Today IPL Match SRH vs RR: Dream 11 Team Prediction, head to head stats, key players, pitch report, weather of IPL 2025

Sunrisers Hyderabad will open their campaign against Rajasthan Royals in the second match of the Indian Premier League season 18 today. It is the first double-header of IPL 2025 with the evening fixture taking place at Chepauk between Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians. Before that, though, the focus will be on the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad.
Sunrisers have some of the most explosive batters in their line-up in Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Ishan Kishan and Heinrich Klaasen, and with a belter of a track likely to offer, they would fancy a massive total in the afternoon match.
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Sunrisers posted 250-plus totals three times last season, including 287 against Royal Challengers Bengaluru in an away match and 277 against Mumbai Indians at home. The explosive duo of Abhishek and Head scored the highest IPL powerplay total of 125 against Delhi Capitals in the third instance when they posted 266.

In fact, if any team can get to the much talked about 300-run total after batting first, it is Sunrisers that is expected to achieve the feat with the firepower they have.
Rajasthan are under new leadership with Riyan Parag having been named as the stand-in captain for the first three matches as full-time skipper Sanju Samson is still recovering from an injury.
Samson, though not cleared to wicketkeeper or field yet, can still play a part as a specialist batter.


The batting-friendly pitches at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium produced explosive hitting last season. With Sunrisers retaining their core power-hitters and Rajasthan fielding a formidable top order, fans can brace for another high-scoring spectacle. This ground has been a record-breaking arena over the past year, and more fireworks seem inevitable.


SRH Predicted Playing XI: Abhishek Sharma, Travis Head, Ishan Kishan, Nitish Reddy, Heinrich Klaasen, Abhinav Manohar, Sachin Baby/Aniket Verma, Pat Cummins, Harshal Patel, Adam Zampa, Mohammed Shami.
Impact Sub: Rahul Chahar/Jaydev Unadkat.
RR Predicted Playing XI: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sanju Samson, Nitish Rana, Riyan Parag, Shimron Hetmyer, Dhruv Jurel (wk), Shubham Dubey, Wanindu Hasaranga, Jofra Archer, Sandeep Sharma, Fazalhaq Farooqi.
Impact Sub: Kumar Kartikeya/Tushar Deshpande.
Sunrisers Hyderabad: Abhishek Sharma, Travis Head, Ishan Kishan, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Heinrich Klaasen(w), Abhinav Manohar, Sachin Baby, Pat Cummins(c), Harshal Patel, Adam Zampa, Mohammed Shami, Rahul Chahar, Jaydev Unadkat, Kamindu Mendis, Zeeshan Ansari, Wiaan Mulder, Atharva Taide, Simarjeet Singh, Eshan Malinga, Aniket Verma.
Rajasthan Royals: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sanju Samson, Nitish Rana, Riyan Parag(c), Shimron Hetmyer, Dhruv Jurel(w), Shubham Dubey, Wanindu Hasaranga, Jofra Archer, Tushar Deshpande, Sandeep Sharma, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Kumar Kartikeya, Akash Madhwal, Yudhvir Singh Charak, Maheesh Theekshana, Kwena Maphaka, Ashok Sharma, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Kunal Singh Rathore.


Sunrisers Hyderabad and Rajasthan Royals have squared off 20 times in IPL history. SRH have won 11 of them and RR have gone past the winning line in nine. SRH did the double over RR last season.
Sunrisers and Royals played two games against each other last season. Sunrisers won both the games and will be confident of maintaining their supremacy over the Rajasthan-based outfit.
The first meeting was in the league stage when the Sunrisers prevailed by just one run.
Sunrisers and Royals finished at the second and third positions respectively after the league stage and they faced against each other once again in the qualifier 2.
Sunrisers won that game with ease, beating the Royals by 36 runs to qualify for the final which they lost to Kolkata Knight Riders.

The India Meteorological Department has forecast thunderstorms and gusty winds (30-40 kmph) and issued a yellow warning for Telangana and Hyderabad this weekend. However, conditions in the city appear to be clearing up, with afternoon temperatures expected to climb into the mid-30s Celsius.
(with inputs)