Recovering from injury, Bangladesh’s bowling sensation Mustafizur Rahman returned in the Sunrisers Hyderabad XI to play the Indian Premier League (IPL) final against Royal Challengers Bangalore at M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore on Sunday.
David Warner won the toss and elected to bat first against Virat Kohli’s RCB.
Mustafiz back in the team replacing the New Zealand left-handed pace bowler Trent Boult, who replaced injured Mustafiz in the 2nd qualifier for a 4-wicket win against Gujrat Lions at Feroz Shah Kotla on Friday.
Satkhira’s young lad Mustafiz making IPL debut, played so far 15 matches for SRH and captured 16 wickets for 384 runs with best 3/16,
against Mum Indians, and at average 24.00 and economy rat 6.73.
SRH XI: David Warner (captain), Shikhar Dhawan, Moises Henriques, Yuvraj Singh, Deepak Hooda, Ben Cutting, Naman Ojha, Bipul Sharma, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Barinder Sran and Mustafizur Rahman.
RCB XI: Chris Gayle, Virat Kohli (captain), AB de Villiers, Lokesh Rahul, Shane Watson, Sachin Baby, Stuart Binny, Iqbal Abdulla, Chris Jordan, Sreenath Aravind and Yuzvendra Chahal.
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