Boult to Abhishek Sharma, 2 runs, 136.6kph, short of length ball around off and middle, Abhishek Sharma opens his bat-face to steer it behind square on the off-side

Boult to Abhishek Sharma, FOUR, Boult hurls it full, hint of away swing,

Boult to Abhishek Sharma, SIX, 132.1kph, Boult pulls his length back, Abhishek Sharma spots it and stands tall

Boult to Abhishek Sharma, no run, 132.6kph, full ball swinging away outside off, Abhishek Sharma comes down the track and moves leg-side in the process to flay it through the covers. Beaten on the outside edge!

Boult to Head, 1 run, 133.7kph, bit of extra bounce from a short of length, Head hops to nudge it into the leg-side and he might have got an inside edge onto his body. The ball dies down on the leg-side

Head and Abhishek Sharma are at the crease. Head is on strike. Boult will open the attack

Action time. The RR players stride out to the middle

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Here are the Impact substitutes for both the teams

Sunrisers Hyderabad Impact Subs: Umran Malik, Sanvir Singh, Glenn Phillips, Mayank Markande, Shahbaz Ahmed

Rajasthan Royals Impact Subs: Shimron Hetmyer, Nandre Burger, Shubham Dubey, Donovan Ferreira, Kuldeep Sen

Teams:

Sunrisers Hyderabad (Playing XI): Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Rahul Tripathi, Nitish Reddy, Aiden Markram, Heinrich Klaasen(w), Abdul Samad, Pat Cummins(c), Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jaydev Unadkat, T Natarajan

Rajasthan Royals (Playing XI): Yashasvi Jaiswal, Tom Kohler-Cadmore, Sanju Samson(w/c), Riyan Parag, Dhruv Jurel, Rovman Powell, Ravichandran Ashwin, Trent Boult, Avesh Khan, Sandeep Sharma, Yuzvendra Chahal

Pat Cummins: That's fine, we would have bowled.

Sanju Samson: We would like to bowl first looking at the conditions and what Chepauk offers in the second half. We are trying our best to recover, the doctors are doing a great job. We are doing much better. We played 70% of our potential with batting and we managed to cross the line. We'd like to be better. Each and every venue, the dimensions change. We are well equipped to prepare accordingly. Same line-up.

Rajasthan Royals have won the toss and have opted to field

Heinrich Klaasen: It's a very humbling feeling, the crowd has been fantastic this season. Hopefully it keeps on growing. If we win here tonight, they'll grow up more. (Personal form) Little bit disappointed with how the middle phase of the tournament went. But the last two games, I am quite pleased, small errors here and there, that's quite easy to fix. Hopefully tonight I can rectify those small errors and make a big impact in the game. I don't think the way we have played so far is going to change tonight at all. It's a semi-final, a lot of big individuals need to step up and keep playing our type of brand. If we play our brand of cricket, we will put teams under pressure. It's a different wicket, boundary size does play a role here. Straight is not too long, the one square boundary is sometimes a little bit bigger than you think it is. Still need to be clever in the way you do things. Hopefully we can get over the line tonight and put on a better performance in the final.

"SRH bowling coach James Franklin is having a long chat with Vijayakanth Viyaskanth while Mayank Markande bowls on the side," spots Prakash. "A swap there could allow them to bring back Markram, if they feel batting needs strengthening after Q1."

Pitch Report | Ian Bishop and Matthew Hayden: "There's a nice wind coming across the ground. That has helped me keep a little cool because the humidity is quite severe. We are here on pitch number 7 - we haven't used it at all for this IPL 2024. 61 metres and 72 metres square boundaries - tactically, where the offspiner bowls and where the legspinner bowls come into play. Down the ground - 77 metres - a lot of muscle needed. It looks dark compared to some of the other pitches on the square. This surface is extremely hard. It's black clay, that means it'll hold together really well. Whatever moisture has been put into the surface, it's really going to mesh it all together. I expect a bit of bounce for the seamers, not a lot of turn for the spinners. The only defence for the spinners will be they've got that huge boundary to hit up against. In terms of runs, it's a 175-180 type wicket. We know what Sunrisers Hyderabad's blueprint is - it's to score massive. If you do win the toss, Sunrisers will have a bat, put a big load of pressure on the Royals and let's see how they go. The groundsman says there won't be any dew."