DC vs SRH, IPL 2025 Highlights: Delhi thrash Hyderabad by seven wickets

DC vs SRH Live Score, IPL 2025, Delhi Capitals vs Sunrisers Hyderabad: This powerplay has not gone well at all for SRH. Nitish Kumar Reddy backs away, he had been given two proper high pace deliveries by Starc before this, one of which went for five wides. But Starc takes the pace off this time, Reddy is outfoxed. He goes for a big one off side, ends up skying that shot and is caught at mid-on.

Reddy c Patel b Starc 0 (2)

SRH 25/3 in 2.3 overs

DC vs SRH Live Score, IPL 2025, Delhi Capitals vs Sunrisers Hyderabad: He is gone for a single-digit score again. Starc goes short and wide, Kishan slashes hard. The ball goes to deep backward point where Stubbs takes a sharp catch over his head.

Kishan c Stubbs b Starc 2 (5)

SRH 20/2 in 2.1 overs

DC vs SRH Live Score, IPL 2025, Delhi Capitals vs Sunrisers Hyderabad: Four singles and a wide first five balls of that over by Mukesh Kumar, with a big appeal for LBW coming off the fourth ball against Ishan Kishan. The umpire shook his head and DC took the review. It was pitching outside leg and so that is a review lost for DC. Then Head flicks the last ball from Mukesh through short fine leg for four.

SRH 20/1 in 2 overs

DC vs SRH Live Score, IPL 2025, Delhi Capitals vs Sunrisers Hyderabad: Some dozy cricket from Abhishek. Abhishek takes a single first ball and then Head hits his Australia teammate for back to back fours off the second and third balls. They run two off the fourth and Head almost chops on to his own stumps off the next. Head went for the single, Abhishek seemed to hesitate in the beginning but continued running. He was ambling along even as the throw came in.

Abhishek Sharma run out (Nigam) 1 (1)

SRH 11/1 in 0.5 overs

DC vs SRH Live Score, IPL 2025, Delhi Capitals vs Sunrisers Hyderabad: All right then, the players are out there. Mitchell Starc bowling the first over, Abhishek Sharma on strike, Travis Head at the other end. It is indeed KL Rahul who has the gloves for DC.

DC vs SRH Live Score, IPL 2025, Delhi Capitals vs Sunrisers Hyderabad: Pat Cummins: We'll have a bat. Afternoon game, tends to be hot. Looks like a good wicket, put a big score hopefully. That was the trend last year - we put on some big scores. So, playing to our strengths. We weren't too worried either way. Playing the way we do, you got to accept that some games it's not going to work out. One positive from the last game is we were a long way from our best, few things went wrong and we still got almost 200 runs. The boys are still positive. so keen to get out there. Zeeshan comes in for Simarjeet.

Axar Patel: We would have batted as well as it's an afternoon game. In the last game, the ball was doing more in the second innings. We'll look to restrict them to a low total. We have played one game here, we were working on our plans based on our opponents. We need to be brave as a bowling unit. We have certain plans and we have an aggressive mindset. One change, Sameer Rizvi is out, KL Rahul is in.

DC vs SRH Live Score, IPL 2025, Delhi Capitals vs Sunrisers Hyderabad: Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Ishan Kishan, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Heinrich Klaasen(w), Aniket Verma, Abhinav Manohar, Pat Cummins(c), Zeeshan Ansari, Harshal Patel, Mohammed Shami

Impact players: Sachin Baby, Eshan Malinga, Simarjeet Singh, Adam Zampa Wiaan Mulder

DC vs SRH Live Score, IPL 2025, Delhi Capitals vs Sunrisers Hyderabad: Jake Fraser-McGurk, Faf du Plessis, Abishek Porel(w), KL Rahul, Axar Patel(c), Tristan Stubbs, Vipraj Nigam, Mitchell Starc, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohit Sharma, Mukesh Kumar

Impact subs: Karun Nair, Ashutosh Sharma, Sameer Rizvi, Donovan Ferreira Tripurana Vijay

DC vs SRH Live Score, IPL 2025, Delhi Capitals vs Sunrisers Hyderabad: Pat Cummins has won it and SRH are batting first.

DC vs SRH Live Score, IPL 2025, Delhi Capitals vs Sunrisers Hyderabad: Abhishek Sharma welcomed Kuldeep Yadav in the fiest game between DC and SRH last season by blasting him for four sixes in his first seven balls. However, Kuldeep went on to dismiss him, Travis Head, Aiden Markram and Nitish Kumar Reddy. SRH did win that match but they would be wary of Kuldeep's prowess today.

DC vs SRH Live Score, IPL 2025, Delhi Capitals vs Sunrisers Hyderabad: This is interesting. It had been widely expected that Abhishek Porel will keep the gloves even with Rahul in the squad but we can see the former LSG captain doing some wicketkeeping drills during the warm-up. Does that mean there is going to be a bigger change of personnel than just Rahul replacing Rizvi?

DC vs SRH Live Score, IPL 2025, Delhi Capitals vs Sunrisers Hyderabad: Considering Rahul's tendency to get stuck in T20s, DC really run the danger of not giving him a clear role. It is expected that he will play at No.4 but DC's entire batting order looked quite wobbly in that last game. Ashutosh Sharma did play a miracle knock to take them to victory but they needed something as outlandish as that to get even close to challenging LSG in the first place. Will the fare much better today?

