IPL 2025: Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Rajasthan Royals Match Preview, IPL 2025

2nd T20 • Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium • Hyderabad

Sunrisers Hyderabad

286/6 (20)

Rajasthan Royals

242/6 (20)

SRH won by 44 runs

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Scorecard

Stats

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Table

Date & Time

23 Mar, 03:30 PM IST

Venue

Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad

TV/Streaming

JioHotstar, Star Sports Network

Match

2nd T20,

Indian T20 League 2025

Points Table

Schedule

Stats

Umpires

Adrian Holdstock (South Africa), Akshay Totre (India), Rohan Pandit (India, TV)

Referee

Shakti Singh (India)

Toss

Rajasthan Royals elected to bowl

Pitch Report

Pitch Report with Pommie Mbangwa and Michael Clarke: It's runs galore. Dimensions are 63m leg-side, 70m on the other side. There's a pocket which is 77m. 205 is the average score on this track. It's a batting paradise, another belter and has been for a long period of time. Both ends looks dry, there's a tiny bit of grass in the middle of the wicket. It's probably going to be a two paced. If you bat first, you should be looking to go past 200. The pitch isn't going to deteriorate. Bowlers should think about taking the pace off more often.

1st Innings

167Avg Runs

6Avg Wkts

140.21Avg SR

2nd Innings

153Avg Runs

5Avg Wkts

140.11Avg SR

Weather Update

Playing XILineups Out

Points Table

Head To Head (Last 10 Matches)

SRH

6- 4

Team Form (Recent 5 Matches, Latest First)

Sunrisers Hyderabad

Rajasthan Royals

Players to Watch

Top Batters

Ishan Kishan

SRH . WK

106 Runs

1 Match

Dhruv Jurel

RR . WK

70 Runs

1 Match

Travis Head

SRH . BAT

67 Runs

1 Match

Top Bowlers

Tushar Deshpande

RR . BOWL

3 Wkts

1 Match

Harshal Patel

SRH . BOWL

2 Wkts

1 Match

Simarjeet Singh

SRH . BOWL

2 Wkts

1 Match

Playing XILineups Out

Fantasy Top Picks

Expert Team 1

T Head

S Samson

Expert Team 2

A Sharma

Y Jaiswal

Venue Details

Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad

1st Innings

167Avg Runs

6Avg Wkts

140.21Avg SR

2nd Innings

153Avg Runs

5Avg Wkts

140.11Avg SR

Toss winners opt to

38%Bat First Bowl First63%

Team Batting First

46%Wins Losses54%

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RR 242/6 (20)

SRH won by 44 runs

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SRH 215/6 (19.1)

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Match 57 • May 8 • Indian Premier League

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LSG 165/4 (20)

SRH won by 10 wickets

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Match 50 • May 2 • Indian Premier League

SRH 201/3 (20)

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SRH won by 1 run

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Match 41 • Apr 25 • Indian Premier League

SRH 171/8 (20)

RCB 206/7 (20)

RCB won by 35 runs

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Match 18 • Apr 5 • Indian Premier League

SRH 166/4 (18.1)

CSK 165/5 (20)

SRH won by 6 wickets

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Match 8 • Mar 27 • Indian Premier League

SRH 277/3 (20)

MI 246/5 (20)

SRH won by 31 runs

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Match 65 • May 18 • Indian Premier League

SRH 186/5 (20)

RCB 187/2 (19.2)

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Match 58 • May 13 • Indian Premier League

SRH 182/6 (20)

LSG 185/3 (19.2)

LSG won by 7 wickets

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Match 47 • May 4 • Indian Premier League

SRH 166/8 (20)

KKR 171/9 (20)

KKR won by 5 runs

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Team Form (Last 5 Matches, Most recent first)

Team Form (Last 5 Matches)

Sunrisers Hyderabad

Rajasthan Royals

Head To Head (Last 10 Matches)

SRH

6- 4

Team Comparison (Last 10 Matches)

Matches Played

Matches Won

179

Average Score

184

286/6

Highest Score

242/6

113/10

Lowest Score

139/7

Player of the Match Ishan Kishan

106(47)

Lucky Winner Lukumoni Das

SRH

Info

Sunrisers Hyderabad

286/6 (20)

