Determined to arrest a worrying slide, Sunrisers Hyderabad will likely be desirous to impact a turnaround once they host a power-packed Punjab Kings of their subsequent IPL engagement right here on Saturday. Final season’s finalists, SRH started their 2025 marketing campaign on a thunderous notice, racking up a mammoth 286 to dismantle Rajasthan Royals by 44 runs. With an explosive batting line-up at their disposal, the ‘Orange Military’ appeared poised to turn out to be the primary crew to breach the 300-run mark however their ultra-aggressive strategy has since backfired spectacularly. Of their final three matches, their attack-at-all-costs technique with the bat yielded underwhelming totals of 163, 120, and 152 leading to crushing defeats, and leaving them languishing on the backside of the factors desk. They’ve worst Web-Run-Price of -1.629 as of at the moment. With the bat, Sunrisers Hyderabad want way more from their huge names like Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Ishan Kishan, and Heinrich Klaasen. Head and Sharma, who performed an important position in delivering explosive begins final season, have failed to search out their rhythm this yr. The truth is, SRH’s greatest opening stand up to now is a paltry 15 Head’s efficiency has tailed off dramatically, returning scores of 67, 47, 22, 4, and eight. Abhishek, too, has struggled for consistency, with a high rating of simply 24 throughout 5 innings.
Regardless of the presence of seasoned campaigners like Pat Cummins, Mohammed Shami, and Harshal Patel, SRH have struggled to make early inroads. The struggles proceed into the center overs, the place they’ve did not construct stress or declare key breakthroughs.
In stark distinction, Punjab Kings are driving a wave of early season momentum underneath the recent management of Shreyas Iyer.
Groups
Sunrisers Hyderabad: Pat Cummins (c), Ishan Kishan (wk), Atharva Taide, Abhinav Manohar, Aniket Verma, Sachin Child, Heinrich Klaasen, Travis Head, Harshal Patel, Kamindu Mendis, Wiaan Mulder, Abhishek Sharma, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Mohammed Shami, Rahul Chahar, Adam Zampa, Simarjeet Singh, Zeeshan Ansari, Jaydev Unadkat and Eshan Malinga.
Punjab Kings: Shreyas Iyer (c), Yuzvendra Chahal, Arshdeep Singh, Marcus Stoinis, Nehal Wadhera, Glenn Maxwell, Vyshak Vijaykumar, Yash Thakur, Harpreet Brar, Vishnu Vinod, Marco Jansen, Lockie Ferguson, Josh Inglis, Xavier Bartlett, Kuldeep Sen, Pyla Avinash, Suryansh Shedge, Musheer Khan, Harnoor Pannu, Aaron Hardie, Priyansh Arya, Azmatullah Omarzai.
