Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Rajasthan Royals: Head To Head | IPL 2025

Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Rajasthan Royals: Head To Head

IPL 2025 is just around the corner, starting on March 22nd with the match between defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders and Royal Challengers Bangalore in Kolkata. Match number two of the season promises excitement where Sunrisers Hyderabad, last season’s runners-up, will face Rajasthan Royals on March 23rd in an evening game at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad. This article will discuss the head-to-head records and stats for these two teams, along with a season preview, last season’s performance, and more.

Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Rajasthan Royals: Head-To-Head in IPL

Both teams have played 20 matches against each other, and Sunrisers Hyderabad has a slightly better head-to-head record, winning 11 matches, while Rajasthan Royals has won 9. 

Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Rajasthan Royals: Last Match

The last match played between both teams was in the IPL 2024 playoffs. In Qualifier 2, Sunrisers Hyderabad defeated Rajasthan, securing a spot in the final after years. SRH, batting first, scored 175 runs, losing 9 wickets. Heinrich Klaasen scored a crucial half-century off 34 balls, which helped the team set a winning total. Rahul Tripathi and Travis Head also contributed, scoring 37 runs off 34 balls and 34 runs off 28 balls, respectively. From the Rajasthan side, Trent Boult and Avesh Khan took 3 wickets each, delivering regular blows to the Hyderabad team.

When openers Yashasvi Jaiswal and Tom Kohler-Cadmore came in to chase the target for RR, both started slowly, scoring just 24 runs in the first 4 overs. Somehow, Rajasthan was 65/2 in the eighth over, but after that, the team lost wickets in almost every alternate over, leading to a significant middle-order collapse. The team was at 92 for 6 after 14 overs. From there, it needed 84 runs in the last six overs, which posed a challenging situation with a required run rate of over 9 runs per over. By the end of the 20th over, Rajasthan had scored only 139 runs, losing the match by 36 runs.

Sunrisers Hyderabad in the IPL 2024

Last season, Sunrisers Hyderabad performed well and reached the finals after 8 years; the last time they reached the final was for the IPL 2016 title. The best outcome for SRH was their opening duo, who created a stir in the opponent’s camp. Travis Head scored 567 runs in the 15 matches played, while Abhishek Sharma also played multiple explosive knocks, scoring 484 runs in 16 matches. The team finished number 3 in the group stage, winning 8 out of the 14 matches played. 

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Rajasthan Royals in the IPL 2024

Rajasthan Royals also performed well in the last season, winning 8 out of the 14 matches played in the group stage, and finished in third position. In the eliminator against the Royal Challengers Bengaluru, RR defeated them by four wickets. However, it lost to SRH in Qualifier 2 and was eliminated from the race to the final. This year, again under the captaincy of Sanju Samson and with a revamped squad after the IPL 2025 Mega Auction, the team will be looking to perform well and win its second title.

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