Stabroek News Sunday

Who will it be?

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While Manish Pandey has not had a big standout score in the last few games, he has not looked out of sorts either.

On one side we have Marcus Stoinis, on the other we have Jason Holder. Both the all-rounders have put up their hands and delivered for their teams. While Stoinis, who has 314 runs and nine wickets to his name, was pivotal to DC’s early surge in the tournament, Holder, who was brought into the side as a replacemen­t, has revived SRH’s campaign with 13 wickets from six matches and some match-winning contributi­ons with the bat – against RCB in the Eliminator and the penultimat­e league-stage encounter. The two will once again be in the thick of action and can swing the course of the Qualifier 2.

The pair of Kagiso Rabada and Anrich Nortje were at the centre of DC’s domination in the first half of the tournament where the team won seven out of nine matches. Overall, the South African duo has enjoyed a fine season, taking 45 wickets between them this season. However, as DC look to bounce back from five defeats from the last six matches and make it to their maiden IPL final, Rabada and Nortje will have their task cut out.

Coming to SRH pacers, they have hunted as a unit and that has served the team, which had lost the experience­d Bhuvneshwa­r Kumar to an injury early in the season, well, helping them to reach the top four. While T Natarajan has 16 wickets to his name, Sandeep Sharma and Jason Holder have scalped 13 wickets each.

Rashid Khan, Mr Parsimonio­us of IPL 2020, has 19 wickets to his name, with an economy rate of 5.30. The leggie has been someone that SRH have turned to and he has not let his team down. On the other side, there’s R Ashwin. The veteran India off-spinner, who has 13 wickets to his name this season, is coming into this game on the back a fine bowling performanc­e – 3/29 – against MI, and DC will once again turn to the wily spinner as they take on the likes of Warner, Williamson and Manish.

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