8 IPL teams and their international equivalents

2. Sunrisers Hyderabad- New Zealand

The common thing that unites these two absolutely brilliant cricketing teams is the fact that they start as the underdogs whenever they take the field and more often than not, they end up taking the opposition by surprise. Both the sides are known for their bowling attacks which boasts of a World-class pace battery and a deadly spin attack. With the likes of Warner, Williamson and Manish Pandey, SRH is easily the IPL’s best fielding side at the moment and NZ is no less. In fact, their fielding unit is almost as good as SRH if not better.

Both the teams have a destructive top-order and a deceptively good middle-order. Fair play is something that unites these two teams on a common front and that’s largely because of their field ethics. SRH probably caused the upset of the decade when they beat a dominant RCB side in the IPL final of 2016, in their own Den. While NZ has no ICC Trophies to their name at the moment, they have caused some major upsets in the past and have proved to be a cause of headache to all the big cricketing nations around the Globe.