IPL: 3 active players to play for both SRH and DC in league history

Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) will be taking on Delhi Capitals (DC) in the 35th match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024. The match is set to take place on the 20th of April 2024 at 7:30 PM (IST) at Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi. It will be the first match of the season to be hosted at the venue. Both teams have some of the best players in their lineup. The home side has the top order which has some great batters like Prithvi Shaw, David Warner, Mitchell Marsh, and Jake Fraser-McGurk. 

In the middle order, DC has options like Shai Hope, Rishabh Pant, Tristan Stubbs, Abhishek Porel, Yash Dhull, and many others. In the All-rounders department, they have the likes of Axar Patel, Lalit Yadav, Sumit Kumar, and others. The 2020 runner-ups have some good bowlers like Anrich Nortje, Khaleel Ahmed, Ishant Sharma, Mukesh Kumar, Kuldeep Yadav, and others in their lineup. In the last 2 matches, these players have stepped up and helped the side to return to winning ways. 

SRH has great players too. At the top, they have the likes of Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Mayank Agarwal, Rahul Tripathi, and Aiden Markram. In the middle order, they have some destructive batters like Heinrich Klaasen, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Abdul Samad, and Glenn Phillips. SRH has some good All-rounders like Shahbaz Ahmed, and Marco Jansen, and some part-timers too. Their bowling unit has some good names like T Natarajan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mayank Markande, Jaydev Unadkat, and Pat Cummins. 

Here are three active players who have played for both SRH and DC in the history of the league:

Mustafizur Rahman

Mustafizur Rahman was great for SRH in his debut season. The left-arm pacer was the emerging player of the season and helped SRH to win the title with his brilliant bowling. Along with Bhuvneshwar Kumar, he formed a great bowling duo, especially at the death. In total, the Bangladesh pacer played 17 matches for the Orange Army and claimed as many wickets. He averaged 26.76 with the ball and had an economy of 7.15 with best match figure of 3/16. 

Rahman was a part of DC in the last few seasons. The star pacer played 10 matches for the 2020 finalists. In as many innings, Rahman claimed 9 wickets at a bowling average of 35.89, at a bowling strike rate of 26.00, at an economy of 8.28. His best match figure for DC was 3/18. He happens to be one of those players who played for both DC and SRH but is representing neither of them in the ongoing season. Mustafizur was picked by CSK in the IPL auction 2024.