Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Delhi Capitals: IPL H2H Record

Sunrisers Hyderabad and Delhi have played twenty-seven times in the Indian Premier League and Hyderabad lead it 14-12, with one match abandoned. The interesting part of that ledger is not the margin, which is close to nothing, but where the wins sit. Hyderabad have won six of the seven games played in Delhi. Delhi have won all three played in Visakhapatnam. Strip out those ten fixtures and the remaining seventeen split almost exactly down the middle.

The pairing begins in 2013, not 2008. Sunrisers Hyderabad entered the league that season after the Deccan Chargers franchise was terminated, so nothing the Chargers did against the Delhi Daredevils belongs on this page. Delhi, for their part, played as the Daredevils until the end of 2018 and as the Capitals from 2019, a change of name rather than of franchise, and the record runs continuously through it.

The first meeting, at the Feroz Shah Kotla on 12 April 2013, set a tone the fixture has never quite shaken: Delhi 114 for 8, Hyderabad 115 for 7, three wickets and four balls to spare, and a leg-spinner named Amit Mishra taking the match award for a side he would later play against. Hyderabad won the first four meetings. Delhi have won six of the last ten. In between sit a Super Over, an Eliminator, a Qualifier and the highest total either team has made against the other.

Every meeting, 2013 to 2026

Scores are for the completed innings. "DD" marks the Delhi Daredevils years, "DC" the Delhi Capitals years.

Season	Date	Venue	Scores	Won by	Margin	Player of the match
2013	12 Apr	Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi	DD 114/8; SRH 115/7	SRH	3 wickets	Amit Mishra
2013	4 May	Uppal, Hyderabad	DD 80; SRH 81/4	SRH	6 wickets	Darren Sammy
2014	25 Apr	Dubai	SRH 184/1; DD 180/4	SRH	4 runs	Aaron Finch
2014	10 May	Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi	DD 143/7; SRH 44/2	SRH	8 wickets (DLS)	Dale Steyn
2015	18 Apr	Visakhapatnam	DD 167/4; SRH 163/8	DD	4 runs	JP Duminy
2015	9 May	Raipur	SRH 163/4; DD 157/4	SRH	6 runs	Moises Henriques
2016	12 May	Uppal, Hyderabad	SRH 146/8; DD 150/3	DD	7 wickets	Chris Morris
2016	20 May	Raipur	SRH 158/7; DD 161/4	DD	6 wickets	Karun Nair
2017	19 Apr	Uppal, Hyderabad	SRH 191/4; DD 176/5	SRH	15 runs	Kane Williamson
2017	2 May	Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi	SRH 185/3; DD 189/4	DD	6 wickets	Mohammed Shami
2018	5 May	Uppal, Hyderabad	DD 163/5; SRH 164/3	SRH	7 wickets	Rashid Khan
2018	10 May	Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi	DD 187/5; SRH 191/1	SRH	9 wickets	Shikhar Dhawan
2019	4 Apr	Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi	DC 129/8; SRH 131/5	SRH	5 wickets	Jonny Bairstow
2019	14 Apr	Uppal, Hyderabad	DC 155/7; SRH 116	DC	39 runs	Keemo Paul
2019	8 May (Eliminator)	Visakhapatnam	SRH 162/8; DC 165/8	DC	2 wickets	Rishabh Pant
2020	29 Sep	Abu Dhabi	SRH 162/4; DC 147/7	SRH	15 runs	Rashid Khan
2020	27 Oct	Dubai	SRH 219/2; DC 131	SRH	88 runs	Wriddhiman Saha
2020	8 Nov (Qualifier 2)	Abu Dhabi	DC 189/3; SRH 172/8	DC	17 runs	Marcus Stoinis
2021	25 Apr	Chepauk, Chennai	DC 159/4; SRH 159/7	DC	Super Over	Prithvi Shaw
2021	22 Sep	Dubai	SRH 134/9; DC 139/2	DC	8 wickets	Anrich Nortje
2022	5 May	Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai	DC 207/3; SRH 186/8	DC	21 runs	David Warner
2023	24 Apr	Uppal, Hyderabad	DC 144/9; SRH 137/6	DC	7 runs	Axar Patel
2023	29 Apr	Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi	SRH 197/6; DC 188/6	SRH	9 runs	Mitchell Marsh
2024	20 Apr	Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi	SRH 266/7; DC 199	SRH	67 runs	Travis Head
2025	30 Mar	Visakhapatnam	SRH 163; DC 166/3	DC	7 wickets	Mitchell Starc
2025	5 May	Uppal, Hyderabad	DC 133/7	—	No result	—
2026	21 Apr	Uppal, Hyderabad	SRH 242/2; DC 195/9	SRH	47 runs	Abhishek Sharma

Delhi's home ground problem

Seven of these matches have been played in Delhi and Hyderabad have won six. Three were at the Feroz Shah Kotla before it was renamed, and Hyderabad took two of those. The four at the Arun Jaitley Stadium since 2018 have all gone the same way, and none was especially close: nine wickets, five wickets, nine runs, sixty-seven runs.

