Picture : IPL / X Heinrich Klassen of SRH
Sunrisers Hyderabad ended their Tata IPl 2025 campaign as they outclassed Kolkata Knight Riders by thumping margin of 110 runs in an ecounter at Arun Jaitley stadium , Delhi.
SRH Skipper Pat Cummins won the toss and opted to at first. And his batters did not let him down. They were all guns blazing from the start. Abhishek Sharma 32 ( 16 balls , 4 fours, 2 sixes) set the ton and Travis Head exploded son after much to the agony of KKR bowlers.
Head was explosive in his knock of 76 ( 40 balls, 6 fours, 6 sixes), Ishan Kishan 29 ( 20 balls, 4 fours, 1 six).
The SRH innings took off with the blistering hundred an unbeaten one too from Heinrich Klassen. It was brute force innings 105 ( 39 balls, 7 fours, 9 sixes), Aniket Verma not out 12 ( 6 balls, 1 four, 1 six ) . SRH reaching a massive 278/3 in their 20 overs .
KKR bowling : Vaibhav Arora 1/33 ( 4 overs), Anrich Nortje 0/59 ( 4 overs), Harshit Rana 0/40 ( 3 overs), Sunil Narine 2/42 ( 4 overs),Varun Chakaravarthy 0/54 ( 3 overs), Andre Russell 0/34 ( 2 overs)
Chasing a stiff target was not easy task for KKR and they found it out soon. SRH Bowlers bowled to their field and did not allow any the KKR batting line-up get away. The scores of KKR batsmen told the story – Quinton de Kock 9, Sunil Narine 31, Ajinkya Rahane 15,Angkrish Raghuvanshi 14 , Rinku Singh 9, Andre Russell 0 . Manish Pandey 37 ( 23 balls, 2 fours, 3 sixes) tried hard but the target was tough with regular loss of wickets.
Ramandeep Singh 13, Harshit Rana swung his bat for 34, Vaibha Arora . Anrich Nortje remained not out 0 as KKR folded up at a elow par show with the bat at 168/10 in 18. 4 overs.
SRH Bowling : Pat Cummins 0/ 25 ( 2 overs), Jaydev Unadkat 3/24 ( 4 overs), Harshal Patel 0/21 ( 2 overs), Eshan Malinga 3/31 ( 3.4 overs), Harsh Dubey 3/34 ( 4 overs), Nitish Reddy 0/6 ( 1 over), Abhishek Sharma 0/25 ( 2 overs)
Match: IPL 2025, 68th Match
Venue: Delhi | Date: May 25, 2025
