IPL 2026, SRH vs LSG: In IPL 2026, Sunrisers Hyderabad team is playing its third match against Lucknow Super Giants. This is the first home match of Hyderabad. For this match, team captain Ishan Kishan made major changes in the playing 11. An explosive batsman has entered the team, for whom Sunrisers Hyderabad had paid Rs 13 crore in the auction. This player was a part of Royal Challengers Bangalore last season and the team also became IPL champion.
Debut of 13 crore player for SRH
Sunrisers Hyderabad made two major changes in the playing 11 for this big match. Harshal Patel and Liam Livingston entered the playing 11. Livingston is considered a match finisher. Along with this, he also bowls. This is also the debut match of Liam Livingston for Sunrisers Hyderabad. Livingston plays T20 leagues around the world and has experience of 340 matches. This player has scored 7672 runs in T20 at an average of 28.00. He has 2 centuries and 48 half-centuries to his name. His strike rate is 144.70.
Uppal, meet your Risers who will take the field today
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— SunRisers Hyderabad (@SunRisers) April 5, 2026
Whereas, if we talk about bowling, he has bowled a total of 188 times in 340 matches and has taken 148 wickets. He has also achieved the feat of taking 4 wickets in an innings twice. At the same time, Livingston’s IPL career is of 49 matches. During this period he has scored 1051 runs. But last season he was able to score only 112 runs in 8 innings at an average of 16.
Playing 11 of both teams
Sunrisers Hyderabad- Abhishek Sharma, Travis Head, Ishan Kishan (captain), Heinrich Klaasen, Liam Livingston, Aniket Verma, Nitish Reddy, Harsh Dubey, Shivang Kumar, Jaydev Unadkat, Harshal Patel.
Lucknow Super Giants- Mitchell Marsh, Rishabh Pant (captain), Aiden Markram, Nicholas Pooran, Sidharth, Abdul Samad, Mukul Chaudhary, Mohammed Shami, Avesh Khan, Prince, Digvesh Rathi.