There is no obvious conditions explanation. Delhi is a batting ground with short straight boundaries and a surface that tends to skid rather than turn, which ought to suit a home side built around Rishabh Pant and Prithvi Shaw as much as a visiting one. What the four games have in common is that Hyderabad's imported batting has taken the ground apart: Shikhar Dhawan and Kane Williamson in 2018, Mitchell Marsh with a century opening stand and then four wickets in 2023, Travis Head with 89 from 32 balls in 2024.

Hyderabad's own ground has been far less kind to them. Eight of the twenty-seven have been played at Uppal and Hyderabad have won only four, lost three and had one washed out. Two of those three home defeats came in games where Hyderabad were bowled out or shut down for under 140.

Visakhapatnam, where the ledger reverses

Delhi have played Hyderabad three times at the ACA-VDCA Stadium in Visakhapatnam and won all three, which is the most one-sided venue reading in the fixture. The ground has served as a secondary home for both sides at different times, which is how a city neither franchise is based in ends up carrying three fixtures.

The three wins are unalike. In 2015 Delhi made 167 and JP Duminy took 4 for 17 to defend it by four runs. In the 2019 Eliminator Delhi chased 163 and got there with a single ball left, Pant finishing it with 49 not out from 21 balls. In 2025 Mitchell Starc took 5 for 35, Hyderabad were bowled out for 163 inside nineteen overs, and Delhi won with four overs unused. The records for the Visakhapatnam ground show a venue that has usually favoured the side batting second, and Delhi have batted second in two of the three.

Both knockouts belong to Delhi

The fixture has produced two playoff matches and Delhi have won both. The 2019 Eliminator at Visakhapatnam ended Hyderabad's season by two wickets. The 2020 Qualifier 2 in Abu Dhabi was a straighter contest: Delhi 189 for 3, Marcus Stoinis 38 from 27 and two wickets, Hyderabad 172 for 8, and Delhi went to their first final. The full arc of that campaign sits on the IPL 2020 season page.

For a fixture Hyderabad lead overall, losing both matches that actually decided something is the sort of asymmetry the aggregate hides. It also explains why the pairing feels like Delhi's in recent memory: six of the last ten have gone their way, including the Super Over at Chepauk in 2021 that Prithvi Shaw effectively won with 53 from 39 in a tied chase.

The totals: 266, 242 and the 80 that started it

Hyderabad hold the top three totals in the fixture and the gap to Delhi's best is wide.

Total	Team	Season	Venue	Result
266/7	SRH	2024	Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi	Won by 67 runs
242/2	SRH	2026	Uppal, Hyderabad	Won by 47 runs
219/2	SRH	2020	Dubai	Won by 88 runs
207/3	DC	2022	Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai	Won by 21 runs
199	DC	2024	Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi	Lost by 67 runs
197/6	SRH	2023	Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi	Won by 9 runs
195/9	DC	2026	Uppal, Hyderabad	Lost by 47 runs

The 266 in April 2024 was the highest total in IPL history at the time it was made, and Delhi's 199 in reply is still the largest losing score in this fixture. Kuldeep Yadav's 4 for 55 that evening is the most expensive four-wicket return either side has produced against the other.

At the other end, the lowest completed innings — counting only innings that were bowled out or lasted the full twenty overs — are Delhi's 80 at Uppal in 2013, Delhi's 114 for 8 at the Kotla in 2013, and Hyderabad's 116 at Uppal in 2019. Three of the six lowest belong to the fixture's first two seasons, which is a reasonable proxy for how much Twenty20 batting has moved since.

Chasing has been slightly the harder job overall: fourteen of the twenty-six completed matches were won by the side batting first. The two largest successful chases are almost identical in size and a year apart. Hyderabad chased 188 at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in 2018 with seven balls to spare, and Delhi chased 186 at the Kotla in 2017 with five.

Pant's 128 and the nine-wicket answer

The single best individual innings in the fixture is now Abhishek Sharma's 135 from 68 balls at Uppal in April 2026, ten fours and ten sixes, made in a total of 242 for 2. It displaced an innings that had held the mark for eight years and deserves to be remembered better than it is.

