Big call! Ishan Kishan opts for Rs 13 crore star in clash vs LSG

NEW DELHI: Lucknow Super Giants skipper Rishabh Pant won the flip and opted to vessel against Ishan Kishan-led Sunrisers Hyderabad successful their IPL clash connected Sunday.LSG, who mislaid their opening lucifer of the play to Delhi Capitals, made 1 alteration to their playing XI, bringing successful Manimaran Siddharth successful spot of Anrich Nortje."We are looking to vessel first. The wicket is good, but astatine the aforesaid time, you know, their main spot is batting. So, fto them bat first. We tin enactment them nether unit successful the 2nd innings. We support connected coming present each year, that's not a caller challenge. But astatine the aforesaid time, this is 1 squad which tin wounded you well. But astatine the aforesaid time, whoever plays the amended cricket volition win," Pant said.

"(On the conditions) It looks similar a bully wicket for sure. But astatine the aforesaid time, determination is thing successful the wicket.

After the powerplay, I deliberation it mightiness instrumentality into the wicket arsenic much. The shot volition get older and it's going to beryllium harder to score. Just 1 change, Sid (Manimaran Siddharth) comes successful for Nortje. (Will you unfastened today?) We'll see, we'll see," helium added.Sunrisers Hyderabad, who mislaid their opener to Royal Challengers Bengaluru earlier bouncing backmost against Kolkata Knight Riders, besides made changes to their side.Kishan brought successful England all-rounder Liam Livingstone, who was signed for Rs 13 crore astatine the IPL 2026 auction, on with Harshal Patel.

"(Playing successful Hyderabad) Very happy. It's ever bully to get your location enactment and the assemblage loves the SRH team. So yeah, precise blessed to beryllium here. There are conscionable 2 changes. Livingstone comes successful and Harshal Patel comes in. Harshal Patel, he's done good whenever he's bowled here. And Livi, giving him an accidental to usage his off-spin arsenic good against the left-handers," Kishan said."In T20 especially, execution is the astir important thing.

You request to beryllium successful a bully headspace, calm and effort to prevention arsenic galore runs arsenic we can. So conscionable program good and execute your balls. And I deliberation let's spot however it goes from there. It's truly important for america to get these 2 points. But astatine the aforesaid time, we request to beryllium calm, instrumentality 1 lucifer astatine a time. And that is the full plan. Be successful a bully headspace, similar I said earlier, and conscionable play your champion crippled possible," helium added.Teams:Sunrisers Hyderabad: Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma,

Ishan Kishan

(w/c), Heinrich Klaasen, Liam Livingstone, Aniket Verma, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Harsh Dubey, Shivang Kumar, Harshal Patel, and Jaydev Unadkat.Lucknow Super Giants: Mitchell Marsh, Rishabh Pant(w/c), Aiden Markram, Nicholas Pooran, Abdul Samad, Mukul Choudhary, Manimaran Siddharth, Avesh Khan, Mohammed Shami, Digvesh Singh Rathi, and Prince Yadav.Here are the Impact substitutes for some the teams:Sunrisers Hyderabad Impact subs: Eshan Malinga, Salil Arora, David Payne, Shivam Mavi, Zeeshan AnsariLucknow Super Giants Impact subs: Ayush Badoni, Matthew Breetzke, Shahbaz Ahmed, Anrich Nortje, Himmat Singh