🏏IPL 2025,M41 MI vs SRH on Apr23rd 7:30pm IST @ Hyderabad 🏏 - Page 2

SRH vs MI Probable Best Performers

Probable Best Batter of the match: Travis Head

Travis Head out (Source: NOAH SEELAM/AFP via Getty Images)

SRH opener Travis Head could be the best batter in the upcoming game against MI. With 242 runs in his last seven matches, Head is the highest run-getter for his side in the tournament, and his performance will be crucial against the five-time champions. The southpaw has already scored two half-centuries and has given his side good starts. The Orange Army will desperately want the Australian to take on Mumbai bowlers and hammer them all around the park.

Probable Best Bowler of the match: Jasprit Bumrah

Jasprit Bumrah. (Photo by Prakash Singh/Getty Images)

Ace MI pacer Jasprit Bumrah could play a crucial role in the game against SRH. The right-arm pacer who missed the first few games has looked decent so far. In four games that he played, Bumrah has managed to bag four wickets, including figures of 1/21 against the Hyderabad franchise in Wankhede. The former champions will bank on their star bowler to tackle Hyderabad's dangerous batting-order.

Scenario 1

• Sunrisers Hyderabad win the toss and bat
• PP Score - 75-85
• SRH - 215-230
• Sunrisers Hyderabad win the match

Scenario 2

• Mumbai Indians win the toss and bat
• PP score - 65-75
• MI - 230-245
• Mumbai Indians win the match

Disclaimer: The prediction is based on the understanding, analysis, and instinct of the author. While making your prediction, consider the points mentioned and make your own decision.

Big picture: Lots to lose for SRH, lots to win for MI

Mixed results were an inherent risk with Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) approaching batting like they have nothing to lose. It was polarising, but playing like that nearly won them IPL 2024. They won five of their first seven games last year; in IPL 2025 it's been the opposite.

The template for their success has been for Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma to get off to a flier. Them falling for low scores in that attempt was meant to happen at some point or the other. The issue, as was magnified in the last game - against the same opponents - was that the openers got stuck at times.

In a way, that's worse than getting out for low scores as the top-order batters end up using more balls, which is the pitfall of conservative batting, the style that SRH deliberately tried to avoid. The facts that Nitish Kumar Reddy averages 21 and that Heinrich Klaasen's highest score so far this season is 35 have cascaded the effects of poor starts.

Their bowling has had little to show amid all this. Mohammed Shami is averaging 52.20 and Pat Cummins 36 so far. Their spinners have taken the least wickets, and have the worst economy across teams this season.

Mumbai Indians (MI) are perfectly placed in all of this. They built their success in the last decade by starting slow and catching up as the season progressed. They had one win after five games this season, before a hat-trick of wins lifted them to the sixth spot; one more on Wednesday will take them up to third. They lost their first three games away from home but handed Delhi Capitals (DC) their first loss of the season with a remarkable comeback win.

Trent Boult has not only swung the new ball but also used his variations early on. Jasprit Bumrah is finding his rhythm after injury, but unlike most mortals, is doing it much quicker and with a lot more control. Reverse swing coming back into fold due to the use of saliva is helpful.

That might be necessary in Hyderabad, which is unlikely to assist the bowlers like the slow Wankhede pitch in the previous match. What they do have, under Hardik Pandya and experienced bowlers, is the ability to suss out the conditions early and try out multiple plans.

Thank you for the tag

But I don't know how to watch this Match, i don't know how to cheer for SRH today, I just can't feel it

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Thanks Soni for the tag and informative thread ..Looking forward to the match

Thanks for the tag Soni 🧡💙.

Don't know if Rohit will score well today if I chose him.

I want to see 300+ score from SRH today

Thank you, Soni, for the thread and for tagging me.

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