SRH vs RR Highlights, IPL 2025: Ishan Kishan hundred, Head carnage helps Sunrisers win by 44 runs against Royals
SRH vs RR Highlights, IPL 2025: Ishan Kishan hundred, Head carnage helps Sunrisers win by 44 runs against Royals
Harshal to finish his spell and the game. Slower short ball, Hetmyer misses his pull. Dropped!! Another attempted pull goes straight up in the air but Cummins puts it down at extra cover. Six!! Slower ball short of a length, flat batted straight down the ground for six! WICKET!! Short ball on offstump, the attempted pull short goes straight up and Abhinav Manohar completes a comfortable catch at mid off.
Hetmyer c Abhinav Manohar b Harshal Patel 42(23)
A yorker to finish the innings as Archer hits it to long on for a single. SRH wins its opening IPL 2025 encounter by 44 runs.
Cummins with the penultimate over. Starts off with a wide but SRH manages to overturn the call with a review. Hetmyer carves one over short third, falls just short of the fielder in the deep. Kishan receiving some attention to his knee outside the boundary. Cummins oversteps. Free hit for Hetmyer. Just a double. Six!! Hetmyer launches a full ball in to the stands for six! Cummins ends his spell conceding 60 runs.
Zampa with his last over. Four!! Hetmyer smacks a full ball straight down the ground for a boundary. Six!! Full on the stumps, lofted over midwicket for a huge six by Hetmyer! Miscues his next attempt, will get a single to long on. Six!! Shubham joins the fun with the lofted shot over long off. RR ensuring the margin of victory isn’t too high. Four!! Finishes the over with a sweep shot through square leg.
Cummins with his third over. Six!! Short ball, Shubham pulls it over deep midwicket for a huge six. Hetmyer smacks a full ball straight down the ground, will pick up a couple. Six!! Full and wide outside off, lofted over cover for a six. Was an on-pace delivery and Shubham didn’t need to finish his bat swing to get it over the fence. Six!! In the slot, lofted straight down the ground for the third six of the over.
Harshal with his third. Yorker outside off, blunted to mid off. Short ball angled into Dubey, pulled to deep square for one. Four runs from the over. Golddust!
WICKET!! Jurel looks to take on Zampa with a slog sweep. Hits it straight to the fielder in the deep.
Dhruv Jurel c Ishan Kishan b Zampa 70(35)
Shubham Dubey and Shimron Hetmyer have a mountain to climb to take their side anywhere close. Six!! Hetmyer brings out the slog sweep and deposits Zampa’s full ball in the stands.
Harshal Patel with his second over. Just two runs from the first two balls. Full and wide, carved to deep cover for a single. Six!! Slower ball outside off, Samsoin lofts it over extra cover for six. WICKET! Samson’s sojourn comes to an end. Slower short ball, he looks to pull but the balls goes straight up and Klaasen completes an easy catch. End of a 111-run partnership.
Samson c Klaasen b Harshal Patel 66(37)
Simarjeet returns for his third. Slower ball wide outside off, Jurel hits it to cover for a single. No ball signalled. Six!! Full and wide again, lofted over wide long off for a six! Six!! Back of a length outside off, guided past short third and the pace ensures is crosses the boundary. Six!! Full ball on the stumps, nonchalantly lofted down the ground for six more. Four!! Slower ball wide outside off, carved over cover for a boundary.
Cummins with his second. Jurel tries to guide one square on the offside, hits it straight at the fielder. Full outside off, guided to deep cover for a single. Dropped! Shami can’t hold on to a catch at short file leg. Back of a length slower ball, Samson looked to swivel pull but hit it close to the fielder. A single taken. Three runs from the over.
Zampa with his second over. A brilliant effort at point prevents a certain boundary after Jurel cuts hard. Zampa concedes just four runs in the over.
Harshal Patel into the attack. Jurel goes after him too. Tonked over long on for a six. Sanju Samson takes a single to long on to get to his fifty.
Dhruv Jurel goes inside out against Abhishek Sharma. Glorious six over extra cover. Down the leg side and flicked over short fine leg for a four by Jurel.
SRH brings in Adam Zampa as an Impact Sub. Full and smoked straight back for a six by Sanju Samson. Full again. This time it is just a four for Samson.
Abhishek Sharma gets a crack. He spins one past Samson’s outside edge and Klaasen flicks the bails off and appeals for a stumping. Samson makes it back, just. A misfield at long on gifts Jurel a four.
