The diminishing aura round Sunrisers Hyderabad’s batting lineup within the Indian Premier League 2025 was dropped at the fore as soon as once more, this time by Gujarat Titans in a seven-wicket drubbing on the Rajiv Gandhi Worldwide Stadium right here on Sunday.
HIGHLIGHTS | SRH vs GT IPL-2025 SCORECARD
Requested to bat first, SRH — as soon as the league’s ‘unstoppable power’ — was halted at 152 by a Titans assault led by native boy Mohammed Siraj, earlier than Shubman Gill marshalled his troops in a reasonably easy chase.
Participant of the match Siraj hit SRH the place it damage most, eradicating Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma within the PowerPlay, the latter handing the pacer his a hundredth match scalp. Prasidh Krishna, who has been imperiously stingy up to now this season, snuffed out Ishan Kishan within the eighth over to go away SRH in a pool of bother.
The largest indicator of Sunrisers’ crawl in opposition to Titans was the truth that it took the facet 76 balls to convey up the primary six of the innings, the primary time since April 2023 that the franchise had not scored a most within the first 10 overs.
GT didn’t permit an edgy SRH to fluently discover the fence. Determined makes an attempt from Heinrich Klaasen, Aniket Verma and Pat Cummins might solely take SRH to 152, a complete properly below par given its personal lofty requirements.
With SRH bowling arsenal within the sizzling seat, Cummins and Mohammad Shami began sturdy. The latter despatched again the in-form Sai Sudarshan and the previous acquired the explosive Jos Buttler to nick a size supply to Klaasen.
Shubman Gill celebrates his half century in opposition to Sunrisers Hyderabad.
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Shubman Gill celebrates his half century in opposition to Sunrisers Hyderabad.
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Washington Sundar, on his Titans debut, saved the stress on SRH by taking Simarjeet Singh to the cleaners, smashing two fours and as many sixes, together with an attention grabbing flick of the wrist that noticed the ball sail over fine-leg.
Skipper Gill eased himself in, mentioning his half-century to push ahead GT’s pursuit. A second of magic from fielder Aniket to dismiss an on-song Washington perked up the hopes of everybody sporting orange.
Sunrisers’ pleasure, nonetheless, was short-lived, as Sherfane Rutherford, in Gill’s firm, piloted the customer dwelling with 20 balls to spare.