IPL: Sunrisers Hyderabad To Face Gujarat Titans In Hyderabad Today
In IPL T20 Cricket, Sunrisers Hyderabad will face Gujarat Titans in Hyderabad this evening. The match is scheduled to begin at 7:30 PM at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium.
Gujarat, with two wins from three matches, stands third in the points table, while Hyderabad, with just one win from four matches is at the bottom of the table and desperate to halt a three-match losing streak.
Rajasthan Royals defeated Punjab Kings by fifty runs at the Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium in Chandigarh last night.
In another match earlier yesterday, Delhi Capitals defeated Chennai Super Kings by twenty-five runs at the M. A. Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai.
With three successive wins, Delhi Capital are on the top in the Points Table whereas Royal Challengers Bengaluru hold the second position, winning two of their three matches.
Sunrisers Hyderabad have had a tough time replicating last season’s explosiveness that took them all the way to the summit clash. They started big, but have since lost three straight games, two of those on the road. They now return to the comforts of home, but face an opponent that’s taken a leaf out of their book.
Skipper Shubman Gill, fellow opener Sai Sudharsan and Jos Buttler make up Titans’ top-order that has collectively posted a total of 437 runs in the three outings of IPL 2025 – second only behind LSG’s 482. However, SRH’s trio of Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma and Ishan Kishan have scored only 284 in four games thus far. Take out the new recruit’s century from this, and it paints a worrisome picture of the batting woes last year’s runners-up are facing.
SRH’s bowling frailities have also been exposed. They have been the worst bowling unit this season, ranked 10th in terms of economy rate (10.83) and average (41.15). In their most recent defeat, on a surface where the ball was stopping and gripping, the SRH bowlers failed to make the most of the conditions and allowed KKR to run away to an above-par score of 200, of which they conceded 78 in the slog-overs alone. SRH’s death-overs economy of 15.04 is the worst among 10 teams in the competition, and more often than not putting excess pressure on an already misfiring batting unit.
In that respect, the Titans are only marginally better with the last-five overs ER of 12.73. But their formidable batting has papered over those cracks, for now at least. Even in the 11-run loss against PBKS in their tournament opener, Titans ran them very close in a massive chase of 244. The turnaround since then has seen them stack up 196 and successfuly defend it against Mumbai Indians in Ahmedabad, followed by a much more convincing eight-wicket win against RCB in Bengaluru while chasing 170. In batting-friendly climes of Hyderabad, this could well be the differentiator on Sunday.
