SRH vs DC HIGHLIGHTS, IPL 2025: Match Called Off Due to Wet Outfield, Sunrisers Hyderabad Out Of Playoff Race

Both teams get a point each and last year's runners-up Sunrisers Hyderabad became the third team to be out of the IPL 2025 playoff race.

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Rain has stopped in Hyderabad.

Cut-off time to start a 5-over second innings/chase: 11.42 PM IST#TATAIPL | #SRHvDC https://t.co/riGJ2GptLR

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Rain has stopped and the Super Sopper is out. Umpires chatting with the groundsmen. Lots of water near the boundary's edge and also on the covers. 

Still raining unfortunately! The cut-off time for a five-over game is 11:42pm.

The rain has subsided a bit but it is quite steady. Small puddles have started to form on the outfield. 

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Start of the second innings of #SRHvDC has been delayed due to rain.

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The rain has gotten heavier in Hyderabad and the ground staff has covered the pitch. Bad news for the hosts as SRH will be knocked out of the playoffs race if this ends in a no result.

Delhi Capitals have posted a total of 133/7 in their 20 overs against Sunrisers Hyderabad in the IPL 2025 match 55 at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium.

Stubbs and Ashutosh have done a great job here as they take DC's score past 100. The duo has stitched a 50-run stand here for the seventh wicket. 10 runs came off the 18th over.

DC LIVE Score: 121/6 (18)

Wicket! Don't know what is happening here at the moment as DC continue to lose wickets. Unadkat has taken his first as he removes the dangerous KL Rahul for 10. Visitors are five down now. 

Wicket! Cummins is on fire at the moment and has taken his third wicket of the match in his third over. Porel went for a big short there but mis-timed it before Kishan took a magnificent catch. DC are three down now.

DC LIVE Score: 19/3 (5)

Wicket! Cummins strikes straight away, and SRH are off to a remarkable start at home. Karun Nair departs for 0 after getting dismissed on the first ball of the match,h with Ishan Kishan taking an easy catch.

DC LIVE Score: 3/1 (1)

"We'll bowl. We've talked about a few things, haven't had a complete game yet. Want to do the basics well. It's about giving yourself the chance, everyone's a match-winner. We bat very deep. The support has been amazing, probably haven't had the results we wanted, but the crowd has been amazing. Buzzing around in the field, that's one thing we can judge ourselves on," said the DC skipper.

"Would've fielded first as well. It looks like a good wicket, and it shouldn't change much. Will look to get a good score and restrict them. The last phase is here, and these are must-win games. We've tried to keep the environment light; we weren't thinking about these things at the start of the tournament, and we played well. want to go into these games with the same mindset and not let the situation pressure us. We've had different players contribute, we haven't been dependent on one player. It's important to continue the momentum. We want to have close games, even if we lose, we don't want to lose by big margins. Same combination, three seamers and three spinners," said the SRH skipper.

Sunrisers Hyderabad Impact Subs: Travis Head, Harsh Dubey, Rahul Chahar, Wiaan Mulder, Mohammed Shami

Delhi Capitals Impact Subs: Ashutosh Sharma, Jake Fraser McGurk, Sameer Rizvi, Mukesh Kumar, Mohit Sharma

Sunrisers Hyderabad (Playing XI): Abhishek Sharma, Ishan Kishan(w), Sachin Baby, Heinrich Klaasen, Aniket Verma, Abhinav Manohar, Pat Cummins(c), Harshal Patel, Jaydev Unadkat, Zeeshan Ansari, Eshan Malinga

Delhi Capitals (Playing XI): Faf du Plessis, Abishek Porel, Karun Nair, KL Rahul(w), Axar Patel(c), Tristan Stubbs, Vipraj Nigam, Mitchell Starc, Dushmantha Chameera, Kuldeep Yadav, T Natarajan

SRH: SRH have opted to move Mohammed Shami to the impact subs list while also dropping Kamindu Mendis and Nitish Kumar Reddy. Abhinav Manohar and Sachin Baby move into the playing XI.

DC: T Natarajan comes into the XI for the Capitals in place of Mukesh Kumar.

SRH won the toss and opted to bowl first against Delhi Capitals in the IPL 2025 match 55 at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium.

Sunrisers Hyderabad (9th position): Matches - 10, Wins - 3, Losses - 7, Points - 6

Delhi Capitals (5th position):  Matches - 10, Wins - 6, Losses - 5, Points - 12

Matches: 25

SRH won: 13

DC won: 12

No Result: 0

On the other hand, Sunrisers Hyderabad are out of the playoffs race already. The team is all but out of the playoff race after suffering a 38-run defeat against Gujarat Titans on Friday.

With DC having suffered three defeats in their last five matches, they would look to avoid any more hiccups at the business end of the tournament.

Delhi Capitals, currently placed fifth on the table with 12 points from 10 games, have in Axar a captain who has led the side from the front, and his absence -- or even a curtailed role -- could harm the team, given that they desperately need to find the winning ways after two successive losses on their home ground -- to KKR and RCB.

Axar suffered a bruise while fielding but despite the discomfort he smashed a 23-ball 43. However, the wound, if not fully healed could come in the way of the left-arm spinner bowling his full array of variations.

With Axar Patel nursing an injury -- he had walked off the field during KKR's batting after injuring his left hand on April 30 -- it remains to be seen if the charismatic all-rounder has recovered fully in the intervening period.

Hello and welcome to the live cricket coverage of match no. 55 of the Indian Premier League where Sunrisers Hyderabad will face Delhi Capitals at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad.