The 70th match of IPL 2022 between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Punjab Kings will be played on Sunday, 22 May 2022 at The Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai. The match will start at 07:30 PM local time.

SRH is a strong batting team but unfortunately, they had not been impressive in IPL 2022. The key reason why they had lost so many matches in the failure of the batting department of Hyderabad. They made some key changes in the batting order and also give a chance to some new players from the bench strength in the most recent match against Mumbai. That match was very interesting which they won by the margin of just three runs. Abhishek Sharma and Priyam Garg opened the batting inning for SRH. Rahul Tripathi, Nicholas Pooran, Markram, Kane Williamson, and Washington Sundar are handling the middle batting order of SRH. They scored 193 runs in 20 overs. Rahul Tripathi was the most successful batter in the previous match with 76 runs to his name on 44 balls with the help of nine boundaries and three huge sixes. Priyam Garg also performed well with the bat and scored 42 runs on just 26 balls and smashed four boundaries and two huge sixes during his inning. Nicholas Pooran was the other batter who was good with the bat.

PBKS is the other team that has the services of the best batters as they picked the most experienced batters of the T20 format of the cricket in IPL 2022 auctions. They have the batters like Jonny Bairstow, Shikhar Dhawan, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Liam Livingstone, Mayank Agarwal, Jitesh Sharma, Harpreet Brar, and Rishi Dhawan. These all batters had disappointed their fans. They could manage to score just 142 runs while chasing the target of 160 runs. Jitesh Sharma was the highest run-scorer in the previous match with 44 runs to his name on 34 balls with the help of three boundaries and two huge sixes. Jonny Bairstow also performed well with the bat and scored 28 runs on just 15 balls. He smashed four boundaries and one huge six during his inning. Rahul Chahar was the other batter who performed well with the bat and scored 25 runs while Shikhar Dhawan has 19 runs to his name. We think that the management of PBKS will test some new batters from the bench strength in this match as they have nothing to lose.

Hyderabad had faced Punjab in 19 matches where SRH had won 13 matches while Punjab had won just six matches.

Sunrisers Hyderabad had won two out of the most recent five matches they had played while Punjab Kings had also won two matches out of five recently played matches.

Punjab Kings is a strong and well-balanced team and has a strong batting and bowling department which is in good form. The batting and bowling squad of this team is much stronger at least on papers. According to today prediction, Punjab Kings is the favorite team who will win this match. There are many factors that make Punjab Kings a favorite team to win this match. Some of the key factors are mentioned as under:

• PBKS is overall a strong team of IPL 2022 than SRH
• SRH had already beaten Punjab in this tournament
• The batting order of PBKS is very strong
• The bowling department of PBKS had been good in the previous match

Punjab Kings is overall a strong team when we compare with Sunrisers Hyderabad. They have the best players in the t20 format of cricket. The batting order of this team is also strong and some well-known hitters of the t20 format are part of the squad of this team, so the winning chances of today’s match for Punjab Kings have been increased. The equation of who will win today’s cricket match prediction and who will win the cricket match today is mentioned as under.

Punjab Kings have a 52% chance of winning this match
Sunrisers Hyderabad has a 48% chance to win this match

The toss is going to play an important in the result of each and every match of IPL 2022 as we had observed in the previous matches. According to toss prediction, the team who will win the toss will elect to field first as defending had been difficult in the most recent matches of IPL.

The 70th match of IPL T20, 2022 is going to be held at the Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai. We had observed in the previous matches played here that the pitch here at this venue is good for batting in early overs. The track has a good amount of pace and bounce which allows the batsmen to the good cricketing shorts but this ground also have big boundaries which can be a plus point for the bowlers. A score of 190 plus seems to be a par score.

The weather forecast for Mumbai is good for this cricket match. There are almost no chances of rain in the region and we are hopeful that we will have a full match to enjoy.

Sunrisers Hyderabad
Kane Williamson (c), Rahul Tripathi, Aiden Markram, Nicholas Pooran (wk), Priyam Garg, Washington Sundar, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Umran Malik, T Natarajan, Abhishek Sharma.

Punjab Kings
Mayank Agarwal (c), Jitesh Sharma (wk), Shikhar Dhawan, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Liam Livingstone, Harpreet Brar, Rishi Dhawan, Kagiso Rabada, Rahul Chahar, Arshdeep Singh, Jonny Bairstow.

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Date: Sunday, 22nd May 2022
Time: 02:00 PM GMT / 07:30 PM LOCAL / 07:30 PM IST

Stadium: Wankhede Stadium
Location: Mumbai, India
Opened: 1974
Capacity: 33,000
Ends: Garware Pavilion End, Tata End
Time Zone: UTC +05:30
Home to: Mumbai
Floodlights: Yes
Curator: Sudhir Naik

Total matches: 7
Matches won batting first: 2
Matches won bowling first: 5
Average 1st Inns scores: 194
Average 2nd Inns scores: 182
Highest total recorded: 240/3 (20 Ov) by IND vs WI
Lowest total recorded: 172/10 (20 Ov) by AFG vs RSA
Highest score chased: 230/8 (19.4 Ov) by ENG vs RSA
Lowest score defended: 209/5 (20 Ov) by RSA vs AFG

Sean Abbott, Ravikumar Samarth, Shreyas Gopal, Jagadeesha Suchith, Glenn Phillips, Vishnu Vinod, Kartik Tyagi, Romario Shepherd, Abdul Samad, Sushant Mishra, Shashank Singh, Marco Jansen, Abhishek Sharma, Priyam Garg, Kane Williamson (c), Rahul Tripathi, Aiden Markram, Nicholas Pooran (wk), Washington Sundar, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Umran Malik, T Natarajan.