IPL 2025: Gujarat Titans look to bounce back against Sunrisers Hyderabad

Ahmedabad:Gujarat Titans would want to forget in a hurry 14-year-old Vaibhav Suryavanshi’s Monday night onslaught — which resulted in an eight-wicket loss to Rajasthan Royals — and aim to bounce back in their home clash against Sunrisers Hyderabad here on Friday.
A win will keep GT’s playoff hopes alive while Sunrisers will have to depend on other results to progress even if they triumph.

While Suryavanshi captured the world’s imagination with his exploits with the bat, GT’s approach was questionable. Their template of a risk-free powerplay before going all out in the final overs yielded them a total in excess of 200, but it was not enough.
The Titans have always taken cues from how their opponents bowl in the first innings and manoeuvred their lengths to strangulate their opponents while chasing. However, in Jaipur, they were undone by the fearlessness and audacious strokeplay of Suryavanshi.

In Abhishek Sharma and Travis Head, SRH possess a fearless, dynamic opening duo which can take the attack to the bowlers. Ishan Kishan, Heinrich Klaasen, and Aniket Verma form the middle order which has only fired sporadically this season.