On Thursday, March 27, Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) and the Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) will square off in the seventh IPL 2025 encounter at Hyderabad’s Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium. SRH defeated Rajasthan Royals (RR) by 44 runs in a home match to start their IPL 2025 season. In contrast, LSG lost to the Delhi Capitals (DC) by one run in Visakhapatnam.
Sunrisers Hyderabad continued their success from the previous season by defeating RR by 286-6, the second-highest IPL total. Travis Head had another impressive showing with a hammering 67 off 31 balls, while Ishan Kishan made his franchise debut with an incredible 106* off 47 balls. Pacers Harshal Patel and Simarjeet Singh both took two wickets with the ball.
Against Delhi, the Lucknow Super Giants scored the first goal and amassed a commanding 209–8. Mitchell Marsh blasted 72 off 36, and Nicholas Pooran smashed 75 off 30. With seven runs scored, the Delhi Capitals lost their first three wickets while chasing 210. However, Ashutosh Sharma struck 66* off 31 to give DC a historic victory, and their bowlers were unable to stop him.
When Sunrisers Hyderabad plays the Lucknow Super Giants in the seventh IPL 2025 match, players from both teams could accomplish a variety of noteworthy milestones. Look at it.
1. Heinrich Klaasen is 39 runs away from completing 1,000 runs for SRH in IPL
SRH batsman Heinrich Klaasen needs 39 more runs to achieve 1,000 runs for his team in IPL matches. In his 29 matches for Sunrisers Hyderabad Klaasen has faced 961 balls and achieved 43.68 batting average and 155.58 strike rate for a total of 106 fifty scores.
No stopping this man when he's in his element 💥
Heinrich Klaasen | #PlayWithFire | #TATAIPL2025 pic.twitter.com/n0gzr0JP9X
— SunRisers Hyderabad (@SunRisers) March 26, 2025When Klaasen reaches his milestone he will join a seven-player list that has scored over 1000 runs for SRH in the IPL. Out of 95 matches David Warner leads the record books with 4,014 runs. Other names on the list include Shikhar Dhawan (2,518), Jonny Bairstow (1,038), Abhishek Sharma (1,338), Manish Pandey (1,345), and Kane Williamson (2,101).
2. David Miller 49 runs away from 3,000 IPL runs
During the 2012 IPL season David Miller entered professional play under the Punjab Kings (PBKS) squad. Miller has played 131 IPL games where he totaled 2,951 runs at a 36.43 average and a 139.26 strike rate with 131 half-century scores. During his first match for Lucknow Super Giants against Delhi Capitals the left-handed batter remained unbeaten with a score of 27 in nineteen balls.
If it’s in Miller’s arc… pic.twitter.com/cuZmUHy4Zl
— Lucknow Super Giants (@LucknowIPL) March 26, 2025Miller will reach 3,000 runs in the IPL if he gets 49 runs against Sunrisers Hyderabad on Thursday. 950 of his 2,951 runs, at an average of 45.23 and a strike rate of 145.25, have come for Gujarat Titans (GT) in 41 games. The 35-year-old has amassed 11,217 runs from 520 games in his T20 career, averaging 35.27 and striking at 137.90.
3. Harshal Patel 4 wickets away from 250 T20 scalps
In a high-scoring game against the Rajasthan Royals, right-arm bowler Harshal made an outstanding debut for SRH, recording figures of 2-34. He took Shimron Hetmyer and Sanju Samson’s significant scalps. With the two scalps, he now has 246 T20 wickets. In T20 cricket, the 34-year-old currently needs four wickets to reach 250.
The right-arm bowler has taken 246 wickets at an average of 23.09 and an economy rate of 8.34 in 200 games thus far, including three four-fers and two five-fers. With a best of 5-27, he has taken 137 of his T20 wickets in 107 IPL games at an average of 23.23 and an economy rate of 8.74.
4. Shardul Thakur needs 4 scalps to complete 100 IPL wickets
Shardul Thakur joined LSG as a replacement for Mohsin Khan after surviving the IPL 2025 auction before becoming a part of LSGs lineup against Delhi Capitals. Shardul Thakur started his performance in the first Delhi Capitals match by dismissing Abishek Porel and Jake Fraser-McGurk during the first over of their innings.
With four more IPL wickets Thakur will achieve hundred wickets in this league. The right-arm batsman has reached 96 wickets in 96 games averaging 30.08 with economy at 9.22 and his best performance is 4-36. Thakur secured 60 wickets out of his total 96 wickets for the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) within 57 matches delivering averages of 30.38 runs and economy rates of 9.09.
