New Delhi. Gujarat Titans (GT) has almost confirmed its place in the IPL playoffs by defeating Sunrise Hyderabad (SRH). Gujarat defeated SRH by 38 runs in the match on Friday. Sunrisers Hyderabad is completely out of the playoff race with this defeat. Now only seven teams are left in this race. Gujarat Titans is second in this race after Mumbai Indians.

In the IPL 2025, Gujarat Titans and Sunrise Hyderabad took place at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on Friday. Sunrisers captain Pat Cummins won the toss and chose bowling first but his decision turned upside down. Gujarat Titans captain Shubman Gill (76) and Sai Sudarshan (48) shared an 87 -run opening partnership. This partnership was broken by Sai Sudarshan's dismissal. Jose Butler, who came to replace Sudarshan, also played an excellent innings of 64 runs. Washington Sundar scored 21 runs.

Gujarat Titans scored 224 for 6 wickets thanks to the best batting of their top-4 batter. Sunrisers Hyderabad started well in front of this huge target. He had scored 139 runs for 2 wickets at one time. At that time, Abhishek Sharma and Heinrich Klassen were at the crease and Hyderabad was expected to win. But as soon as Abhishek was dismissed on the last ball of the 15th over, the fall of wickets came. Hyderabad's team, which lost the third wicket on the score of 139, got 145 runs for 6 wickets. With this, all the expectations of his victory were over. Nitish Kumar Reddy (21) and Pat Cummins (19) somehow brought their team to 186 runs for 6 wickets.