The 68th match of the ongoing IPL 2025 will be played between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Kolkata Knight Riders. This match will be played on May 25 at the Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi. The match will kick start at 7:30 PM IST. Both teams played each other on April 3 and KKR won that game. The last year’s finalists are no longer eligible to qualify for the playoffs.
SRH vs KKR: Predicted Playing XI
This is the best possible playing XI for the match. The playing XI is expected to be the same unless the pitch demands other players to be included. However, there is an impact player rule which makes one of these players be replaced during the game.
| Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) | Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) |
|---|---|
| Rahmanullah Gurbaz (✈️)(W) | Abhishek Sharma |
| Sunil Narine (✈️) | Travis Head (✈️) |
| Ajinkya Rahane (C) | Ishan Kishan (W) |
| Angkrish Raghuvanshi | Nitish Kumar Reddy |
| Manish Pandey | Heinrich Klaasen (✈️) |
| Andre Russell (✈️) | Aniket Verma |
| Rinku Singh | Abhinav Manohar |
| Moeen Ali (✈️) | Pat Cummins (C) (✈️) |
| Ramandeep Singh | Harshal Patel |
| Vaibhav Arora | Jaydev Unadkat |
| Varun Chakaravarthy | Eshan Malinga (✈️) |
SRH vs KKR Squad
| Sunrisers Hyderabad | Kolkata Knight Riders |
|---|---|
| Travis Head ✈️ – Top order Batter | Ajinkya Rahane (C) – Top Order Batter |
| Ishan Kishan – Wicketkeeper Batter | Quinton de Kock (WK) ✈️ – Wicketkeeper Batter |
| Heinrich Klaasen ✈️ – Wicketkeeper Batter | Manish Pandey – Top Order Batter |
| Sachin Baby – Batter | Rovman Powell ✈️ – Middle Order Batter |
| Ravichandran Smaran – Batter | Angkrish Raghuvanshi – Top Order Batter |
| Aniket Verma – Batter | Rahmanullah Gurbaz (WK) ✈️ – Wicketkeeper Batter |
| Abhishek Sharma – Batting Allrounder | Ramandeep Singh – Middle Order Batter |
| Abhinav Manohar – Batting Allrounder | Rinku Singh – Middle Order Batter |
| Kamindu Mendis ✈️ – Allrounder | Luvnith Sisodia (WK) – Wicketkeeper Batter |
| Wiaan Mulder ✈️ – Allrounder | Venkatesh Iyer (VC) – Allrounder |
| Nitish Kumar Reddy – Batting Allrounder | Moeen Ali ✈️ – Batting Allrounder |
| Atharva Taide – Batting Allrounder | Sunil Narine ✈️ – Bowling Allrounder |
| Brydon Carse ✈️ – Bowling Allrounder (Withdrawn) | Anukul Roy – Allrounder |
| Pat Cummins ✈️ – Bowler (c) | Andre Russell ✈️ – Allrounder |
| Rahul Chahar – Bowler | Vaibhav Arora – Bowler |
| Eshan Malinga – Bowler | Harshit Rana – Bowler |
| Mohammed Shami – Bowler | Spencer Johnson ✈️ – Bowler |
| Harshal Patel – Bowler | Mayank Markande – Bowler |
| Simarjeet Singh – Bowler | Anrich Nortje ✈️ – Bowler |
| Jaydev Unadkat – Bowler | Chetan Sakariya – Bowler |
| Zeeshan Ansari – Bowler | Varun Chakravarthy – Bowler |
| Adam Zampa ✈️ – Bowler (Withdrawn) | Umran Malik – Withdrawn Bowler |
SRH vs KKR 2025: Injury Updates
Kolkata Knight Riders: The team is free of injuries and all their players are available to play.
Sunrisers Hyderabad: The team is free of injuries and all their players are available to play.
