n
Kane Williamson wins the toss and chose to bowl first.<\/p>\n
Rajasthan Royals (Playing XI):<\/strong> Yashasvi Jaiswal, Jos Buttler, Devdutt Padikkal, Sanju Samson(w\/c), Shimron Hetmyer, Riyan Parag, Ravichandran Ashwin, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Yuzvendra Chahal, Trent Boult, Prasidh Krishna<\/p>\n Sunrisers Hyderabad (Playing XI):<\/strong> Abhishek Sharma, Rahul Tripathi, Kane Williamson(c), Nicholas Pooran(w), Aiden Markram, Abdul Samad, Washington Sundar, Romario Shepherd, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, T Natarajan, Umran Malik<\/p>\n Throughout the game, the surface will assist fast bowlers, and batsmen should expect plenty of chin music. They will, however, have chances to score runs.<\/p>\n Rajasthan Royals had finished sixth in the previous season\u2019s points standings, while Hyderabad had ended last.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The countdown has begun for IPL match number five, which will see Sunrisers Hyderabad take on Rajasthan Royals in Pune. Hyderabad and Rajasthan are hoping for a strong start to the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":39933,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[465],"class_list":["post-19254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl","tag-rajasthan-royals"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}