SRH vs MI LIVE Score, Today IPL Match: Klaasen brings up first fifty of season, leads Sunrisers fightback – Firstpost

IPL Match Today LIVE Score, SRH vs MI: Heinrich Klaasen leads Sunrisers Hyderabad’s fightback with a 34-ball fifty, his first half-century of the season after Mumbai Indians reduce the ‘Orange Army’ to 35/5 after opting to field, with Deepak Chahar and Trent Boult collecting a couple of wickets each in the powerplay.   Sunrisers Hyderabad are close to getting knocked out of the IPL 025 after losing five out of seven matches so far. They need to quickly turn around their campaign to stay alive in the race for the playoffs but face a tough challenge at home today against the Mumbai Indians. The Mumbai Indians are in top form, winning their last three matches and will be aiming to move closer to the top four spots. All eyes will be on the pitch of the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad as SRH will hope for abating deck that suits their gameplan.
Klaasen brings up the milestone with a single in Boult’s third over, taking 34 deliveries to reach the milestone. This is after he welcomes the Kiwi left-arm pacer back into the attack with a four at the start of the over, completing the fifty-stand with Abhinav Manohar in the process. Nine off Boult’s third.
Mitchell Santner bowls out his final over next up, conceding his first and only boundary of the evening in the fourth delivery as Klaasen slaps a short delivery down the ground. The Kiwi left-arm spinner signs off without a wicket, but having only conceded 19 runs in four overs! Hyderabad, meanwhile, are one short of the century mark with four overs left. SRH 99/5
Ishan Kishan is caught-behind in Deepak Chahar’s second over after getting strangled down the leg side. What’s bizarre about the dismissal, however, is the fact that almost nobody from the MI camp appealed for a caught-behind dismissal; rather Kishan started to walk off.
Even the umpire had partially raised his finger with no one appealing and made the full signal for a dismissal once the MI players noticed and raised their voices.
The cherry on top of the cake is the fact that UltraEdge shows no contact between bat and ball in subsequent replays. SRH 12/2 after 3
Travis Head clears his front leg looking to smash the length ball from the Kiwi left-arm seamer out of the ground, only to send the ball high in the air after hitting off the toe-end of his bat. Naman Dhir settles under the ball to complete an easy catch at backward point.
Abhishek opens his account with a six in the final delivery, flicking a full delivery over cow corner, after new batter Ishan Kishan collects a single. SRH 9/1 after 2
Sunrisers Hyderabad: Abhishek Sharma, Travis Head, Ishan Kishan, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Heinrich Klaasen(wk), Aniket Verma, Pat Cummins(c), Harshal Patel, Jaydev Unadkat, Zeeshan Ansari, Eshan Malinga; Impact Subs: Abhinav Manohar, Sachin Baby, Rahul Chahar, Wiaan Mulder, Mohammed Shami
Mumbai Indians: Ryan Rickelton(wk), Will Jacks, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya(c), Naman Dhir, Mitchell Santner, Deepak Chahar, Trent Boult, Jasprit Bumrah, Vignesh Puthur; Impact Subs: Rohit Sharma, Corbin Bosch, Raj Bawa, Satyanarayana Raju, Robin Minz
“Very hot here in Hyderabad. There is a bias in the dimensions – 63m to the right and 70m to the left. Down the ground is 77m. Third time on this particular pitch, this is where all those high scoring games have come.
“The pitch is very dry and hard. It is a 200+ wicket, but will depend on who can take the early advantage. Both teams have some skilled operators of swing and seam. Won’t be as high as that first game against Rajasthan, but still a great batting surface,” say Morrison and Hayden.
Rohit had smashed 26 in 14 deliveries during MI’s home game against SRH before chipping a full toss straight to Travis Head at cover.
Now that he has regained his form after a match-winning 76 against CSK, can Rohit win Round 2 of his battle against the Australia captain, someone he has had plenty of riveting battles with in recent years?
SRH openers Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma played a major role in their team’s run to the final last year. And after a series of early dismissals, the pair had finally clicked in the team’s dominant eight-wicket victory over Punjab Kings with a 171-run opening stand.
Against MI last week, the pair added 59 runs for the first wicket, albeit in nearly eight overs. Can they collect their second century opening stand later this evening?
Here’s a summary of MI’s results this season:
— Lost to CSK by 4 wickets
— Lost to GT by 36 runs
— Defeated KKR by 8 wickets
— Lost to LSG by 12 runs
— Lost to RCB by 12 runs
— Defeated DC by 12 runs
— Defeated SRH by 4 wickets
— Defeated CSK by 9 wickets
Here’s a summary of SRH’s results this season:
— Defeated RR by 44 runs
— Lost to LSG by 5 wickets
— Lost to DC by 7 wickets
— Lost to KKR by 80 runs
— Lost to GT by 7 wickets
— Defeated PBKS by 8 wickets
— Lost to MI by 4 wickets
Neither SRH nor Rajasthan Royals or Chennai Super Kings, the other teams in the bottom half of the table, have been eliminated from the playoffs race so far this season.
That said, SRH do need to get back to winning ways at the earliest and try and win at least five of their next seven matches, preferably with big margins keeping their Net Run Rate in mind. Usually 16 points is considered the safe zone for teams to qualify for the playoffs. But there have been occasions with teams have gone through with 14, with NRR becoming a factor at this stage.
SRH had even qualified for the 2019 playoffs with just 12 points – the lowest in IPL history. That, however, is an exception and not a norm.
Matches: 24
MI won: 14
SRH won: 10
Last five meetings:
MI won: 4
SRH won: 1
Mumbai Indians had restricted Sunrisers Hyderabad to a below par 162/5 at the Wankhede Stadium last Thursday, thanks to Will Jacks’ 2/14 from three overs and Jasprit Bumrah’s economical spell of 1/21 from four.
Jacks would later lead the way in the chase with a knock of 36 off 26 balls while Rohit Sharma showed first glimpses of regaining his form with a knock of 26 off 15 as MI chased the target down with four wickets and nearly two overs to spare. They should have chased it down within 17 overs, but for some reason, struggled to score in Eshan Malinga’s final over in which the Sri Lankan conceded just a single while collecting two wickets.
IPL 2025, SRH vs MI Live Cricket Score: Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) face Mumbai Indians (MI) in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 match on Wednesday (22 April) at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad. MI are in top form, having won their last three matches, while the home team, Sunrisers, are struggling for form.
With five defeats in seven matches, their IPL 2025 campaign looks almost over unless they launch a turnaround tonight. MI have collected eight points so far and will look to enter the top half of the IPL 2025 points table with a victory over SRH.
Today’s IPL match between SRH and MI will also see the players pay tribute to the victims of the Pahalgam terror attack as they will wear black armbands and observe silence for one minute before the game. There will be no cheerleaders at the stadium today and no fireworks.
The SRH vs MI match will be played from 7.30 PM IST at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad on Wednesday (22 April). The match will be live-streamed on the JioHotstar app and website and the broadcast will be available on Star Sports and Sports18 TV channels.
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