Both Sunrisers Hyderabad and Kings XI Punjab had a good start to the season, with two wins from two matches each, but have since lost a bit of momentum.
Coming off back-to-back losses, both teams will be desperate for a win as they face off in the late Monday fixture at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad.
Ahead of the match, we have the latest team news, time and date, as well as how you can watch all the action from the UAE.
DATE, TIME, VENUE INFO
Date: April 17, 2017 (Monday)
Time: 18:30 GST, 20:00 local time (IST), 14:30 GMT
Venue: Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderabad
WHERE TO WATCH, LIVE STREAMING INFO
TV: UAE – OSN Sports Cricket HD, India – Sony Six, Sony Six HD (English), Sony Max, Sony Max HD 3 (Hindi), UK – Sky Sports
Online streaming: hotstar.com, Hotstar app (in India only)
LIVE: Sport360.com.
TEAM NEWS, SQUADS, PREDICTED XIs
SRH SQUAD: David Warner, Shikhar Dhawan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Moises Henriques, Mustafizur Rahman, Naman Ojha, Deepak Hooda, Ricky Bhui, Kane Williamson, Siddarth Kaul, Bipul Sharma, Ashish Nehra, Yuvraj Singh, Ben Cutting, Barinder Sran, Abhimanyu Mithun, Vijay Shankar, Tanmay Agarwal, Mohammad Nabi, Ekalavya Dwivedi, Rashid Khan, Pravin Tambe, Chris Jordan, Ben Laughlin, Mohammed Siraj.
Having missed the last match, Mustafizur Rahman is likely to be re-called into the XI at the expense of either Moises Henriques or Ben Cutting.
If Mustafizur does come into the team, the defending champions might tinker with their batting line-up and could probably play an extra batsman.
PREDICTED SRH XI: Warner (c), Dhawan, Henriques, Yuvraj, Hooda, Ojha (wk), Bipul, Rashid, Bhuvneshwar, Nehra, Mustafizur.
KXIP SQUAD: David Miller, Manan Vohra, Axar Patel, Murali Vijay, Glenn Maxwell, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Anureet Singh, Sandeep Sharma, Shaun Marsh, Wriddhiman Saha, Nikhil Naik, Mohit Sharma, Marcus Stoinis, KC Cariappa, Armaan Jaffer, Pardeep Sahu, Swapnil Singh, Hashim Amla, Eoin Morgan, Martin Guptill, Matt Henry, Darren Sammy, T Natarajan, Varun Aaron, Rahul Tewatia, Rinku Singh.
The Kings XI’s bowling, especially in the death overs, wasn’t up to the mark against the Delhi Daredevils in their previous game and they might be tempted to bring T Natarajan back into the line-up.
England limited overs skipper Eoin Morgan will most probably get another game despite failing to convert a start in the last match.
PREDICTED KXIP XI: Vohra, Amla, Saha, Morgan, Maxwell (c), Miller, Axar, Mohit, Sandeep, Cariappa, Natarajan.
FORM
(Last five matches – with latest match first)
SRH: L L W W W
KXIP: L L W W L
MATCH PREDICTION
The Sunrisers to get back on track with a win over the Kings XI whose bowling continues to be a problem.