IPL 2025 Live report - SRH vs MI - Boult, Chahar, Rohit lead MI to fourth win in a row

Suryakumar Yadav was already batting on 26 when Rohit fell, and was picking his spots and targeting them clinically. He finishes the game with a flurry of boundaries, and ends unbeaten on 40 off just 19 balls. The finish sums up the game, a flat Suryakumar pull off Zeeshan Ansari that could have been a catch at deep square leg only for Nitish Kumar Reddy to overrun the ball and let the ball run away to the boundary.

Anyway, how often have we seen this before? MI seem to be building ominous momentum after the customary slow start to their season. After winning just one of their first five games of IPL 2025, they’ve now won four out of four.

SRH, meanwhile, are second from bottom with just two wins in eight games. They took a net run rate hit too; theirs is now -1.361, only marginally better than bottom-placed Chennai Super Kings' -1.392.

After 0, 8, 13, 17, 18, 26 and 76*, he falls for 70. Gets into a bit of a tangle with his feet against an Eshan Malinga yorker that follows his attempt to create room, and he chips the ball to the man at midwicket. MI are 131 for 3, and need 13 off 31 balls now.

Three fours in a 15-run 14th over, off Harshal Patel, and Rohit and MI are both flying. A cut, a flick and a neatly manipulated paddle-sweep.

He's bettered his scores with every innings he's played this season. Before today, his sequence of scores read 0, 8, 13, 17, 18, 26, 76*. He's on track to continue doing that, reaching his half-century off 35 balls. So good to see him back in the runs and striking the ball fluently.

MI are 85 for 2 in 11 overs. They need 59 off 54 balls.

For once, the slowness of the pitch does in an MI batter. This is probably a ball Jacks would have hit for six on most pitches, with Zeeshan Ansari floating one up in his arc, but he can't quite manufacture the power he needs to clear the man at long-on. Replays show there was a bit of grip and turn for Ansari as well.

MI are 77 for 2 after 9.2 overs.

MI are cruising at the moment, as their powerplay score suggests. I don't know if there's dew and if there's a lot of it, but the ball certainly seems to be coming onto the bat a lot better now than it did during SRH's innings. Rohit is batting on 27 off 16 balls and Jacks on 18 off 12.

He has now hit 259 sixes for Mumbai Indians, going past their previous record-holder Kieron Pollard. No. 259 is a beauty: he makes room and extends his arms through the line to loft a slower ball from Unadkat over long-off. Perhaps bowled it a touch too full and into Rohit's arc.

After four overs, MI are 43 for 1.

Cummins usually gets excellent returns with his offcutter into the pitch, but somehow, on this surface of all surfaces, they sit up nicely for MI's batters in the third over of their innings. Rohit Sharma and Will Jacks pick up a pulled six each as 17 come off the over, and MI are 30 for 1.

The ball is holding in the pitch even now, and Ryan Rickelton is the victim. Jaydev Unadkat marks his return with a wicket in his first over, the second of MI's innings, getting a hard-length ball to stop on Rickelton. He pushes at it, looking to clip towards mid-on, and pops it back to the bowler off I think the outside half of his bat. Unadkat sticks out his left hand in his follow-through to complete an excellent return catch.

MI are 13 for 1 in 1.4 overs.

Last week, Mumbai Indians (MI) had straightjacketed Sunrisers Hyderabad’s (SRH) batters on an atypically slow surface at the Wankhede Stadium. On Tuesday, they did the same in the reverse fixture at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad, sending SRH in and keeping them to 143 for 8. Getting to that total was a bit of an achievement for SRH after they had slumped to 35 for 5, with Heinrich Klaasen hauling them to something like respectability with a superb 71 off 44 balls.

The most telling performances of the innings came from MI’s new-ball bowlers, however, with Trent Boult and Deepak Chahar picking up two early wickets each as SRH slumped to the lowest powerplay score of the season, 24 for 4. SRH were in danger of collapsing to a double-digit total when they lost their fifth wicket in their ninth over, but Klaasen and Impact Player Abhinav Manohar ensured that didn’t happen, putting on 99 for the sixth wicket in 63 balls.

Klaasen played a number of sensational shots – none better than a reverse-scooped six off Jasprit Bumrah in the 19th over – but thanks to the circumstances SRH were in, his innings was necessarily one of restraint, as a control percentage of 86 suggested. The risks he took were measured ones, off marginal errors in line and length from MI’s bowlers. That he still finished with a 160-plus strike rate was a testament to his quality, with Manohar’s 43 off 37 balls and the scores of SRH’s other batters putting his innings in context.

