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NEW DELHI :Sunrisers Hyderabad head coach Daniel Vettori felt the slow pitches on their home ground did not suit their free-scoring batters after the side crashed out of the playoff race of this year's Indian Premier League.
Rishabh Pant is not having the best of times at the IPL 2025. As the skipper of Lucknow Super Giants, Rishabh Pant - the costliest player in the history of the IPL with a price tag of Rs 27 crore - has been a big flop so far. In the IPL 2025, Pant has scored 128 in 11 matches at an average of 12.80. He has just one half-century as Pant endures the worst IPL season since he started playing the league in 2016. The star wicketkeeper-batter's recent outing for LSG against Punjab Kings ended in a 18-run knock. Former Australia star Adam Gilchrist, one of the most respected wicketkeeper-batter's in the history of the game, had some interesting observations about the players.
Following the washout against Delhi Capitals (DC), Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) head coach Daniel Vettori said that the conditions at Hyderabad were not like as they expected and the surfaces were tricky. After being the trailblazers of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 with an ultra-attacking brand of batting led by Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma, SRH bowed out of the 2025 season with just three wins in 11 games following a washout against DC at home on Monday.
Rishabh Pant, star India wicketkeeper-batter and the most expensive player in IPL 2025 history with a price tag of Rs 27 crore, is having an underwhelming season with just 128 runs in ten innings. His performances include five single-digit scores, one duck, and only a single half-century. In Sunday's match against the Punjab Kings, Pant came in at No. 4 following two early dismissals but managed only 18 runs off 17 balls while chasing a target of 237. LSG lost the game by 37 runs and now sit seventh on the points table with six defeats in 11 matches.
Gujarat Titans' Kagiso Rabada is set to make a comeback in the IPL after serving a one-month suspension with all procedures regarding the South Africa pacer's recreational drug use being "followed to the letter", said the franchise's director of cricket Vikram Solanki on Monday. Rabada was handed a one-month suspension for recreational drug use while playing for the MI Cape Town in the SA20 tournament in January this year. He was informed about failing the drug test on April 1, and two days later, GT announced that Rabada had returned home for "personal reasons".
Mumbai Indians, after a typical slow start in the IPL 2025, are firmly a front-runner to earn a place in the IPL 2025 playoffs. The Hardik Pandya-led MI have 14 points from 11 games and are currently second in the 10-team table. Middle-order batter Tilak Varma has been an important player for MI. Ahead of MI's IPL 2025 game against GT at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Tuesday, Tilak Varma indulged in a fun game of pickleball with actor Vijay Deverakonda.
The race for the IPL 2025 playoffs is heating up as this year's competition reach its business end. With the match between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Delhi Capitals getting abandoned due to wet outfield, SRH became the third team after Rajasthan Royals and Chennai Super Kings to crash out of the race. However, seven other teams still have the chance to reach the Top 4 of the competition and although Royal Challengers Bengaluru are the clear favourites at the moment, Punjab Kings, Gujarat Titans, Mumbai Indians and Delhi Capitals are engaged in a tough fight for the playoff spots.
After the intense two months of the IPL will be over, the Indian men's cricket team will be touring England for a five-match Test series. This is going to be a crucial series for India as it will be the beginning of the 2025-27 cycle of the World Test Championship for them. Rohit Sharma and co failed to complete a hat-trick of reaching the WTC finals after losing to Australia in the five-match Border-Gavaskar Trophy earlier in January. The series was truly a debacle for India as they ended up losing 1-3.