DC vs SRH Live Score, IPL 2025, Delhi Capitals vs Sunrisers Hyderabad: Jaker Fraser-McGurk pretty much burst onto the scene in the IPL last year but he has had little joy since. The young Australian scored 330 runs in nine innings in IPL 2024 at a strike rate of 234.04 and averaged 36.66. Since then, he has scored only 382 runs in 24 T20 innings, at a strike rate of 136.91 with an average of 15.91.

DC vs SRH Live Score, IPL 2025, Delhi Capitals vs Sunrisers Hyderabad: The first half of 2025 has been good to KL Rahul. He hasn't got injured, an important point considering how his career has gone so far, and he has shown just how important he is to India in Tests and ODIs. With T20s, though, there is the baggage of slow past innings that Rahul is carrying and his stats in the IPL reflect that. Rahul has scored 4638 runs in 132 IPL matches but that has come at a strike rate of 134.60.

DC vs SRH Live Score, IPL 2025, Delhi Capitals vs Sunrisers Hyderabad: Abhishek Sharma has the best strike-rate (197.3) against spin in IPL since 2023 among all the batters who have faced at least 100 balls.

DC vs SRH Live Score, IPL 2025, Delhi Capitals vs Sunrisers Hyderabad: Nice bright sunshine today, not a cloud in sight. No rain expected at all and it will be quite hot until say around 5pm, at which point the evening breeze should become and provide some respite to the players.

DC vs SRH Live Score, IPL 2025, Delhi Capitals vs Sunrisers Hyderabad: Drama has been the keyword in Ishan Kishan's career in the past year and a half and a new entry was made in that bracket when he made his SRH debut against RR this season. Facing a side coached by Rahul Dravid, who was India's head coach when Kishan's central contract was shredded to pieces, he smashed an unbeaten 106 off 47 balls to lead SRH to a cool 286/6. If this is how he is going to go about his business this season, it will be pretty difficult for India to not let him back in through those dressing doors.

DC vs SRH Live Score, IPL 2025, Delhi Capitals vs Sunrisers Hyderabad: Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma didn't like facing Mitchell Starc one bit during the qualifier and the final last season. Head was dismissed for a two-ball duck in the first qualifier and so he let Abhishek face up against Starc in the final and well, the latter ended up bamboozlig the SRH opener with the ball of the tournament.

DC vs SRH Live Score, IPL 2025, Delhi Capitals vs Sunrisers Hyderabad: They were chasing 210 and they lost half their side within the first seven overs for 65 runs. And yet, DC somehow beat LSG with one wicket and three balls to spare. That is because their lower order finisher extraordinaire Ashutosh Sharma smashed an unbeaten 66 in 31 balls. He had made a name for himself doing similar things for Punjab Kings last season and yet, puzzlingly, they let him go. Now he seems set to show at DC that last season was no fluke after all and there are now calls coming asking for him to get a look-in at the international level.

DC vs SRH Live Score, IPL 2025, Delhi Capitals vs Sunrisers Hyderabad: This is officially DC's home and well, they did have a lot of support when Ashutosh Sharma dramatically turned things around to power them to victory in their previous match. But it will be interesting to see what happens today considering SRH have local hero Nitish Kumar Reddy in their lineup.

DC vs SRH Live Score, IPL 2025, Delhi Capitals vs Sunrisers Hyderabad: SRH lead he head to head records between these two but not by much.

DC vs SRH Live Score, IPL 2025, Delhi Capitals vs Sunrisers Hyderabad: He was in the nets for DC and is surely set to make his debut now. He should be slotting it at No.4, with Sameer Rizvi set to make way. It remains to be seen whether he will keep wickets though.

DC vs SRH Live Score, IPL 2025, Delhi Capitals vs Sunrisers Hyderabad: Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Ishan Kishan, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Heinrich Klaasen(w), Aniket Verma, Abhinav Manohar, Pat Cummins(c), Harshal Patel, Mohammed Shami, Simarjeet Singh, Adam Zampa, Sachin Baby, Jaydev Unadkat, Zeeshan Ansari, Wiaan Mulder, Kamindu Mendis, Rahul Chahar, Atharva Taide, Eshan Malinga

DC vs SRH Live Score, IPL 2025, Delhi Capitals vs Sunrisers Hyderabad: Jake Fraser-McGurk, Faf du Plessis, Abishek Porel(w), Sameer Rizvi, Axar Patel(c), Tristan Stubbs, Ashutosh Sharma, Vipraj Nigam, Mitchell Starc, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohit Sharma, Mukesh Kumar, Karun Nair, Donovan Ferreira, Tripurana Vijay, Darshan Nalkande, Dushmantha Chameera, KL Rahul, T Natarajan, Ajay Jadav Mandal, Manvanth Kumar L, Madhav Tiwari

DC vs SRH Live Score, IPL 2025, Delhi Capitals vs Sunrisers Hyderabad: SRH have thrown down the gauntlet for the season once again but it will be interesting to see how they fare now that they have been taken out of their natural setting. DC, on the other hand, have a KL Rahul-shaped addition coming their way.