Batters

Abhishek Sharma

218.18

c Y Jaiswal b M Theekshana

Travis Head

216.13

c S Hetmyer b TU Deshpande

Ishan Kishan

106

225.53

Not out

Nitish Kumar Reddy

200.00

c Y Jaiswal b M Theekshana

Heinrich Klaasen

242.86

c R Parag b S Sharma

Aniket Verma

233.33

c J Archer b TU Deshpande

Abhinav Manohar

0.00

c R Parag b TU Deshpande

Pat Cummins

(C)

0.00

Not out

Extras

(B: 4, LB: 1, NB: 3, W: 10)

TOTAL

(20 Ov, RR: 14.3)

286/6

Did not Bat

Simarjeet Singh, Harshal Patel, Mohammad Shami, Adam Zampa

Bowlers

EXT

16.33

13.00

19.00

12.75

9.00

11.00

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Abhishek Sharma

c Y Jaiswal b M Theekshana

1-45

3.1

Travis Head

c S Hetmyer b TU Deshpande

2-130

9.3

Nitish Kumar Reddy

c Y Jaiswal b M Theekshana

3-202

14.2

Heinrich Klaasen

c R Parag b S Sharma

4-258

18.2

Aniket Verma

c J Archer b TU Deshpande

5-279

19.2

Abhinav Manohar

c R Parag b TU Deshpande

6-279

19.3

Rajasthan Royals

242/6 (20)

Batters

Yashasvi Jaiswal

20.00

c Abhinav Manohar b S Singh

Sanju Samson

178.38

c H Klaasen b H Patel

Riyan Parag

(C)

200.00

c P Cummins b S Singh

Nitish Rana

137.50

c P Cummins b M Shami

Dhruv Jurel

200.00

c I Kishan b A Zampa

Shimron Hetmyer

182.61

c Abhinav Manohar b H Patel

Shubham Dubey

309.09

Not out

Jofra Archer *

100.00

Not out

Extras

(B: 4, LB: 0, NB: 2, W: 7)

TOTAL

(20 Ov, RR: 12.1)

242/6

Did not Bat

Maheesh Theekshana, Tushar Deshpande, Sandeep Sharma

Bowlers

EXT

11.00

15.33

15.00

8.50

12.00

8.50

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Yashasvi Jaiswal

c Abhinav Manohar b S Singh

1-20

1.3

Riyan Parag

c P Cummins b S Singh

2-24

1.5

Nitish Rana

c P Cummins b M Shami

3-50

4.1

Sanju Samson

c H Klaasen b H Patel

4-161

13.6

Dhruv Jurel

c I Kishan b A Zampa

5-161

14.2

Shimron Hetmyer

c Abhinav Manohar b H Patel

6-241

19.5

Match Info

Date & Time

23 Mar, 03:30 PM IST

Venue

Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad

TV/Streaming

JioHotstar, Star Sports Network

Match

2nd T20,

Indian T20 League 2025

Points Table

Schedule

Stats

Umpires

Adrian Holdstock (South Africa), Akshay Totre (India), Rohan Pandit (India, TV)

Referee

Shakti Singh (India)

Toss

Rajasthan Royals elected to bowl

6 1 2 1 6 6

Over 17

Runs: 22

0 4 1wd 6 1 6 4

Over 18

Runs: 22

0 1 2nb 2 1wd 6 2 1

Over 19

Runs: 15

0 1 1 1wd 6 W 1

Over 20

Runs: 10

All Overs

Player of the Match Ishan Kishan

106(47)

Lucky Winner Lukumoni Das

Commentary

7:51 pm local time (7:51 pm IST): So, that is all we have from Hyderabad from now! You can switch over to all the action taking place in Chennai right now, by clicking on this link. This is the pair of Pradeep and Bidipto taking your leave. Keep following Sportskeeda!

Ishan Kishan (Player of the Match, 106* off 47 balls): The nervousness was there! But the captain and the coach gave me the freedom to express myself. That always helps. I've had a lot of time in between, so I've worked hard on my game. This is the kind of surface that you want to carry with you everywhere! But the kind of start Abhishek and Travis gives is always helpful for the middle-order. Pat Cummins knows what to bring out of the rest of the team and so, lets players like me go about my work in the best way possible.

