Tonight’s IPL contest at the Wankhede Stadium is not between two teams that own bragging rights on the points tally. Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) are in the middle with 12 points while bottom-placed Mumbai Indians are well and truly playing a dead rubber at home. Yet, former Mumbai Indians pacer and current Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) bowling coach James Franklin termed tonight’s contest as, “the best going against the best.”

What Franklin meant was in-form Sunrisers opener Travis Head and MI’s pace ace Jasprit Bumrah. “Those are the sort of contests that not only your team or your coaching staff, but people around the world, journalists, media, want to watch because it is the best going against the best,” Franklin said in reply to mid-day’s question about what he thought of the two cricket stars locking horns.