IPL 2025: SRH vs KKR Stats & Records at Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi

Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) will "host" Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi for Match No. 68 of Indian Premier League 2025. With both teams eliminated from playoffs contention, this game will have absolutely no bearing on the race that the four playoffs teams are in for finishing in the top two. A true dead rubber, if you will.

This will be the last fixture for both teams in the tournament. Both teams also played their last game against RCB. KKR's last fixture against RCB in Bengaluru could not get underway at all owing to incessant rains. That game was abandoned even without the toss. 

Adverse weather conditions like the ones that affected the RCB-KKR game made the IPL take a decision to move the RCB-SRH game from Bengaluru to Lucknow. And in Lucknow, SRH came out on top. 

Firing with the aggression that SRH have come to be associated with since the start of last year, Ishan Kishan was at the forefront of the charge. A start from Abhishek Sharma alongside meaningful cameos from Aniket Verma and Heinrich Klaasen supplemented Kishan's unbeaten 94 as SRH set RCB a record chase. 

RCB's chase was going well, with Virat Kohli and Phil Salt leading the charge and putting up a dominant show in the first half. Eventually, Salt's dismissal triggered a slide for RCB. Rajat Patidar and Jitesh Sharma had a partnership, but RCB lost their last 7 wickets for just 16 runs. Pat Cummins and Eshan Malinga were the biggest catalysts behind the slowdown. 

KKR and SRH have faced each other once in the season before. KKR had comprehensively come up trumps in that game in Kolkata. KKR had a fairly slow start with Angkrish Raghuvanshi's fifty giving them some momentum. Eventually, Venkatesh Iyer kicked on in the death overs to give KKR a strong total. Vaibhav Arora wrecked SRH in the powerplay itself and the Orange Army never recovered. KKR's bowlers kept taking regular wickets in the middle overs and Varun Chakravarthy cleaned up the tail.

IPL stats at Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi

The surface has been producing lots of runs recently, it might continue being the case. 

Player battles to watch out for in SRH vs KKR, Match 68 of IPL 2025:

1. Travis Head vs Vaibhav Arora

For all the fear that Head's bravado induces in bowlers across the tournament, Arora has seemed unfazed so far. In three balls, Arora has dismissed Head twice in the IPL for just four runs. That computes out to a strike rate of 133.33 but an average of just 2.00. 

2. Sunil Narine vs Pat Cummins

In the IPL so far, Narine and Cummins have had a slam-bam thank you man matchup. The Trinidadian has made 25 runs in 11 balls at a strike rate of 227.27 while being dismissed twice at an average of 12.50 against the SRH skipper.