Pat Cummins into the attack and Jurel welcomes with a massive six over long on. Follows it up with clip off his pad. FOUR MORE!! A straight drive now. Another four. Short from Cummins. Pulled away for a four by Jurel.
Nitish Rana’s first innings as Royals batter ends early. Top edges Shami. Cummins gets the catch again.
Nitish Rana c Cummins b Mohammed Shami 11 (8b 2×4 0x6)
RR 57/3 in 5 overs
Simarjeet Singh continues in his express ways. Gets two dot balls out of Samson, before being pulled over mid wicket for a four. Short and wide and Samson guides Simarjeet over deep third for a six. Width again. Sliced for another four.
Shami continues. Play and miss from Rana to start with. Outswinger from Shami now. Rana edges it and it flies past first slip for a four. Nitish knocks one over mid on for another four.
Riyan Parag gets a boundary off his first ball. He tries for another one next ball. Top edged and gobbled up by Pat Cummins at mid on.
Riyan Parag c Cummins b Simarjeet Singh 4 (2b 1×4 0x6)
RR 25/2 in 2 overs
Simarjeet Singh from the other end. Bouncer. Screams past Jaiswal and Klaasen. Four byes.
Short and wide now. Jaiswal slashes at it. Manohar leaps high to complete a brilliant diving catch.
Yashasvi Jaiswal c Manohar b Simarjeet Singh 1 (5b 0x4 0x6)
Shami with the first over for SRH. Swing and miss from Jaiswal to start with. He gets off the mark with a drive to deep cover. Short from Shami and Samson pulls it away for a six. Length and Samson thumps it through covers for a four. Another thumping cover drive, another four.
Aniket Verma in at 6. Six!! Smacks his second ball over the legside for six! WICKET!! Looks to go big again, this time hits it down the throat of Archer at the deep.
Aniket Verma c Jofra Archer b Tushar Deshpande 7(3)
Abhinav Manohar in at 7. Slogs at one first ball, doesn’t get the distance and hits it to long on. He’s out for a first-ball duck.
c Riyan Parag b Tushar Deshpande 0(1)
Cummins in at 8. Manages to scamper across for a leg bye. Kishan miscues a hit, falls just short of the fielder running in from deep cover. A couple taken. Four!! Full and wide, Kishan guides it past short third man and will pick up four more.
Sunrisers Hyderabad end up with the second-highest IPL total ever.
WICKET!! Klaasen looks to loft Sandeep down the ground, hits it sraight to Parag at long on.
Klaasen c Riyan Parag b Sandeep Sharma 34(14)
Six!! Low full toss on the stumps, Kishan lofts it over deep midwicket for six! Six!! Short ball on the body, pulled behind square for six more. Hundred for Ishan! Thumps a full ball down the ground for a double to complete his hundred!
SRH 273/4 in 19 overs
Archer with his final over. A beamer on off stump, evades the batter and the keeper and runs away for a boundary. 5 runs and a free hit. Kishan slams the free hit ball straight to long off. Four!! Slower ball outside off, Klaasen slams it through covers for a boundary. Four! Yorker outside off, Klaasen edges it past short third for four more. Four!! Klaasen lofts another one through the offside, beats the despairing dive of the long on fielder. Four!! Slower ball outside off to Kishan, cuts it past backward point for four more. Archer ends with 75 runs in his four overs. — the most expensive spell in IPL history.
Sandeep Sharma back into the attack. Wide outside off, Klaasen can only slap it to deep cover for one. Klaasen hits one more to deep cover, picks up a double this time. Appeals for lbw against Klaasen. RR opt not to review after the umpire says no. Six!! Short of a length outside off, picked up and deposited over deep midwicket for six. Four!! Full and wide now, lofted square over the fielders in the ring, for four.
Deshpande continues. Four!! Ishan mistimes his drive on a low full toss, but the ball lobs over Parag at mid off and runs away to the boundary. Outside edge again as Ishan looks to go big downtown, falls safely in between short third and backward point. Four!! Klaasen gets an outside edge as well, runs away past short third for four more.
Theekshana to bowl out. Wide outside off, Nitish looks to smack it down the ground but misses. Four!! Wide again, takes Nitish’s edge as he looks to go big, runs away past short third for a boundary. WICKET!! Fired in on the stumps, Nitish whips it with his bottom hand but finds Jaiswal at deep midwicket.
Nitish Reddy c Jaiswal b Theekshana 30(15)
Klaasen in at 5. Four!! Kishan brings out the reverse sweep and gets it past short third for a boundary.
