SRH vs KKR, 68th Match at Delhi, IPL, May 25 2025 - Match Result

A contest between last year's finalists ends with a different result in a great game for the batters. One of the top-two teams will be decied when MI and PBKS take on each other. Hope to see you for that. Thanks for joining tonight. I'm Ekanth, signing off on behalf of Ashish Pant, and our scorers, Venkat Raghav and Thilak Ram.

Heinrich Klaasen, POTM: The franchise spends a lot of money on this. We had a bad start and middle, we fought to turn it around in the last three games. Nice to give something back to them. There was individual pride as well. I didn't go on in a few games, did so tonight. Plan was to go straight on this ground. I got my trajectory better, didn't take on too many fielders. Pleased with that. I worked a lot on judging length, it's getting me out a couple of times, so I've had to work on it in the nets a lot. After the powerplay is when I'd ideally go, but I get paid to do well whenever I go in.

Pat Cummins, SRH captain: Amazing finish. Lot of things clicked in the last few games. Amazing batting. We have the calibre, but we couldn't play any worse in some parts. Have the team to make the finals most times. It just didn't work out this year. We're gonna get wickets like this where we can max out, but others where we need to graft to 170 which we didn't get right. Feel like quite a few guys got opportunities. Really happy with the squad despite some injuries and players going out. Feels like we used 20 players.

Harsh Dubey: My plan was to stick to my strength. I tried to turn the ball as much as possible, and how to use the angles and my fields to left-handers. There have been a few coaches and inputs from Ashwin and I've tried to incorporate my learnings. (Coming on the back of a good Ranji season) I wasn't focusing on my past performances but rather to do well with the white ball.

Ajinkya Rahane, KKR captain: SRH batted well, we made errors. They capitalised on the loose balls and hit the good balls as well. Their intent was great. (Taking pace off) We discussed it, going wide too, but if the bowler doesn't execute it well, batters like Klaasen capitalise. Through the season, we had our moments. Two or three close games, which we didn't play well. We gave our best, in a format like this you have to be switched on always. If we'd taken those moments, we'd have been one or two. No regrets, all gave their best. We'll come back strong next year.

Vasu: "The entire season for SRH can be summed up in that last wicket! They fumbled their way through to not finish at the bottom."

11:16pm: All smiles on SRH's players' faces after they complete a 110-run drubbing. Could've been much higher considering Unadkat's early strikes. Malinga and Harsh then took over to derail the middle order. Lots of slower ones and dew set in for Pandey and the lower-order batters to get a few. Lots of straight sixes with bowlers erring full. Malinga and Unadkat cut Harshit's fun just a little short in the end.

akheel: "can both captains handshake and declare Srh winner ? " Chasing teams can't declare according to the playing conditions iirc

Sathish: "For a minute, I thought it is 18 off 18 balls to win…" Your optician's awaiting you

Around

Curious: "Can there ever be a 0% win probability?" Nope, 0.01. Fourth umpire now on with a new set of balls. Used ones. The wet, old one gets replaced

A bit of dew now on

KreshaDixitSing: "KKR escaped worst defeat by those late hittings."