Sunrisers Hyderabad’s head coach Trevor Bayliss didn’t wish to spill the beans as far as selecting the playing eleven for the team’s upcoming game against Rajasthan Royals was concerned. On Saturday, September 25, the Orange Army slumped to their eighth defeat in nine games in IPL 2021 after their five-run loss to the Punjab Kings at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium.

On being asked if England’s Jason Roy is in contention for the next game, Bayliss didn’t answer in the affirmative. Rather, the veteran said that calls on selecting the eleven will be taken in a team meeting on Sunday, September 26. Roy is yet to get a game for SRH after being roped in as a replacement for Australia’s Mitchell Marsh.

“Jason Roy is obviously our spare overseas batter. I am sure the management will get together to discuss and pick a team. I am not going to select a team right now. We’ll sleep on that, think about it, and have a selection meeting tomorrow (Sunday),” Bayliss was quoted as saying.

Former South Africa captain Shaun Pollock analysed SRH's poor batting and pointed out issues that has been their problem throughout. Of course, there is David Warner's poor form, but furthermore, it is the repeated failures and selection of two Indian batsmen in the middle-order – Manish Pandey and Kedar Jadhav – that the former SA pacer is confused with. Pandey scored 13, while Jadhav managed 12 before both were bowled by leg-spinner Ravi Bishnoi.

Delhi Capitals (DC) team keeps getting better with each performance in the 14th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL). With their latest win over Rajasthan Royals (RR), the team has now surpassed Chennai Super Kings (CSK) in the points table and are in the number one position with 16 points.

Shreyas Iyer and Shimron Hetmyer were instrumental in DC winning the match by 33 runs. While the Indian batter contributed with a handy 43 runs, the West Indian played a little cameo scoring 28 runs off just 16 b.