SRH suffered a defeat to Gujarat Titans in the IPL 2026 match on Tuesday at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. SRH restricted GT to 168/5, and then Mohammed Siraj, Kagiso Rabada, and others bowled exceptional spells to bowl out Hyderabad for just 86 runs in 14.5 overs. Despite the defeat, SRH coach Daniel Vettori doesn’t feel there’s a need for the team to alter its approach as well.
“We always want to get off to a good start, that’s our MO through the power play,” Daniel Vettori, the head coach of Sunrisers Hyderabad, said in the press conference. “Today, even though they bowled exceptionally well, there were a couple of unfortunate dismissals for the first two, and then from there it was tough to really regroup as they just keep putting pressure on. We knew coming up against their bowling line-up, and the fact that they had five seamers plus Rashid, was always going to be a challenge. We didn’t get the start we wanted, and they were able to capitalise the whole way through. It was a really good bowling performance; we saw a hostile spell by Rabada and Siraj to start up, and then Jason Holder was exceptional with his lengths tonight.”
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However, SRH delayed sending the in-form Heinrich Klaasen after Abhishek Sharma and Head’s early departures. Klaasen, who usually bats at No. 4, came to bat at No. 6, with Smaran Ravichandran and Salil Arora promoted over him.
“When it’s 23 for 3, the fact that we sent Smaran in, we knew that we wanted to push Klaasen back a little bit to have more of an opportunity through those middle stages. Sometimes you have to sit back and say it was a really good bowling performance and when you’re put in that situation, you sometimes make mistakes. I don’t put any blame on the batting unit; they’ve been exceptional this year. Every team throughout the IPL is going to have their small blips once in a while and ours was tonight, but I don’t see any reason why they won’t bounce back,” Daniel Vettori concluded.
