Pat Cummins openly blames Travis Head & others’ 'wrong shots' for SRH’s loss to DC

Under the leadership of Pat Cummins, Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) took on the Axar Patel-led Delhi Capitals (DC) in the 10th match of the IPL 2025 on Sunday, March 30.

Pat Cummins-led Sunrisers Hyderabad lost the match against the Delhi Capitals by 7 wickets at the Dr YSR ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium in Visakhapatnam.

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We didn't get going, didn't get a score on the board - Pat Cummins

Batting first in the match, SRH's power-packed batting unit failed and they ended up with just 163 runs on the board. Defending the total, the bowlers were unable to do much and the run-chase was completed in the 16th over.

Speaking after the match, SRH skipper Pat Cummins expressed his disappointment over the poor performance of the batters and mentioned their wrong shot selections. He stated:

"We didn't get going, didn't get a score on the board. A few wrong shots, but catches in the deep does happen in this format of the game.

"I don't think it's a big margin, on another day, you get going with a couple of shots, not everything went our way in the last two games, we can look back and think about different options."

Coming into the tournament, everyone was super impressed with him - Pat Cummins on Aniket Verma

Pat Cummins also showered rich praise on Aniket Verma for his sensational innings of 74 runs and said that he impressed everyone in the team management heading into the tournament. He said:

"Coming into the tournament, everyone was super impressed with him going into the lead-up to the tournament (on Aniket Verma), was fantastic and gave us half a chance, was impressive with the way he went about things (during the net sessions and practice games).

Pat Cummins was also not worried after the back-to-back losses of his team. He elaborated:

"It's too early to worry about being two down, hopefully we'll get back going forward, as I said, we need to have a look at a few of our options."

What happened in the previous IPL match between DC and SRH?

In their last IPL clash, Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) defeated Delhi Capitals (DC) by 67 runs in a high-scoring encounter at the Arun Jaitley Stadium.

Batting first, SRH posted a mammoth total of 266/7 on the board, riding on a blistering 32-ball 89 from Travis Head and a 12-ball 46 from Abhishek Sharma.

For Delhi Capitals, Kuldeep Yadav (4/55) and Axar Patel (1/29) managed to bring some control, but Shahbaz Ahmed (59* off 29) ensured SRH finished strong.

Chasing the huge target, DC got off to a promising start, thanks to a whirlwind 18-ball 65 from Jake Fraser-McGurk. They reached 88/2 in the powerplay but lost momentum as wickets fell at regular intervals.

Rishabh Pant (44 off 35) and Abishek Porel (42 off 22) fought hard, but T Natarajan (4/19) and other SRH bowlers dismantled DC’s batting unit and the hosts were bowled out for 199 in 19.1 overs.