Matthew Hayden feels that Sunrisers Hyderabad may have started to doubt their own aggressive approach during the IPL 2025 season. After starting off with a bang by posting 286 runs in their first game against RR, SRH have struggled this season and lost 6 out of their 9 matches so far.
A first win at Chepauk against CSK came at the right time for Pat Cummins and his side as they can still make it to the play-offs, if they can win all their remaining matches. SRH had a mini-vacation recently as they went to the Maldives and Hayden, while talking to Star Sport, said that it might be the break that they needed.
The former Aussie opener claimed that everyone thought SRH will continue to score big in the IPL and feels that the methods were questioned within the Hyderabad camp itself.
Hayden feels that trip to Maldives could be the recaliberation that was needed by SRH before their next five games.
“There’s something healing about going to the Maldives. Yeah, well, they’ve had a bit of a break and breather, and that can maybe just reset, recalibrate, refocus, because they were the side we were thinking, gosh, these guys are going to be extraordinary with the bat.”
“Haven’t done that, have they? Haven’t quite been on the mark. I get a feeling that they actually start to doubt the way that they go about it.”
“They started to think, that 280 is not sustainable. And maybe that little recalibration drifting away aimlessly in the Indian Ocean, and put them back on centre again,” said Hayden.
‘SRH were the most attractive team last year’
Sunil Gavaskar, who was also part of the interaction, said that SRH were the most attractive team in the IPL last year due to their explosive batting. However, Gavaskar feels that SRH can turnaround things in the next few games, especially if Travishek starts to click.
“They were the most attractive team last year because everybody wanted to see how Travis Head and Abhishek were thrashing the bowling about. They’ve done it a couple of times, but they haven’t done it as consistently as last year, and that’s why they are struggling to get off the board in the knockouts.”
“But who knows, in the next 3 games, they win all their matches, they get off to the kind of start that they’ve got from Head and Abhishek and they could post 200+ scores and any time a team posts 200+ scores, that’s difficult to chase,” said Gavaskar.
SRH will face GT in Ahmedabad on May 2.
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