The 2025 season was the 13th season for the Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket franchise Sunrisers Hyderabad. They were one of the ten teams that competed in the 2025 IPL. The team was captained by Pat Cummins and coached by Daniel Vettori.
Sunrisers Hyderabad were the third team to be eliminated from the 2025 IPL and finished the season in sixth place with six wins from 14 matches. Heinrich Klaasen scored the most runs (487) while captain Cummins and Harshal Patel took the most wickets (16 each) for Hyderabad in the 2025 season.
Pre-season
The 2025 Indian Premier League was the 18th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL), a professional Twenty20 (T20) cricket league, organised by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). Sunrisers Hyderabad had previously won the title once in 2016. They were the runners-up in the previous season. The tournament featured ten teams competing in 74 matches from 22 March to 3 June 2025. Hyderabad played all their home matches at Rajiv Gandhi Stadium, except for the last one, which was moved to Arun Jaitley Cricket Stadium following the IPL's suspension and rescheduling.
Player Retention Franchises were allowed to retain a maximum of six players from their squad, including a maximum of five recent international players. Franchises were required to submit their retention lists before 31 October 2024. Hyderabad retained five players, including captain Pat Cummins.
+ Retained players No. Player Salary 1 Heinrich Klaasen 2 Pat Cummins 3 Abhishek Sharma 4 Travis Head 5 Nitish Kumar Reddy
+ Released players Batters Wicket-keepers All-rounders Fast bowlers Spin bowlers Aiden Markram Rahul Tripathi Glenn Phillips Mayank Agarwal Anmolpreet Singh Upendra Yadav Abdul Samad Marco Jansen Shahbaz Ahmed Washington Sundar Sanvir Singh Akash Singh Bhuvneshwar Kumar Fazalhaq Farooqi T Natarajan Umran Malik Jaydev Unadkat Wanindu Hasaranga Mayank Markande Jhathavedh Subramanyan Vijayakanth Viyaskanth
Auction The season's auction took place on 24 and 25 November 2024 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The auction purse for each franchise was set at , with the franchises being deducted an amount from the purse for each retained player. Hyderabad had a purse remaining of . Franchises that did not retain six players, were allowed Right-to-Match (RTM) cards at the auction for each player not retained. Hyderabad had one card available. Hyderabad bought fifteen players in the auction, including eight capped players and four overseas players. Hyderabad did not use their RTM card in the auction.
Squad Players with international caps as of start of 2025 IPL are listed in bold. Ages are as of . Withdrawn players are indicated by a dagger symbol () and placed at the bottom of the table.
+ Sunrisers Hyderabad squad for the 2025 Indian Premier League S/N Name Nationality Birth date Batting style Bowling style Salary Notes 4 Abhishek Sharma Left-handed Left-arm orthodox 7 Harsh Dubey Left-handed Left-arm orthodox Replacement 8 Nitish Kumar Reddy Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast 11 Mohammed Shami Right-handed Right arm medium-fast 14 Sachin Baby Left-handed Right-arm off break 18 Abhinav Manohar Right-handed Right-arm leg break 21 Kamindu Mendis Right-handed Right-arm off break Overseas 24 Wiaan Mulder Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast Overseas; replacement 30 Pat Cummins Right-handed Right arm fast Captain; overseas 32 Ishan Kishan Left-handed 45 Heinrich Klaasen Right-handed Right-arm off spin Overseas 47 Aniket Verma Right-handed Right arm medium-fast 55 Rahul Chahar Right-handed Right-arm leg break 57 Atharva Taide Left-handed Left-arm orthodox 62 Travis Head Left-handed Right-arm off break Overseas 68 Harshal Patel Right-handed Right arm medium-fast 89 Simarjeet Singh Right-handed Right arm medium-fast 91 Jaydev Unadkat Right-handed Left-arm medium-fast 99 Zeeshan Ansari Right-handed Right-arm leg break 100 Eshan Malinga Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium Overseas 10 Smaran Ravichandran Left-handed Right-arm off break Replacement; withdrawn 88 Adam Zampa Right-handed Right arm leg spin Overseas; withdrawn Brydon Carse Right-handed Right-arm fast Overseas; withdrawn
Support staff Hemang Badani left the squad from a batting coach role while James Franklin joined as a bowling coach replacing Dale Steyn.
Position Name Head coach Daniel Vettori Bowling coach Muttiah MuralitharanJames Franklin Fielding coach Ryan Cook Source: Wisden
League stage Sunsrisers Hyderabad began their season with a win against Rajasthan Royals. They lost their next four matches to Lucknow Super Giants, Delhi Capitals, Kolkata Knight Riders and Gujarat Titans; won against Punjab Kings, lost to Mumbai Indians twice, won against Chennai Super Kings and lost to Gujarat. Following their abandoned match against Delhi due to rain, Hyderabad were eliminated from the 2025 IPL. Hyderabad won their last three matches of the season against Lucknow, Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Kolkata.
Points table
League progression
Fixtures
Statistics
At the IPL end of season awards, Kamindu Mendis was awarded for catch of the season.
+ Most runs Runs Player 487 Heinrich Klaasen 439 Abhishek Sharma 374 Travis Head 354 Ishan Kishan 236 Aniket Verma + Most wickets Wickets Player 16 Pat Cummins 16 Harshal Patel 13 Eshan Malinga 11 Jaydev Unadkat 6 Zeeshan Ansari
References Original 2025 IPL Schedule vs Revised 2025 IPL Schedule
General references
External links
Sunrisers Hyderabad at IPLT20.com