IPL 2025: Where will Ishan Kishan fit in SRH’s power-packed batting unit?
Rajasthan Royals’ stand-in skipper Riyan Parag had recalled in a YouTube show how Sunrisers Hyderabad’s feat of scoring 135 runs just in the Powerplay left his team stunned. ‘What the hell is going on?’ was how he described it. It wasn’t a one-off with SRH last year, they would do such breathtaking feats in the powerplay more than once and credit for those meteoric starts went largely to Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma.
The brothers of destruction have created so much havoc that the parameters of what a good T20 score against SRH would be measured differently. The magic mark of 300, which used to take quite a bit of work in a 50-over format, becomes a curiosity this year, whether it can be breached by this side in just T20 overs. In IPL 2024, 266/7 is how far SRH would go. And for IPL 2025...