Cummins returns as SRH opt to bowl vs RR

This was SRH's first toss win of the season: stand-in captain Ishan Kishan had lost all seven he had contested

Toss Sunrisers Hyderabad chose to bowl vs Rajasthan Royals

Pat Cummins, returning as Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) captain and playing his first competitive game since the Adelaide Ashes Test in mid-December, has chosen to bowl against Rajasthan Royals (RR) in Jaipur.

This was SRH's first toss win of the season: stand-in captain Ishan Kishan had lost all seven he had contested.

Cummins came into SRH's XI for the Sri Lanka quick Dilshan Madushanka, in one of two changes in the bowling department, with seamer Praful Hinge - who picked up a match-winning four-wicket haul on IPL debut in the reverse fixture in Hyderabad - also returning to the XI in place of left-arm spinner Harsh Dubey.

Both teams left out a spinner for a seamer. For RR, Tushar Deshpande came in for the legspinner Ravi Bishnoi, who dropped onto the Impact Player bench.

Travis Head starts the game on the subs bench for SRH. He is likely to slot in as Impact Player when they begin their chase.

Both teams will look to firm up their chances of a top-four league finish coming into this game, with RR having picked up ten points in their first seven games, and SRH eight in seven.

Rajasthan Royals: 1 Yashasvi Jaiswal, 2 Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, 3 Dhruv Jurel (wk), 4 Riyan Parag (capt), 5 Shimron Hetmyer, 6 Donovan Ferreira, 7 Ravindra Jadeja, 8 Jofra Archer, 9 Tushar Deshpande, 10 Nandre Burger, 11 Brijesh Sharma.

Impact Subs bench: Ravi Bishnoi, Lhuan-dre Pretorius, Ravi Singh, Sandeep Sharma, Shubham Dubey.

Sunrisers Hyderabad: 1 Abhishek Sharma, 2 Ishan Kishan, 3 Heinrich Klaasen, 4 Salil Arora (wk), 5 Aniket Verma, 6 Nitish Kumar Reddy, 7 Pat Cummins (capt), 8 Shivang Kumar, 9 Sakib Hussain, 10 Praful Hinge, 11 Eshan Malinga.

Impact Subs bench: Smaran R, Travis Head, Liam Livingstone, Harsh Dubey, Harshal Patel.