IPL 2025 | MI win toss and elect to bowl against SRH; both teams to wear black armbands to mourn Pahalgam victims

Players of both teams are wearing black armbands during the match which will not feature cheerleaders and fireworks to mourn the victims of terror attack in Pahalgam.

Mumbai Indians (MI) won the toss and put Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) to bat first in Match 41 of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 at Hyderabad.

The players of both teams are wearing black armbands during the IPL 2025 tie which will not feature cheerleaders and fireworks to mourn the victims of the terrorist attack in Pahalgam.

The teams will also observe a minute's silence to pay their respects to those affected by the incident.

Both teams have made one change each in the playing eleven. While MI brought Vignesh Puthur for Ashwani Kumar, SRH brought in Jaydev Unadkat with Mohammed Shami going into the Impact Players list.

Teams:

SRH: Travis Head, 2 Abhishek Sharma, 3 Ishan Kishan, 4 Nitish Kumar Reddy, 5 Heinrich Klaasen (wk), 6 Aniket Verma, 7 Pat Cummins (capt), 8 Harshal Patel, 9 Jaydev Unadkat, 10 Zeeshan Ansari, 11 Eshan Malinga.

MI: 1 Ryan Rickelton (wk), 2 Suryakumar Yadav, 3 Tilak Varma, 4 Hardik Pandya (capt), 5 Naman Dhir, 6 Will Jacks, 7 Mitchell Santner, 8 Deepak Chahar, 9 Trent Boult, 10 Jasprit Bumrah, 11 Vignesh Puthur.

(With PTI inputs)