<p>Hyderabad: Heinrich Klaasen's measured 71 and Abhinav Manohar's 43 rescued a listless Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) from a terrible start and guided them to 143/8 against Mumbai Indians in (MI) their Indian Premier League (IPL) match here on Wednesday.</p><p>SRH suffered an embarrassing batting collapse to slip to 35 for five in the first half before Klaasen took charge to avoid a complete disintegration.</p><p>Klaasen struck nine fours and two sixes for his 44-ball 71, putting on 99 for the sixth wicket with impact substitute Abhinav Manohar, who played a steady second fiddle with his 37-ball 43 (2x4s, 3x6s).</p>.IPL 2025 | MI win toss and elect to bowl against SRH; both teams to wear black armbands to mourn Pahalgam victims.<p>But it was a harrowing start for SRH who are placed second-last on the points table and face an uphill battle to keep themselves alive.</p><p>The lack of confidence was evident when SRH's top-order crumbled without any apparent pressure on a dry, hard and flat deck.</p><p>Instead of putting pressure on the MI bowlers, SRH presented a meek batting show, which was compounded by a reckless decision from Ishan Kishan (1) who walked back despite not having edged one behind the stumps.</p><p>Deepak Chahar's (2/12) ball drifted down the leg side, which the on-field umpire duly called a wide. But seeing Kishan walking back, he raised his finger.</p><p>Interestingly, neither the bowler nor MI wicketkeeper Ryan Rickelton appealed for a caught behind.</p><p>The collapse began when Travis Head (0) threw his bat at a wide delivery on the off side from Trent Boult (4/26) to give catching practice to Naman Dhir at third man.</p><p>Abhishek Sharma (8), who hit a six to begin with, gave another simple grab to Vignesh Puthur off Boult, while Nitish Kumar Reddy played one straight to Mitchell Santner at mid-on for Chahar's second wicket.</p><p>The top order implosion saw last year's finalists crawling to an embarrassing 24 for four in the powerplay in a contest which is nothing less than a must-win for SRH.</p><p>Aniket Verma and Klaasen steadied the ship for a little while but SRH's misery continued when the former was bounced out by MI skipper Hardik Pandya, with the hosts slipping to 35 for five inside nine overs.</p><p>Klaasen struck two fours and a six off Puthur in the 10th over and hit three more boundaries off Pandya in the next to give SRH some momentum, but MI bowlers kept a tight control in general to not let the burly South African get away.</p><p>Klaasen did not get much assistance from the other end as Manohar, sent as an impact substitute, crawled to one off seven balls before his first big hit.</p><p>Klaasen's resistance ended in the penultimate over when Jasprit Bumrah (1/39) had him caught by Tilak Varma for his 300th T20 wicket, while Manohar fell to Boult in the last.</p>
<p>Hyderabad: Heinrich Klaasen's measured 71 and Abhinav Manohar's 43 rescued a listless Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) from a terrible start and guided them to 143/8 against Mumbai Indians in (MI) their Indian Premier League (IPL) match here on Wednesday.</p><p>SRH suffered an embarrassing batting collapse to slip to 35 for five in the first half before Klaasen took charge to avoid a complete disintegration.</p><p>Klaasen struck nine fours and two sixes for his 44-ball 71, putting on 99 for the sixth wicket with impact substitute Abhinav Manohar, who played a steady second fiddle with his 37-ball 43 (2x4s, 3x6s).</p>.IPL 2025 | MI win toss and elect to bowl against SRH; both teams to wear black armbands to mourn Pahalgam victims.<p>But it was a harrowing start for SRH who are placed second-last on the points table and face an uphill battle to keep themselves alive.</p><p>The lack of confidence was evident when SRH's top-order crumbled without any apparent pressure on a dry, hard and flat deck.</p><p>Instead of putting pressure on the MI bowlers, SRH presented a meek batting show, which was compounded by a reckless decision from Ishan Kishan (1) who walked back despite not having edged one behind the stumps.</p><p>Deepak Chahar's (2/12) ball drifted down the leg side, which the on-field umpire duly called a wide. But seeing Kishan walking back, he raised his finger.</p><p>Interestingly, neither the bowler nor MI wicketkeeper Ryan Rickelton appealed for a caught behind.</p><p>The collapse began when Travis Head (0) threw his bat at a wide delivery on the off side from Trent Boult (4/26) to give catching practice to Naman Dhir at third man.</p><p>Abhishek Sharma (8), who hit a six to begin with, gave another simple grab to Vignesh Puthur off Boult, while Nitish Kumar Reddy played one straight to Mitchell Santner at mid-on for Chahar's second wicket.</p><p>The top order implosion saw last year's finalists crawling to an embarrassing 24 for four in the powerplay in a contest which is nothing less than a must-win for SRH.</p><p>Aniket Verma and Klaasen steadied the ship for a little while but SRH's misery continued when the former was bounced out by MI skipper Hardik Pandya, with the hosts slipping to 35 for five inside nine overs.</p><p>Klaasen struck two fours and a six off Puthur in the 10th over and hit three more boundaries off Pandya in the next to give SRH some momentum, but MI bowlers kept a tight control in general to not let the burly South African get away.</p><p>Klaasen did not get much assistance from the other end as Manohar, sent as an impact substitute, crawled to one off seven balls before his first big hit.</p><p>Klaasen's resistance ended in the penultimate over when Jasprit Bumrah (1/39) had him caught by Tilak Varma for his 300th T20 wicket, while Manohar fell to Boult in the last.</p>