On 10 May 2018 Rishabh Pant made 128 from 63 balls at the Arun Jaitley Stadium, fifteen fours and seven sixes, out of a Delhi total of 187 for 5. No other Delhi batter passed twenty. Hyderabad then chased 188 for the loss of one wicket, Shikhar Dhawan 92 not out from 50 and Williamson 83 from 53, and the match award went to the chase rather than the hundred. It remains the only instance in this fixture of a batter making more than two-thirds of his side's total and losing by nine wickets.

Who has scored the runs

Aggregates are for runs made in this fixture only, split by the side the batter was playing for at the time.

Batter	For	Innings	Runs	Strike rate	Best
Rishabh Pant	DC	16	536	147	128 off 63
Kane Williamson	SRH	13	493	128	89 off 50
David Warner	SRH	15	448	129	73 off 56
Shreyas Iyer	DC	13	378	114	60 off 40
Shikhar Dhawan	SRH	11	357	135	92 off 50
Abhishek Sharma	SRH	9	269	195	135 off 68
Prithvi Shaw	DC	9	227	144	65 off 36
Shikhar Dhawan	DC	8	218	120	78 off 49

Dhawan is the anomaly and the most interesting name on the list. He made 357 for Hyderabad against Delhi and then 218 for Delhi against Hyderabad, a combined 575 that is more than any other player has scored in the fixture for anyone. David Warner made the same journey in the same direction, and his 92 from 58 at the Brabourne in 2022 — a match award against the side he had captained to a title — is the best of his Delhi innings.

Pant's strike rate of 147 across sixteen innings is the highest of anyone with more than ten appearances in the fixture, and his 26 sixes are the most by any batter on either side.

Who has taken the wickets

Bowler	For	Innings	Wickets	Economy	Best
Bhuvneshwar Kumar	SRH	19	18	7.69	2/27
Rashid Khan	SRH	12	15	5.71	3/14
Kagiso Rabada	DC	8	14	9.20	4/22
Axar Patel	DC	13	11	7.52	2/26
Amit Mishra	DC	12	9	7.17	2/19
Dale Steyn	SRH	5	9	5.60	2/11
Kuldeep Yadav	DC	6	9	9.33	4/55

Rashid Khan's economy of 5.71 across twelve innings is the outlier in the fixture, and by a distance — no other bowler with more than five appearances has gone at under six. Bhuvneshwar Kumar has the wickets through longevity: nineteen innings, more than anyone, and never more than two in a match.

The best single return is Starc's 5 for 35 at Visakhapatnam in 2025, the only five-wicket haul the fixture has produced. Behind it sit four-wicket returns from Duminy, Rabada twice, Chris Morris, Marsh, Thangarasu Natarajan, Kuldeep Yadav and Eshan Malinga, whose 4 for 32 in 2026 came in a match where 437 runs were scored.

Four things the table does not say

The fixture becomes a low-scoring one mainly when Hyderabad are at home. Of the six completed matches in which neither side reached 150, four were played in Hyderabad.

Delhi's win rate improves markedly when they bowl first. Of their twelve wins, seven came chasing. Hyderabad's split runs the other way — nine of their fourteen wins came defending a total.

No completed twenty-over chase in the fixture has been decided by fewer than four runs, but two have been decided by exactly four, in 2014 and 2015, and one went to a Super Over. For a pairing this old that is a low count of genuine last-ball finishes.

Neither side has won more than two in a row since 2014. Hyderabad's four-match opening run across 2013 and 2014 remains the longest streak either has managed, which is unusual in a fixture with twenty-seven matches in it.

Both franchises are covered in more depth on the Sunrisers Hyderabad and Delhi Capitals pages, and the wider season-by-season context sits on the Indian Premier League hub. For the domestic game around it, see cricket in India.

Sources and method

Match results, scores, venues, player-of-the-match awards and innings-level batting and bowling figures were compiled from ball-by-ball scorecard data for every Sunrisers Hyderabad–Delhi fixture from 2013 to 2026 and cross-checked against ESPNcricinfo Statsguru and the official IPL match archive. Records are current to the end of the 2026 season.

Batting and bowling aggregates count only runs and wickets in this fixture, and are split by the franchise a player represented at the time, which is why Shikhar Dhawan and David Warner appear under two teams. Strike rates and economy rates are rounded. Wickets exclude run-outs.

"Lowest completed innings" means an innings in which the side was bowled out or faced the full twenty overs; innings curtailed by rain or ended by a completed chase are excluded, because a side that reached its target in nine overs has not made a low total. The 2013 to 2018 fixtures are recorded under the Delhi Daredevils name and those from 2019 under Delhi Capitals; the record is continuous. Sunrisers Hyderabad's ledger begins in 2013 and does not include Deccan Chargers matches. The observations in the final section are computed from the match list above rather than taken from any published summary.