🏏 IPL 2025 19th Match SRH vs GT @ 7:30 PM IST 🏏

🏏 IPL 2025 — 19th Match: SRH vs GT at Hyderabad on 6th April, 7:30 PM IST 🏏

Sunrisers Hyderabad will lock horns with Gujarat Titans in IPL 2025 today (April 6). The 19th match of this season will take place at the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium in Hyderabad and will start at 7:30 PM

Sunrisers, the IPL 2024 finalists, are sitting right at the bottom of the points table, with just 1 win in 4 matches. Gujarat are at number 3 with 2 wins in 3 matches.

Sunrisers Hyderabad have had a tough time replicating last season's explosiveness that took them all the way to the summit clash. They started big, but have since lost three straight games, two of those on the road. They now return to the comforts of home, but face an opponent that's taken a leaf out of their book.

Skipper Shubman Gill, fellow opener Sai Sudharsan and Jos Buttler make up Titans' top-order that has collectively posted a total of 437 runs in the three outings of IPL 2025 - second only behind LSG's 482. However, SRH's trio of Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma and Ishan Kishan have scored only 284 in four games thus far. Take out the new recruit's century from this, and it paints a worrisome picture of the batting woes last year's runners-up are facing.

SRH's bowling frailities have also been exposed. They have been the worst bowling unit this season, ranked 10th in terms of economy rate (10.83) and average (41.15). In their most recent defeat, on a surface where the ball was stopping and gripping, the SRH bowlers failed to make the most of the conditions and allowed KKR to run away to an above-par score of 200, of which they conceded 78 in the slog-overs alone. SRH's death-overs economy of 15.04 is the worst among 10 teams in the competition, and more often than not putting excess pressure on an already misfiring batting unit.

In that respect, the Titans are only marginally better with the last-five overs ER of 12.73. But their formidable batting has papered over those cracks, for now at least. Even in the 11-run loss against PBKS in their tournament opener, Titans ran them very close in a massive chase of 244. The turnaround since then has seen them stack up 196 and successfuly defend it against Mumbai Indians in Ahmedabad, followed by a much more convincing eight-wicket win against RCB in Bengaluru while chasing 170. In batting-friendly climes of Hyderabad, this could well be the differentiator on Sunday.

What to expect: Hyderabad's pitches have made for high-scoring encounters with average first-innings total of 213.SRH themselves made 286 in their tournament opener, against RR, at the venue. The team winning the toss has opted to field in 16 of the 18 matches in IPL 2025 so far, including RR in Hyderabad late last month.

Head to Head: GT lead SRH 3-1 in 4 completed games. Titans registered a 7-wicket win at home last season, while the reverse fixture in Hyderabad was abandoned.

Sunrisers Hyderabad

Injury & Availability: There are no reported injury concerns.

Tactics & Match-ups: Mohammed Shami, who was the leader of GT's pace attack until 2023, has dismissed Shubman Gill twice in five innings in the format, while the opener strikes at only 113.88 against him and averages just 20.5, making it an enticing match-up.

Probable XII: Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Ishan Kishan, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Aniket Verma, Heinrich Klaasen (wk), Kamindu Mendis, Simarjeet Singh/Jaydev Unadkat, Pat Cummins (C), Harshal Patel, Mohammed Shami, Zeeshan Ansari

Gujarat Titans

Injury & Availability: Kagiso Rabada has returned home due to personal reasons, and will be unavailable. The South Africa pacer missed GT's previous game too where the team used just three overseas options.

Tactics & Match-ups: R Sai Kishore has flourished in IPL 2025 with 6 wickets so far in three games at an economy of 7.42. The onus would be on him to keep in check some of the best hitters of spin - Klaasen (SR 185.08) and Abhishek (SR 197.31) - since IPL 2023 that SRH pack in their line-up.

