#2 Deepak Hooda/Manish Pandey

Sunrisers' team management finally ran out of patience and dropped Manish Pandey for the all-important eliminator against KKR. Pandey has been terribly out of form, scoring just 284 runs in 15 matches at a below-par strike-rate of 115.44 and his inability to score quick runs has cost SRH a couple of matches.
He was replaced by Deepak Hooda. Hooda has been in and out of the playing XI and has scored 84 runs in 8 matches. SRH might continue with Hooda or go back to Pandey in the final but regardless of who plays in the match, CSK will look to target SRH's weak middle order.
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