New Delhi: Rajasthan Royals and Sunrisers Hyderabad will shoot it out in New Delhi for the IPL eliminator bearing in mind full well that there will not be another opportunity to make amends. A defeat at the Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium on Wednesday will end the tournament for either team.
Hyderabad are undoubtedly the surprise entry in the play-offs, but one has to say that they used their little resources to the maximum to move ahead of Royal Challengers Bangalore and defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders - two sides far stronger on paper. Interestingly, Hyderabad beat Rajasthan in their penultimate league match to put one foot in the knock-outs. The first encounter between these two teams, however, went to Rajasthan. Going by that, there is no clear favourite for Wednesday's match but Rajasthan look a far more balanced side with both their batting and bowling coming good.
Rahul Dravid, Ajinkya Rahane and Shane Watson - all of whom have scored in excess of 400 runs in IPL 6 - form the backbone of the batting. With Karnataka allrounder Stuart Binny thriving in his role in his first full-time IPL season - he has several match-winning cameos - and the presence of Twenty20 cricket's leading run-scorer in the veteran Brad Hodge, Rajasthan's batting outweighs that of Hyderabad's by some margin.
Barring Shikhar Dhawan (278 runs in nine matches), who joined the team in the latter part of tournament after recovering from injury, none of Hyderabad's batsmen inspire
10:11 PM, May 21, 2013
Hyderabad: The race for the fourth spot still hangs in the balance, and Sunrisers Hyderabad face the last obstacle in their path. After handing Rajasthan Royals one of their more comprehensive defeats this season, Hyderabad have taken out quite a few positives. Defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders are already out of the tournament after their "mathematical equation" was laid to rest by party poopers Pune Warriors but Gautam Gambhir and...
12:18 AM, May 19, 2013
Hyderabad: After losing a hard-fought contest to Mumbai Indians on Wednesday, Rajasthan Royals were jolted by a spot-fixing scandal the next day which involved three of its players being arrested on allegations of illegal activity. To recover from something as big as this requires a lot of effort but Rajasthan is just the team that has the capability to do it and maintain the bar they have set in this...
07:42 PM, May 16, 2013
Mumbai: Kieron Pollard made a blistering 27-ball 66* as Mumbai Indians came from behind to register a thumping seven-wicket win over Sunrisers Hyderabad and put one foot in the IPL 6 play-offs at the Wankhede Stadium on Monday night. In pursuit of 179, Pollard and Rohit Sharma (20*) added 85 runs in 37 balls to take Mumbai over the line with three balls to go. This was Mumbai's 10th win...
11:15 PM, May 13, 2013
Battle for the play-off spots hots up as Mumbai Indians and Sunrisers Hyderabad lock horns in Game 62 of this season of Indian Premier League at the Wankhede Stadium on Monday. The Rohit-Sharma led side is placed second on the league table, having won nine out of 13 matches. Hyderabad, on the other hand, have eight victories in 13 games and need a win here to make life a bit...
07:45 PM, May 12, 2013
Mohali: After having virtually brought Kings XI Punjab's campaign to an abrupt end in IPL 6 inflicting a 30-run defeat on them, Sunrisers Hyderabad coach Tom Moody on Saturday heaped praise on his opener Parthiv Patel, saying he played a very mature innings. He said the team which had improved their chances of reaching the play-off stage by virtue of the win was not looking at the net run rate....
08:35 AM, May 12, 2013
Jaipur: Sunrisers Hyderabad's stop-gap captain Cameron White feels that his batsmen need to step up and take responsibility as individuals with the bat and make sure that they put up some better scores for their bowlers to defend. Sunrisers suffered a batting collapse here Saturday as Rajasthan Royals won the match by eight wickets at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium. Sunrisers were left reeling at 19/5 at one stage but they...
