How Can SRH Qualify For IPL 2025 Playoffs After 7-Wicket Defeat To Mumbai Indians?

Last Updated:April 24, 2025, 00:10 IST

SRH lost to MI by seven wickets, placing them ninth within the points table with two wins from eight matches. They need to win all six remaining games to qualify.

We have a look at SRH’s possibilities of qualifying (PC: AP)

Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) added one other huge obstacle to their path to the highest 4 this season by losing one other home match — an enormous, seven-wicket defeat to Mumbai Indians (MI) on the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium on Wednesday (April 23). They are actually placed ninth within the points table with just two wins from eight matches — which is greater than half of the group stage — six losses with a negative Net Run Rate of -1.361.

MI skipper Hardik Pandya won the toss and opted to bowl first. Trent Boult and Deepak Chahar reduced SRH to 35/5 in the primary innings. Heinrich Klaasen’s 71 (44) and Abhinav Manohar’s 43 (37) helped them reach 143/8. In reply, Rohit Sharma’s clinical 70 (46) and Suryakumar Yadav’s unbeaten 40 (19) made light work of the chase.

SRH’s possibilities of qualifying are quite low, and the Orange Army would wish an enormous comeback to make it possible. From the remaining six matches, they should win all to get to 16 points, which should give them opportunity to get into the top-four with no need an excessive amount of help of NRR calculations or other results going their way.

They may also qualify with 14 points or five wins, but that may be quite difficult and wish at the very least a couple of other results, out of their control, to go favorably.

“Abhinav and Klassy got us to total, but we couldn’t get through this innings. Needed a man to essentially regular the ship,” Pat Cummins said after the match. “You could have to construct your innings here, if you happen to face a couple of balls you possibly can catch up. The difference between our first game where we got 280 odd after which on the identical surface we got rolled over. In T20, the margins are also little or no, you’ll want to perform on the given day. (On the road ahead) Now we have a couple of away games now, it can be about assessing each wicket as quickly as possible. Some days it can be all-out attack, some days it can be about weighing our options,” he added.