SRH 208/3 in 15 overs
Farooqi back into the attack. Third over for him. Six!! Fulltoss on offstump, goes down and lofts it over backward square for six more! Six!! Short of a length slower ball, Nitish pulls it over square leg for six. Four!! Full toss on the stumps, whipped past the fielder at deep midwicket for four more.
Six!! Ishan looks to move across and loft Archer behind square on the legside, the top edge flies over the boundary for six. Six!! Fifty for Ishan! Full outside off, lofted over covers for a second consecutive six. Six!! Third six of the over. Moves legside and lofts a full ball over cover once again. 22 runs from the over.
Tushar in for his second. Just three runs from the first two balls of the over. Chance!! Nitish completely miscues an attempted hook. Soars up high in the air but deep midwicket fails to judge the flight. Falls well in front of him. Ishan flatbats a slower short ball down the ground but Hetmyer keeps it to two. Three wides in a row from Deshpande, but he manages to overturn the last one with a review.
Archer back for his second over. Chance!! Parag dives to the front but can’t reach a miscued drive from Nitish at mid off. Another chance! Ishan tries to guide a short ball through third man, falls just short of the fielder. Four!! Short and wide, carved over cover for a boundary by Nitish. Four!! Slower short ball, Nitish waits and pulls past short midwicket for a boundary. 12 from the over.
Tushar Deshpande with his first over in Royals colours. Starts with a wide. Short from Deshpande and Head somehow flat bats it straight down the ground for a four.
Full and wide from Deshpande and Head cracks it straight to mid off.
Travis Head c Hetmyer b Deshpande 67 (31b 9×4 3×6)
SRH 135/2 in 10 overs
Slow bouncer from Sandeep. Head lobs it up. But, it lands between the keeper and the bowler. Sandeep tries another slow bouncer. This time Head slaps it over extra cover for a four.
Head gets an easy single, to long off, against Nitish Rana and that brings up his fifty. He celebrates by slamming another four through covers. Just nine runs off the over though.
Sandeep Sharma with the ball. Back of a length and slogged away for a four by Kishan. Hetmyer makes a good diving stop at long on to prevent a four. Sandeep goes for the hard length again. Kishan slashes it for another four.
Theekshana gives away another four. This time due to a misfield by Jaiswal at cover. Kishan gets one more through covers. FOUR MORE!! Theekshana just about manages to keep it down for the rest of the over. Oh wait. Theekshana over steps. No ball and it is a free hit for Head. Full toss and clubbed away for a four.
Jofra Archer into the attack and he is clicked away for a four down the leg side by Head. He goes one better next ball. DEEP INTO THE STANDS!!! Slogged away for a six. Archer goes around the wicket and Head creams him through covers for another four. Archer drags the length back. But it is off no effect. Head lofts him over extra cover for a four. CARNAGE!!
Not the greatest delivery from Theekshana. Wide and short. But Abhishek slices it straight to Jaiswal at cover point.
Abhishek Sharma c Jaiswal b Theekshana 24 (11b 5×4 0x6)
Ishan Kishan gets off the mark with an edged four past third man. He gets one more with a slam down the ground.
SRH 55/1 in 4 overs
Short from Farooqi and Abhishek deflects it over backward point for a four. Fuller from the left-arm pacer. Too easy for Abhishek as he drives it on the up. FOUR MORE!! Back of a length now and Abhishek slams it away for another four. Farooqi gets away with a couple of low full tosses. Full and wide for last ball. Head carves it over point for another four. RELENTLESS HITTING!!
Theekshana early for Royals. He over steps first ball and gives away a free hit. Gets away with a widish delivery. Just two runs. Theekshana offers width and Head slashes him through covers for a four. Head now dances down the track before depositing one straight down the ground for a six.
Farooqi with the first over of the season for Rajasthan Royals. Abhishek Sharma on strike for SRH. Fiery yorker for the second ball. Abhishek just manages to squeeze it away. Low full toss now. Clipped away for a four. Now Abhishek jumps out of the crease before slicing it past cover for another four.
Rajasthan Royals: Sanju Samson, Kunal Singh Rathore, Akash Madhwal, Kumar Kartikeya, Kwena Maphaka
Sunrisers Hyderabad: Sachin Baby, Jaydev Unadkat, Zeeshan Ansari, Adam Zampa, Wiaan Mulder
It is great to be back. The core of the group is the same, the coaching staff is the same. Don’t think batting or bowling first matters. It is pretty hot, so don’t mind bowling second. Would be nice to keep last season’s form going. We always encourage our games to play with freedom. Abhi and Heady with hopefully continue from last year, and Nitish and Klassen are there as well. Ishan Kishan and Abhinav Manohar will be making their debuts.
