Visakhapatnam, Mar 30 (UNI) Sunrisers Hyderabad won the toss and elected to bat against Delhi Capitals in the 10th match of the IPL 2025 at Dr YS Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDA Cricket Stadium in Visakhapatnam on Sunday.

Delhi received a boost with the return of KL Rahul to the playing XI, replacing Sameer Rizvi.

Hyderabad captain Pat Cummins stated that his team preferred batting first in the afternoon game due to the hot conditions. "We’ll have a bat. Afternoon game, tends to be hot. We put on some big scores last season. We weren’t worried either way. We were a long way from our best in the last game, but the boys are still positive. Zeeshan Ansari comes in," Cummins said.

Delhi skipper Axar Patel said that his team would have opted to bat as well but would now look to restrict the opposition to a low total. "We would have batted as well. We’ll look to restrict them to a low score. We have played one game here, and we were working on our plans. We need to be brave as a bowling unit. We have certain plans," Axar said.

Teams:

Sunrisers Hyderabad (Playing XI): Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Ishan Kishan, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Heinrich Klaasen(w), Aniket Verma, Abhinav Manohar, Pat Cummins(c), Zeeshan Ansari, Harshal Patel, Mohammed Shami

Impact Subs: Sachin Baby, Eshan Malinga, Simarjeet Singh, Adam Zampa Wiaan Mulder

Delhi Capitals (Playing XI): Jake Fraser-McGurk, Faf du Plessis, Abishek Porel(w), KL Rahul, Axar Patel(c), Tristan Stubbs, Vipraj Nigam, Mitchell Starc, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohit Sharma, Mukesh Kumar

Impact Subs: Karun Nair, Ashutosh Sharma, Sameer Rizvi, Donovan Ferreira Tripurana Vijay

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