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Sunrisers Hyderabad succummed to yet another away loss on Thursday after being handed a 4-wicket defeat by MI at the Wankhede stadium. SRH have won only two out of seven games that they have played so far. Both those victories have come at their home ground – Hyderabad.

SRH’s away curse continues

SRH have played three matches at away venues so far and have been defeated on all three occasions. Cummins and co. lost to DC by 7 wickets in their first away game in Vishakhapatanam. Next, they were handed a mammoth 80-run defeat by defending champions KKR at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata. The loss to MI in Mumbai on Thursday marked the third time that SRH were defeated in an away game in IPL 2025.

SRH are yet to open their account in terms of winning away games. The loss to MI has now left the IPL 2024 runners-up in the penultimate position on the points table. The narrowly missed out on securing the bottom place, thanks to MI taking their time to finish the game.

What happened in yesterday’s MI vs SRH IPL match?

Only a few days ago, SRH chased down 242 against Punjab Kings. But their batters, barring Abhishek Sharma, struggled throughout the game against MI, while their bowlers could not dominate Mumbai on a slow pitch despite setting a 163-run target.

Abhishek Sharma and Travis Head gave SRH a slow start on a difficult Mumbai pitch. The two slogged it to 46/0 in the powerplay. While Abhishek still took advantage of the powerplay, scoring 28-ball 40, they struggled in the middle-overs, scoring only 59 runs. Thanks to Heinrich Klaasen’s 20-run hammering of Deepak Chahar and Aniket Verma’s brisk 8-ball 18, SRH posted 162/5.