Interviewed during the innings break, Manohar suggested the pitch had been on the slow side, with the ball holding in the surface particularly early on. Despite that, he felt SRH’s score was not nearly enough.

The early exchanges set the tone, with both Chahar and Boult swinging the new ball while also benefitting from the grippiness of the surface. Conditions still weren’t as tricky as SRH’s top-order slump made them look, though; both Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma were caught while going hard at the ball, slicing shots they were early on, while Nitish Kumar Reddy chipped a drive to mid-on.

The biggest moment of SRH’s powerplay collapse, however, was the wicket of Ishan Kishan, who was out to a leg-side strangle for the second time this season. He began walking even though no MI player made a genuine appeal, and Ultra Edge proceeded to rub more salt in SRH’s wounds, showing no spike as ball passed bat.

There was one more unusual dismissal later in SRH's innings, during a double-wicket final over from Boult, who finished with 4 for 26. He sneaked a yorker past Manohar and hit the stumps, but the batter, sitting deep in his crease, had already disturbed his wicket while trying to bring his bat down to keep the ball out.

And it's his 300th T20 wicket to boot. Gets it right at the end of a strangely expensive four-over quota today, strange because of what's happened around him. Gets the wicket with a full-toss too, which Klaasen swings out to the leg side and into the hands of deep backward square leg. Four full-tosses in that 19th over, and Klaasen had hit the previous one for an extraordinary six, a reverse-scoop over short third that carried all the way.

SRH are 134 for 6 in 19 overs. Klaasen goes for a terrific 71 off 44 balls, and Bumrah finishes with 1 for 39.

...who drops a sitter running in from long-on. A full-toss from Bumrah in the 19th over that Manohar doesn't quite get hold of.

Back-to-back double-digit overs for the second time in SRH's innings, and they're now 123 for 5 in 18 overs. Bumrah and Hardik deliver the 17th and 18th overs, and this time both batters have contributed to the boundary count, with Manohar hitting two fours and a six in this sequence. SRH are still going at less than seven an over, though, and need a big finish to put any real pressure on MI.

MI yank off their left-arm unorthodox spinner after just one expensive over. Just four overs left in the innings, so they don't have any more use for him now, especially with Klaasen still at the crease. Rohit Sharma is their Impact Player once again.

Lovely innings from Klaasen, and it perhaps puts the rest of SRH's batting effort in perspective that he hasn't really done too much other than go after relatively bad balls, with his sense of adventure constrained by the circumstances of his innings. This doesn't really seem like a 90 for 5 in 15 overs type of pitch.

Smart, smart bowling from Mitchell Santner so far. Excellent variations of pace and seam orientation, excellent lengths, and for most part he's keeping the stumps in play. It's a slowish pitch, and SRH have already lost five wickets, so they aren't willing to take too many risks at the moment to try and go after him. SRH are now 81 for 5 in 14 overs, with their Impact Player Abhinav Manohar batting on 10 off 16 balls.

SRH have scored 31 across the tenth and eleventh overs of their innings, and Klaasen has been on strike all the way through. Hardik Pandya bowls this over, and his control isn't quite up to scratch, but some exceptional shots from Klaasen to capitalise on what are fairly marginal errors in line and length. The third of the three fours is the most glorious one, a checked drive on the up to beat mid-off diving left and deep cover chasing right.

...with a help of a few half-trackers from Vignesh Puthur in the 10th over, which brings SRH 15 runs. They're now 52 for 5, with Klaasen batting on 26 off 22.

Hardik Pandya is one of the IPL's best exponents of into-the-pitch bowling on slower pitches. He bowls a slower offcutter-bouncer and gets it to kick on Aniket Verma, whose attempt at a pull is complicated by the fact that he's trying to drag the ball from well outside off stump. Only manages a top edge through to the keeper, and SRH are 35 for 5 in the ninth over.

It's the eighth anniversary of 49 all out (hat tip to Sampath Bandarupalli for unearthing that little fact), and SRH have some work to do to get past that total.

A sobering powerplay for SRH. MI's seamers haven't done a whole lot other than bowl good length, bowl change-ups every now and then, and get a bit of swing. The pitch seems to be a touch on the drier side, and therefore a little slow, but I'm not sure it's the kind of pitch for 24 for 4 in six overs. How will Heinrich Klaasen and Aniket Verma go from here?

This is the lowest powerplay score of IPL 2025, by the way.

