8 football teams and their IPL equivalents

#8 Atletico Madrid – Sunrisers Hyderabad

Atletico Madrid and Sunrisers employ a very similar philosophy

This is a comparison between two extremely robust teams known for a very specific skill set. Atletico Madrid are the third best team in Spain behind Real Madrid and Barcelona and are famous for breaking the Madrid-Barca duopoly despite functioning with smaller financial reserves. They even won the league with a well-oiled team and reached the finals of the Champions League twice.

Sunrisers Hyderabad are run by sound owners and have a specific team composition with a proper strategy and they beat the heavyweights in the league last season to win the IPL. The team is built around a strong bowling unit that can defend any total and are very tough to beat at home.

Atletico Madrid are similar in terms of having one of the best defences in Europe and are also very difficult to beat at home.

David Warner leads Sunrisers Hyderabad from the front

Another similarity is that just like Atletico are led by a superstar forward in Antoine Griezmann who is the main man for scoring goals, Sunrisers Hyderabad are led by swashbuckling Australian opener, David Warner, who scores the bulk of the runs for the team and leads from the front.