IPL 2025: Can SRH still qualify for play-offs after four losses in a row?
After opening the 2025 season in a grand manner, posting a mammoth 286-run total and containing opponents - Rajasthan Royals to 242, SRH lost the next four matches in a row.
Sunrisers Hyderabad is reeling under pressure after four successive defeats in the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL), threatening their play off chances.
Coming to their bowling, almost all bowlers in their last five matches have conceded a lot of runs. Starting with skipper Pat Cummins, who leaked a total of 60 runs against RR in the opener.
Their bowling unit, which includes the likes of India's star pacer Mohammed Shami, Cummins, Adam Zampa and Harshal Patel failed to defend a decent total of 190 runs on home soil. LSG chased down 190 runs with almost four overs to spare.
In their last outing against GT, the struggling bowling unit let the match slip away too soon, as the Shubman Gill-led side chased down the modest total of 152 in 16.4 overs.
SRH head coach also admitted the poor effort in fielding as well.
"We just haven't been near our best in any of the last four games. And I think that's all three disciplines. I think the barometer of most teams is how their fielding is going and we've been pretty poor in the field. So those will be the work-ons between now and the Punjab game," Daniel Vettori said in the post-match presentation of their clash with GT.
Going forward they have to take it easy on their ultra-aggressive approach and respect the conditions to get better results, as rightly opined by Vettori.
"I think if you look at the wins that we've had, they came with a lot of understanding of what the wicket is behaving like and adjusting our game plans accordingly," the former Black Caps player said.