🏏 IPL 2025 Match Highlights: SRH vs KKR – May 25, 2025

 

📍 Venue: Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi

🕒 Match: IPL 2025 – Match 68

🏆 Result: Sunrisers Hyderabad won by 110 runs

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🔥 Toss

• Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) won the toss and elected to bat first.

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🏏 SRH Batting Innings: 278/3 (20 Overs)

Sunrisers Hyderabad unleashed a batting storm at the Arun Jaitley Stadium, posting 278 runs – one of the highest totals in IPL 2025.

⭐ Top Performers:

• Heinrich Klaasen – 105 runs off 39 balls*

  • Strike Rate: 269.23

  • 8 sixes, 7 fours

  • 3rd-fastest century in IPL history

• Travis Head – 76 runs off 40 balls

  • Set the pace in the powerplay

• Abhishek Sharma – 32 runs off 16 balls

  • Aggressive cameo at the top

• Nitish Kumar Reddy – 37 runs off 15 balls*

  • Finished the innings with a flourish

🧨 Innings Summary:

• Powerplay: 79/1 in 6 overs

• Mid-overs destruction led by Klaasen

• Final 5 overs: 86 runs scored

• Total: 278/3 in 20 overs

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🎯 KKR Bowling Performance

Bowler	Overs	Runs	Wickets
Sunil Narine	4	38	1
Harshit Rana	3	49	0
Vaibhav Arora	4	57	1
Varun Chakravarthy	4	50	1
Russell / Others	5	84	0

KKR's bowlers had no answer to SRH's attacking play. Every bowler went for above 10 runs an over.

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🏏 KKR Batting Innings: 168 All Out (18.4 Overs)

Chasing a mammoth total of 279, KKR never really got going. Despite some early boundaries, their innings crumbled under pressure.

🔝 Top Scorers:

• Sunil Narine – 31 runs off 16 balls

• Ajinkya Rahane – 15 runs off 8 balls

• Venkatesh Iyer – 12 runs off 11 balls

• Rest of the batting collapsed in single digits

💥 Wickets Tumbled Quickly:

• Lost 4 wickets in the first 5 overs

• Mid-order failed to build partnerships

• All out for 168 in 18.4 overs

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🎯 SRH Bowling Performance

Bowler	Overs	Runs	Wickets
Eshan Malinga	4	31	3
Jaydev Unadkat	3.4	27	3
Pat Cummins	4	40	2
Shahbaz Ahmed	2	20	1

SRH bowlers struck early and often. Eshan Malinga bowled with raw pace, while Unadkat used variations to perfection.

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🏆 Match Awards

• Player of the Match: Heinrich Klaasen

  • 105* (39) – explosive innings that defined the match

• Most Sixes: Heinrich Klaasen (8)

• Best Bowling Figures: Eshan Malinga – 3/31

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🔍 Key Match Stats

• SRH’s 278/3: One of the highest team totals in IPL history

• Klaasen’s Century: 3rd-fastest IPL century ever

• Victory Margin: 110 runs – one of the biggest wins in IPL 2025

• KKR's Collapse: Their second-heaviest defeat by margin of runs

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📊 Full Scorecard Snapshot

Sunrisers Hyderabad: 278/3 (20 Overs)

• Klaasen 105* (39), Head 76 (40), Sharma 32 (16), Reddy 37* (15)

Kolkata Knight Riders: 168 all out (18.4 Overs)

• Narine 31 (16), Rahane 15 (8)

• Malinga 3/31, Unadkat 3/27

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🗣️ Captain Reactions

🟠 Pat Cummins (SRH Captain):

"Absolutely proud of the boys. This was a complete performance. Klaasen was unbelievable, and our bowlers backed it up perfectly."

🟣 Shreyas Iyer (KKR Captain):

"We didn’t execute our plans with the ball, and the pressure showed during the chase. Credit to SRH – they were outstanding."

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🧠 Final Takeaways

• SRH’s aggressive brand of cricket paid off big time.

• Klaasen's destructive century reminded everyone of his world-class finishing ability.

• Malinga’s rise as a strike bowler adds depth to SRH’s bowling unit.

• KKR, despite their strong season, were blown away in all departments.