SRH: Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Ishan Kishan, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Heinrich Klaasen(WK), Aniket Verma, Abhinav Manohar, Pat Cummins(C), Simarjeet Singh, Harshal Patel, Mohammed Shami
RR: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubham Dubey, Nitish Rana, Riyan Parag(C), Dhruv Jurel(WK), Shimron Hetmyer, Jofra Archer, Maheesh Theekshana, Tushar Deshpande, Sandeep Sharma, Fazalhaq Farooqi
RR wins the toss and opts to bowl first. Riyan Parag wins his first toss as IPL captain.
“Came here at 17 years old. Really excited,’ he says. Hetmyer, Archer, Theekshana and Farooqi to be RR’s overseas players.
Aniket Verma to play his first IPL game today.
Batting 1st: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sanju Samson, Nitish Rana, Riyan Parag, Dhruv Jurel, Shimron Hetmyer, Shubham Dubey, Wanindu Hasaranga, Jofra Archer, Tushar Deshpande, Fazalhaq Farooqi
Bowling 1st: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Nitish Rana, Riyan Parag, Dhruv Jurel, Shimron Hetmyer, Shubham Dubey, Wanindu Hasaranga, Jofra Archer, Tushar Deshpande, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Sandeep Sharma
Impact Player options: Sanju Samson/ Sandeep Sharma, Maheesh Theekshana, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Kwena Maphaka, Akash Madhwal
Batting 1st: Abhishek Sharma, Travis Head, Ishan Kishan, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Heinrich Klaasen, Abhinav Manohar, Wiaan Mulder, Pat Cummins, Harshal Patel, Mohammed Shami, Rahul Chahar
Bowling 1st: Abhishek Sharma, Travis Head, Ishan Kishan, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Heinrich Klaasen, Wiaan Mulder, Pat Cummins, Harshal Patel, Mohammed Shami, Rahul Chahar, Jaydev Unadkat
Impact Player options: Simarjeet Singh, Jaydev Unadkat/ Abhinav Manohar, Sachin Baby, Atharva Taide, Adam Zampa
SRH: Pat Cummins (c), Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Heinrich Klassen, Nitish Reddy, Ishan Kishan, Mohammad Shami, Harshal Patel, Rahul Chahar, Adam Zampa, Atharva Taide, Abhinav Manohar, Simarjeet Singh, Zeeshan Ansari, Jaydev Unadkat, Kamindu Mendis, Aniket Verma, Eshan Malinga, Sachin Baby, Wiaan Mulder.
RR: Sanju Samson (c), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Riyan Parag, Dhruv Jurel, Shimron Hetmyer, Sandeep Sharma, Jofra Archer, Wainindu Hasaranga, Maheesh Theekshana, Akash Madhwal, Kumar Kartikeya Singh, Nitish Rana, Tushar Deshpande, Shubham Dubey, Yudhvir Charak, Fazal Farooqi, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Kwena Maphaka, Kunal Rathore, Ashok Sharma.
The swashbuckling Sunrisers Hyderabad, last year’s runner-up, begins its quest to go one step further when it hosts Rajasthan Royals in its Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 season opener at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad on Sunday.
Last year, the home side banked on its batting strengths to shock and awe its opponents. SRH surpassed the 250-run mark thrice, while the pair of Abhishek Sharma and Travis Head set an IPL PowerPlay record (125 vs Delhi Capitals). That strategy is set to continue following the addition of the explosive Ishan Kishan to a formidable lineup of Head, Abhishek, Nitish Kumar Reddy, and Heinrich Klaasen.
A revamped bowling unit, though, will be the one to watch. Mohammed Shami and Harshal Patel link up with Pat Cummins in the pace department, while the services of Rahul Chahar and Adam Zampa have been sought for spin. With Jos Buttler gone, the Royals will bank on Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sanju Samson, and Riyan Parag’s pace penchant (the trio has a combined strike rate of 159.16 vs quicks last season) to match SRH’s pyrotechnics.
– Anirudh Velamuri
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Which TV channel will broadcast Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Rajasthan Royals IPL 2025 match on March 23?
The Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Rajasthan Royals IPL 2025 match will be televised on the Star Sports Network in India.
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The Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Rajasthan Royals IPL 2025 match will be streamed live JioHotstar.
Hello and welcome to match number two of IPL 2025 which will see last year’s finalist Sunrisers Hyderabad take on Rajasthan Royals at home. Stay tuned for live scores and updates from the game!