05:23 PM, Apr 28, 2013
This is not the first time that he has done it and surely not the last time as well. MS Dhoni led Chennai Super Kings to yet another close victory on Thursday. Although Cameron White, the Sunrisers Hyderabad skipper, might have helped him with his bizarre decision to give the last over to Ashish Reddy, who had not bowled previously in the innings, when 15 runs were needed. And Dhoni...
09:08 AM, Apr 26, 2013
Live updates from Game 34 of IPL 6 being played at Chennai's MA Chidamabaram Stadium between two time champions CSK and the debutants Sunrisers Hyderabad. Having won three matches back to back, a confident Chennai Super Kings' batting will be subjected to a test against the in-form bowling of Sunrisers Hyderabad. And with five victories out of seven matches played so far, both the teams are going strong with 10...
06:57 PM, Apr 25, 2013
Hyderabad: Sunrisers Hyderabad have been in a stupendous run in the IPL and their captain Cameron White Saturday said that they can do even better by improving on the batting front. "Our batting needs to improve. Bowling is outstanding. The bowlers led by these two gentlemen [Dale Steyn and Ishant Sharma, who were sitting beside him] are doing a great job. We need to lift our batting. If we make...
11:46 PM, Apr 20, 2013
Hyderabad: Sunrisers Hyderabad might be currently holding the top spot in the points table in the sixth edition of the IPL but captain Cameron White feels his team is still the underdog. "Definitely, we are very much still the underdogs. I think there are some big teams out there who are playing really well. We are fighting very hard in every game against any opposition. We definitely don't see ourselves...
12:59 PM, Apr 20, 2013
Live updates from Game 25 of IPL 6 between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Kings XI Punjab at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad on Friday. Both the teams have won their previous matches and will look to get another win under their belt. Knowing he wouldn't play in the team's next game in Chennai, Sunrisers' skipper Kumar Sangakkara left himself out and drafted in young South African wicketkeeper batsman Quinton...
07:20 PM, Apr 19, 2013
Bangalore: Royal Challenger Bangalore have a tough task on their hands when they play the in-form Sunrisers Hyderabad at the Chinnaswamy Stadium in IPL 6 on Tuesday. Playing at home on Sunday, Hyderabad got the better of Bangalore in a Super Over thriller thanks to Cameron White's heroics with the bat. In their first match on April 5, they had beaten Pune Warriors India after Amit Mishra, Thisara Perera and...
07:11 PM, Apr 08, 2013
Hyderabad: They are unbeaten so far but Sunrisers Hyderabad batsman Cameron White feels the team's batsmen need to lift their game to make the bowlers' job a little easy. "We need to lift our game as batsmen. The bowlers are doing a good job. From a batting point of view, myself definitely included, we have to make the bowlers' job a bit easier and bat better," he told reporters late...
11:48 AM, Apr 08, 2013
In an another low scoring thriller, Sunrisers Hyderabad prevailed over Royal Challengers Bangalore in the first Super Over of IPL 6 at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad on Sunday. Hyderabad scored 20 runs in the Super Over with Cameron White hitting two sixes off Vinay Kumar. In reply, Royal Challengers Bangalore fell short by six runs with Chris Gayle and Virat Kohli scoring 15 against Dale Steyn in...
12:05 AM, Apr 08, 2013
White, a Melbourne Stars batsman, has labelled as "remarkable" the reprimand given to Marlon Samuels. ...
04:58 PM, Jan 24, 2013
The captains of each team in last night's match also incur one strike. ...
04:38 PM, Jan 09, 2013
Sun TV has decided to retain six overseas players like Dale Steyn, Jean Paul Duminy, Kumar Sangakkara, Cameron White, Chris Lynn and Juan Theron. ...
09:24 AM, Nov 02, 2012
White re-signed to the Melbourne Stars for the domestic Twenty20 competition, but stepped down as captain. ...
03:29 PM, Jul 17, 2012
After dashing Rajasthan's hopes to make it to the playoffs, Deccan will now look to upset Bangalore, says White. ...
11:58 AM, May 19, 2012