Probable XII: Sai Sudharsan, Shubman Gill (C), Jos Buttler (wk), Sherfane Rutherford, Shahrukh Khan, Rahul Tewatia, Arshad Khan, Rashid Khan, Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Ishant Sharma

Did you know?

- There have been nine 200-plus totals in 8 IPL matches in Hyderabad since 2024, four matches with 200-plus scores in each innings

- Sai Sudharsan only has one single-digit score in his last-seven IPL innings, and the lowest score in the other six outingsis 49.

- Besides some unwanted bowling numbers this season, SRH also lead the charts in no. of misfields (17), while GT have only six against their record.

Big Picture: Contrasting batting units meet

At first glance, it's hard to believe that Gujarat Titans (GT) have been more explosive than Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) in IPL 2025. GT have thrived on consistent contributions from B Sai Sudharsan and Jos Buttler, who has seamlessly slotted in at No. 3. In contrast, SRH have continued to struggle in the powerplay, unlike last year when they were the trendsetters.

Travishek haven't made the same impact, and the in-form Ishan Kishan has failed to build on an excellent initiation with his new franchise, having begun with a century. This has put too much pressure on the middle order of Nitish Reddy, Heinrich Klaasen and young Aniket Verma. Abhishek Sharma has struggled to replicate his explosive batting that saw him make his T20I debut for India. The real test is now to see if they can continue to keep up with the methods that brought them rich rewards last year. SRH have five 50-plus partnerships so far but they only average 21.68 per partnership, which is the lowest among all teams this season.

Their troubles aren't just restricted to batting. Mohammed Shami and Pat Cummins haven't been incisive and have conceded runs at an economy of 10 and 12.30 respectively and picked up three wickets apiece. They have tried different overseas options in Adam Zampa and Wiaan Mulder but neither of them has managed to impress. SRH average under five wickets per game and have the highest economy rate among all teams this season. They have an economy rate over ten per over in each phase, and are especially bad in the last four overs, where they concede at close to 17 per over.

In comparison, GT's top order has been leading them to robust starts. It has meant their undercooked middle order hasn't had to step in yet. They are coming off two back-to-back wins, the last one against Royal Challengers Bengaluru in particular was dominating from their batting standpoint. They also nearly chased down 244 in their season opener and scored 196 on a slower home surface against Mumbai Indians.

Form guide

Sunrisers Hyderabad LLL (Last three matches, most recent first)

Gujarat Titans WWL

New loyalties

Shami, the purple cap holder when he played for GT in 2023, is now part of SRH's pace attack, as is Abhinav Manohar, who was previously part of GT's lower-middle order. GT's bench has two former SRH players - allrounders Glenn Phillips and Washington Sundar, both of whom are yet to play.

Team news and likely XII

Simarjeet Singh has an economy rate of 13.44 across the nine overs he has bowled in three games so far. Jaydev Unadkat could probably get a look-in for his first game this season. Zeeshan Ansari's impressive performances could mean he continues as the Impact Player.

Sunrisers Hyderabad (probable): 1 Travis Head, 2 Abhishek Sharma, 3 Ishan Kishan (wk), 4 Nitish Reddy, 5 Kamindu Mendis, 6 Heinrich Klaasen, 7 Aniket Verma, 8 Pat Cummins (capt), 9 Harshal Patel, 10 Jaydev Unadkat/Simarjeet Singh, 11 Mohammed Shami, 12 Zeeshan Ansari

Kagiso Rabada missed the game against RCB and has since flown home for personal reasons. This could possibly mean a debut for Phillips although GT played only three overseas players in their last outing.

Gujarat Titans (probable): 1 Sai Sudharsan, 2 Shubman Gill (capt), 3 Jos Buttler (wk), 4 Sherfane Rutherford, 5 Shahrukh Khan, 6 Rahul Tewatia, 7 Glenn Phillips/Arshad Khan, 8 Rashid Khan, 9 Sai Kishore, 10 Mohammed Siraj, 11 Prasidh Krishna, 12 Ishant Sharma