Pat Cummins [Sunrisers Hyderabad captain]: I wouldn't want to be bowling to our boys! It's quite scary how easily they score 280! You're going to go for runs here, but when you have such a big score, a quiet over here and there changes the game. Ishan Kishan today was incredible. We've had the core group in place, obviously lost a couple of players, but I think the preparation has been amazing! The coaching staff has been here for a few weeks now and worked a lot with us.

Green Dot Balls of the Match award goes to Tushar Deshpande!

Ishan Kishan wins the On-The-Go Fours of the Match award!

Ishan Kishan wins the Super Sixes of the Match award!

Ishan Kishan is the Fantasy King of the Match!

Shubham Dubey is the Super Striker of the Match!

7:44 pm local time (7:44 pm IST): It's time now for the post-match presentation!

Harshal Patel [Sunrisers Hyderabad]: Pretty happy with it, I felt we were better with the execution barring a few overs. Whatever we've planned in the meeting, we were able to execute on the field with 280 plus on the board. The coaches don't believe in too much talking, the initial chat was on how we can be defensive and how we can compliment our batting line-up. There's a fine line to be honest, it all depends on the context of the game. Will need to bowl more conventionally, whenever you put 270 on the board, you got to be defensive and let the opposition to more work. I don't remember any ground being easy in the IPL. The wickets are flat, grounds are small, the mindsets of the batters have changed significantly, you have to be on top of your execution as a bowler.

Riyan Parag [Rajasthan Royals captain]: It was tough, just like I expected. Credit to SRH the way they batted, but we could've executed our plans better but we need to go back to drawing board and see what can be made better. Collectively we took the decision, it was the right decision, we didn't execute the plans the way we wanted to. We could've restricted them a little lesser, 220 or 240 would've been a good score to chase. Some of the batters looked great, Sanju, Jurel batted well. Lot of key positives to take from this game. Whether it's a win or loss, you need to take learnings and move on.

7:30 pm local time (7:30 pm IST): Sunrisers Hyderabad win by 44 runs!

Ishan Kishan 106* (47) | Harshal Patel - 2/34 (4)
Dhruv Jurel 70 (35) | Tushar Deshpande - 3/44 (4)

A run chase of over 285 runs is always going to be tough for any team, no matter how good the wicket is. It did stay like that, but Rajasthan Royals gave a good account of themselves with the bat.

Scoring over 240 runs in 20 overs with 6 wickets lost is a pretty decent effort. So, from the batting side of things, the team in pink can take a lot of heart from this performance in the second innings. Had they restricted the first innings score to under 220, it could have been a different story altogether.

The batting line-up required one big hundred in there, but that did not come. But there were some good contributions along the way. Shubham Dubey's 11-ball unbeaten 34 was special! Dhruv Jurel's classy batting was eye-catching too! Of course, Sanju Samson found himself among the runs, once again, to begin an IPL season for the Royals.

Harshal Patel was the only bowler to go at less than 9 RPO and take a couple of wickets. But the rest went the journey. Catching on the whole was average from Sunrisers Hyderabad. However, the captaincy from Pat Cummins was quite calming on his players. He did not drift too much and kept things as simple as he could.

On the whole, it was the first innings batting effort from SRH that stole the show and took the game away from RR. But it does seem as though the pitch in Hyderabad will remain a batting beauty, all be it that the ball may turn more than expected, along the way!

overs

242 /6 score

1wd

runs

Jofra Archer *

1 (1)

Shubham Dubey

34 (11)

Harshal Patel

2 /34

19.6 Harshal Patel to Jofra Archer, SRH KICK OFF THEIR CAMPAIGN WITH A WIN! SRH bowlers did held their nerve in the end, it's an emphatic nevertheless. Dips a full delivery on the stumps, Archer drilled it towards long-on for a single.

Jofra Archer batting at 8th position

Ishan Kishan is seen lying near the boundary with an ice pack on his left knee. That might be concerning for SRH.

Shimron Hetmyer has been dismissed for 42 runs off 23 balls

19.5 Harshal Patel to Shimron Hetmyer, OUT! MILES UP IN THE AIR AND TAKEN! Manohar holds on to it. Short outside the off-stump, Hetmyer goes for the pull and top edged it straight up. Manohar runs in from long-off and pouches it safely.

That is a shot of high quality!

19.4 Harshal Patel to Shimron Hetmyer, SIX! BANG! Short outside the off-stump, Hetmyer swatted it powerfully, straight down the ground for a maximum.