Match overview
Lucknow Super Giants chased down 191 to beat Sunrisers Hyderabad by 5 wickets at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad on 27 March 2025. Lucknow won the toss and chose to field, then answered SRH's total of 190/9 with a composed chase that was largely decided in the powerplay. A first-six-overs return of 77/1 gave LSG a platform well above the ground's historical average, and they rarely looked troubled after that. Shardul Thakur was named Player of the Match as Lucknow completed a five-wicket win with runs to spare.
Sunrisers Hyderabad had shown early promise in their innings, hitting 62/2 in the powerplay and adding 81 runs across the middle overs. The collapse in the death phase, four wickets falling for 47 runs, left them on 190/9: a competitive score at any other ground, but fractionally below the Rajiv Gandhi Stadium's average first-innings total of 192 across 104 IPL matches. On a surface that tends to hold up for batting, that small shortfall proved significant.
The result extends Lucknow Super Giants' head-to-head lead to five wins from seven meetings. Three of LSG's five victories in this fixture have now come at Hyderabad, and this chase reinforced a pattern that is becoming difficult for SRH to ignore on home soil.
Venue and conditions
The Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium has hosted 104 T20 matches, and the numbers tell a moderately chase-friendly story. The average first-innings score is 192, the average second-innings score 179, and teams batting second have won 54 per cent of the time. The gap between first and second-innings averages is relatively narrow, which means totals in the 185–195 range are genuinely competitive rather than automatic wins for the team batting first.
Powerplay scoring at this ground averages 43 runs, which makes LSG's 77/1 in the first six overs particularly striking. When a chasing side exceeds that average by more than 30 runs without losing early wickets, they have effectively taken the contest away from the bowling team before the middle phase begins. Death-overs scoring averages 40 runs at the venue; SRH's 47 in that phase was above average, but the wickets they lost there undermined the impact of those runs.
The toss-field rate sits at 49 per cent, suggesting conditions don't strongly favour either decision. Lucknow's choice to field first after winning the toss aligned with the ground's slight chase bias rather than any overwhelming structural advantage.
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Recent form
Sunrisers Hyderabad arrived at this match on mixed form. Their most recent result was a 2025 win over Rajasthan Royals, but that followed defeats to Kolkata Knight Riders in two of their last five fixtures and a split record in that stretch of three wins and two losses. SRH's form over the past two IPL cycles shows a side capable of big wins, including a 10-wicket thrashing of Lucknow in 2024, but not one that strings together consistent runs.
Lucknow Super Giants came into this game having lost to Delhi Capitals in their most recent 2025 outing, and their broader recent record includes three defeats from five matches. The head-to-head loss to SRH in 2024 and back-to-back losses to Delhi Capitals and Kolkata Knight Riders earlier in the cycle pointed to a side that has struggled for consistency. Winning this chase, and winning it convincingly, will do more for LSG's confidence than the recent results might have suggested was coming.
