In an enormous blow for the Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH), the star 34-year-old right-arm medium pacer Harshal Patel has been dominated out of the nineteenth match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 in opposition to the Gujarat Titans (GT) on Sunday, April 6.
The match between the Pat Cummins-led Sunrisers Hyderabad and the Shubman Gill-led Gujarat Titans is at present underway on the Rajiv Gandhi Worldwide Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad.
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Harshal Patel dominated out of the SRH vs GT conflict as a consequence of sickness.
Patel was acquired by Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) for INR 8 crore on the IPL 2025 public sale. Notably, the pacer had set his base value as INR 2 crore, and after a bidding conflict with Gujarat Titans and Punjab Kings, SRH secured his companies on the public sale.
Harshal Patel has been a starter within the Sunrisers Hyderabad enjoying XI however missed out on the match in opposition to the Gujarat Titans as a consequence of sickness. This improvement was confirmed by the SRH skipper Pat Cummins after he misplaced the toss.
Harshal Patel misses as he’s in poor health – Pat Cummins
Pat Cummins additionally revealed that they’ve added Jaydev Unadkat to the enjoying XI as a substitute for Harshal Patel.
“Harshal Patel misses as he’s in poor health, Jaydev Unadkat is available in,” the Sunrisers Hyderabad skipper Pat Cummins mentioned.
Within the 4 matches that Harshal Patel performed for the Sunrisers Hyderabad, he registered bowling figures of 1/43, 0/17, 1/28, and a couple of/34. He additionally did a terrific job on the sphere and grabbed a few sensational catches.
Do SRH must mood down the aggressive method?
The explosive batting unit of the Sunrisers Hyderabad has failed in back-to-back matches whereas making an attempt to play an ultra-aggressive model of cricket.
In a dialogue on ESPNcricinfo forward of the SRH vs GT conflict, the previous cricketer Mark Boucher was requested if the Pat Cummins-led facet ought to take into consideration firming down their aggressive method.
Replying to this, he mentioned that the batting unit of the Sunrisers Hyderabad and the coaches must have delicate conversations concerning this matter and must method issues positively. He elaborated:
“They’ve had an excellent report there and so they know find out how to play in these circumstances. So it must be a really delicate dialog that I feel that your batting coach and your coach could have in direction of their batters. I feel, you understand, you probably have a have a look at how the IPL is working, we have seen some good batsmanship round in sure circumstances.
“However I’d nonetheless have a look at the way in which that they’d method it’s to go on the market, say, pay attention, you understand, contemporary circumstances. We do not know the way the wicket’s going to play. Depend on the 2 openers to make a name on whether or not they really feel it is a good deck. In the event that they make that decision, then you have to again them as a training employees to go on the market and play the way in which that they know has been very profitable for them in Hyderabad. So I’d nonetheless, you understand, have these conversations.”
“Typically you have simply bought to put a seed in these batter’s heads. And I feel that upon getting these conversations, make them conscious of the, possibly the, be just a little bit essential about the way in which that they’ve gone about issues and their failures. With out being too adverse about it, I feel that that can put them in a greater area to make higher and smarter selections whereas they’re on the market.”