What's happening here? MI's new-ball bowlers have two wickets each now, and Nitish Kumar Reddy goes for 2 at the start of the fifth over. Fullish ball from Chahar, angling into the stumps, it's probably there to be driven down the ground. Reddy will maybe tell himself he should have either looked to hit it along the ground or properly loft it. Instead he hits it at catching height and Santner moves to his left from mid-on to pouch it in front of his chest. I don't think Reddy middled that at all, even though the ball didn't seem to do all that much. Maybe stopped on him slightly.

Maybe a bit of away-swing, maybe a bit of pace off, maybe a bit of ball stopping on the pitch, maybe a bit of everything. Length ball again, outside off, and Abhishek looks to stand up and slap it through the covers. Ends up slicing it straight to point, where Puthur takes the low chance. SRH are 13 for 3 after 3.3 overs. They're going absolutely nowhere at this point.

Replays show it was a lovely bit of deception from Boult, a perfectly executed knuckle ball.

The second time this season that Ishan Kishan is out to a leg-side strangle. Chahar bowls an inswinger to the left-hander, but it's swinging down leg. Kishan tries to whip it away off his hip, but only manages a tickle through to the keeper. The umpire initially signalled wide, but Kishan began walking even though MI weren't really appealing for caught behind. Gets a pat on the helmet from Hardik Pandya, the opposition captain, as he walks off.

Oh wow. There's no spike on Ultra Edge as the ball passes the bat! Kishan probably felt something, but I'm not sure the SRH dugout will be too pleased that he walked.

SRH's openers have had some lucky breaks in their last two games, and Abhishek Sharma gets one in the first over today. Deepak Chahar is getting the new ball to swing considerably, and he'd already struck Travis Head on the pad with his second ball (it was swinging down he leg side). Then he bowls one wide of off stump, and it's a low full-toss, and Abhishek drives early at it, and pops it back towards the bowler off the inside half of the bat. It's a low chance, and Chahar can't hold on though he gets both hands to the ball.

Trent Boult takes the new ball at the other end, and he strikes with his second ball, and again there's swing involved. This is a good-length ball swerving away from Head in the corridor, and he tries to stay leg-side of the ball and hit it maybe over mid-off - the swing and the length cause him to slice it much, much squarer than intended, and Naman Dhir takes the catch running in from deep backward point.

SRH are 2 for 1.

Mumbai Indians have chosen to bowl after their captain Hardik Pandya won the toss against Sunrisers Hyderabad at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium.

Asked why he was chasing, Hardik suggested that the pitch looked like a good one to bat on and unlikely to change between innings. MI made one change to their XI from their last match against Chennai Super Kings, bolstering their spin attack by including Vignesh Puthur at the expense of the left-arm seamer Ashwani Kumar. Rohit Sharma starts on the bench but is likely to come on as Impact Player after the innings break.

SRH made one change too, leaving out Mohammed Shami – who has endured a difficult season so far, picking up just five wickets in seven games at 52.20 while conceding 10.87 runs per over – and bringing in the left-arm seamer Jaydev Unadkat, who is known for his changes of pace. Shami was named on SRH’s substitutes bench, though, so he remains an Impact Player option.

There were a few cracks on its top surface before the start of the match, but the pitch is expected to be a good one to bat on. The first four matches at this venue have produced four 240-plus scores. Both teams will look to exploit the asymmetry of the square boundaries, located 63m and 70m away from the pitch.

These two teams met last week at the Wankhede Stadium, where MI beat SRH by four wickets. MI are sixth on the IPL table after picking up three wins on the bounce following a slow start to the season. SRH are ninth, with just two wins in seven games.

Sunrisers Hyderabad: 1 Travis Head, 2 Abhishek Sharma, 3 Ishan Kishan, 4 Nitish Kumar Reddy, 5 Heinrich Klaasen (wk), 6 Aniket Verma, 7 Pat Cummins (capt), 8 Harshal Patel, 9 Jaydev Unadkat, 10 Zeeshan Ansari, 11 Eshan Malinga.
Bench: Abhinav Manohar, Sachin Baby, Mohammed Shami, Rahul Chahar, Wiaan Mulder.

Mumbai Indians: 1 Ryan Rickelton (wk), 2 Suryakumar Yadav, 3 Tilak Varma, 4 Hardik Pandya (capt), 5 Naman Dhir, 6 Will Jacks, 7 Mitchell Santner, 8 Deepak Chahar, 9 Trent Boult, 10 Jasprit Bumrah, 11 Vignesh Puthur.
Bench: Rohit Sharma, Corbin Bosch, Satyanarayana Raju, Raj Bawa, Robin Minz.

As we wait for the toss, a reminder that players from both teams will wear black armbands today, and observe a minute's silence as a mark of respect for the victims of the terror attack in Pahalgam on Tuesday. More on that here.