Hyderabad: The city is bracing for a severe heat wave. Mercury has passed the 40 mark and is rising. However, all that will be lost on Vaibhav Sooryavanshi when he takes on Sunrisers Hyderabad, who are yet to find their way in this edition of the IPL.fiery rajasthan royals are an in-form team that goes into the match at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium on Monday and owe a lot of their success to Sooryavanshi. He has maintained his reputation in this tournament and Sooryavanshi performed brilliantly, demolishing bowlers and attackers with the composure of a 15-year-old.Push boundaries with our YouTube channel. Subscribe now!Thanks to his predatory behavior at the top with Yasashvi Jaiswal, Rajasthan have shown that they are equally adept at setting or tracking the total. Factor in Dhruv Yurel’s calming influence in the midfield and it’s easy to see why Rajasthan’s top three have dominated the Orange Cap table. Sooryavanshi is trading at 266.66, which is why Rajasthan is racing like a flaming train.Abhishek Sharma It also went to 218.64, but inconsistently, and this has had an impact on the Sunrisers, who must have realized by now that last year’s total template of 200-plus was no longer a safe bet.
Last season, SRH was the envy of every team with its 200-run score – the second-highest IPL total of 286/6 last time out at this venue against Rajasthan – and now, the Sunrisers are seeing the same in return. A year is a long time in sports and if anything, the IPL continues to evolve with Sunrisers scoring over 200 runs this year.They successfully defended Kolkata Knight Riders with a 65-run win, their only win in four games so far, and saw Royal Challengers Bangalore and, most recently, Kings XI Punjab break the aggregate in quick succession. All of these were away games for SRH, who played in all four matches, including their only match at home against Lucknow Supergiants, when they were ruined by Mohammad Shami’s skill.Ishan Kishan was the hero in this high-scoring match between the two teams last season, scoring 106 runs off 47 balls as SRH won by 44 runs. If Cap can repeat this inning, the Suns offense, which looks shaky in the absence of Pat Cummins, has something to pitch to.
| 4 – Sunrisers Hyderabad have won their last four IPL matches against Rajasthan Royals – by four wickets in Jaipur on May 7, 2023; in a match in Hyderabad on May 2, 2024; by 36 runs in Chennai on May 24, 2024, and by 44 runs in Hyderabad on March 23, 2025. RR’s last victory over SRH was on April 2, 2023 in Hyderabad by 72 runs. |
