SRH Preparing Plan B, C For Vaibhav Sooryavanshi! Pat Cummins Drops Massive Hint Before IPL 2026 Eliminator

Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) are all set to take on Rajasthan Royals (RR) in the eliminator of the IPL 2026 at the Maharaja Yadavindra Singh Stadium in Mullanpur, New Chandigarh, to determine who will face Gujarat Titans (GT) in the Qualifier 2. The biggest trump card for RR will definitely be their 15-year-old batting sensation in Vaibhav Sooryavanshi. Before the match begins on Wednesday, May 27, SRH captain Pat Cummins might have sounded a subtle warning to the in-form RR opener.

Speaking to Star Sports before the game, Pat Cummins said that they will plan for Vaibhav Sooryavanshi and might have as many as three plans for him, in case one does not work. In the first match of the league stage between the two sides, the 15-year-old opener smashed a century. Cummins said that they will learn from him. “It’s always a balance of, as a bowler, understanding what you do well and how you’re going to bowl to your strengths.

But when there are probably one or two players in every lineup who can take the game away from the opposition, you do spend a little bit longer working on a Plan B or Plan C. So, yeah, we’ll plan for him.

Even though he got a hundred against us last time, I thought there were times when we actually bowled quite well to him and kept him quiet. At other times, he got away from us. So, we’ll learn from that," Cummins said. 'Had A Good Look At Their Players' SRH defeated RR on both occasions that they faced off against each other in the group stage.

Pat Cummins sounded confident, saying that they have had a good look at the RR players, and this might make their players confident. “You’re obviously starting from scratch again, but you do take learnings from previous games. We’ve played them twice. We’ve had a good look at a lot of their players. A lot of our guys can look back at those games where they’ve had success and lean on that heading into the finals.

So, it’s always nice coming up against a team that you’ve had some success against.” Get Latest News Live on Times Now along with Breaking News and Top Headlines from Cricket, IPL 2026, IPL Points Table, and around the Sports.