Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Lucknow Super Giants: IPL Record
By CricketTaken EditorialPublished Cricket in the Indian Premier League9 min read
Seven meetings, five wins to Lucknow Super Giants and two to Sunrisers Hyderabad, and one number that dominates the record: the side batting second has won six of the seven. Only Lucknow's first win in the pairing, at the DY Patil Stadium in April 2022, came from defending a total.
The fixture is young — Lucknow entered the league in 2022 — and it has produced one of the most extreme innings in Twenty20 cricket. On 8 May 2024 at Uppal, Hyderabad were set 166 and got there in 9.4 overs without losing a wicket. ESPNcricinfo recorded it as the biggest winning margin, measured in balls remaining, in any successful chase of 150 or more in the format.
Everything else in the pairing has been closer than the 5-2 scoreline suggests. Three of Lucknow's five wins were five-wicket margins and the most recent of them was finished with one ball to spare. Lucknow have had the better of the tight games, and they have had it at Hyderabad's ground more often than at their own.
The record, 2022 to 2026
| Season | Date | Venue | Scores | Won by | Margin | Player of the match |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 4 Apr | DY Patil Stadium, Navi Mumbai | LSG 169/7; SRH 157/9 | LSG | 12 runs | Avesh Khan |
| 2023 | 7 Apr | Ekana Stadium, Lucknow | SRH 121/8; LSG 127/5 | LSG | 5 wickets | Krunal Pandya |
| 2023 | 13 May | Uppal, Hyderabad | SRH 182/6; LSG 185/3 | LSG | 7 wickets | Prerak Mankad |
| 2024 | 8 May | Uppal, Hyderabad | LSG 165/4; SRH 167/0 | SRH | 10 wickets | Travis Head |
| 2025 | 27 Mar | Uppal, Hyderabad | SRH 190/9; LSG 193/5 | LSG | 5 wickets | Shardul Thakur |
| 2025 | 19 May | Ekana Stadium, Lucknow | LSG 205/7; SRH 206/5 | SRH | 6 wickets | Abhishek Sharma |
| 2026 | 5 Apr | Uppal, Hyderabad | SRH 156/9; LSG 160/5 | LSG | 5 wickets | Mohammed Shami |
Nine overs and four balls
Lucknow made 165 for 4 on 8 May 2024 and it was not a bad total on that pitch. Hyderabad's openers then put on 167 unbroken in 58 balls. Travis Head made 89 from 30 with eight fours and eight sixes; Abhishek Sharma made 75 from 28 with eight fours and six sixes. Both reached fifty in sixteen balls.
The scale of it is easier to grasp from the by-products than the totals. Hyderabad won with 62 balls unused. Lucknow used five bowlers and every one of them conceded at fifteen an over or more. The chase is the only ten-wicket result in the fixture, and it had consequences beyond it: the speed of the win pushed Mumbai Indians out of contention in the 2024 season the same evening.
It is worth setting against Hyderabad's other win in the pairing, thirteen months later at Lucknow, because that one was a genuine contest: Lucknow 205 for 7, Hyderabad 206 for 5 in 18.2 overs, Abhishek Sharma 59 from 20 balls at the start of it and Mitchell Marsh and Aiden Markram having made 65 and 61 for the home side.
Uppal has not helped Hyderabad here either
Four of the seven have been played at Hyderabad's home ground and Lucknow have won three. Two of those three were chases completed inside seventeen overs; the third, in April 2026, was finished with a ball to spare.
| Venue | Matches | SRH | LSG |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uppal, Hyderabad | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| Ekana Stadium, Lucknow | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| DY Patil Stadium, Navi Mumbai | 1 | 0 | 1 |
The March 2025 fixture at Uppal is the clearest example of how the ground has behaved in this pairing. Hyderabad made 190 for 9, their second-highest total in the fixture, and Lucknow chased 191 with 23 balls left, Nicholas Pooran making 70 from 26. Shardul Thakur's 4 for 34 in the first innings is one of only two four-wicket returns the fixture has produced, and he still finished on the winning side of a chase completed in the seventeenth over.
Lucknow's own ground has been more even. The Ekana pitch produced the lowest total in the record — Hyderabad 121 for 8 in April 2023, with Krunal Pandya taking 3 for 18 and then making 34 from 23 in the chase — and, two years later, the highest, when Lucknow made 205 for 7 and lost.
Pooran's hundred balls
| Batter | For | Innings | Runs | Strike rate | Best |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nicholas Pooran | LSG | 6 | 219 | 219 | 70 off 26 |
| Heinrich Klaasen | SRH | 4 | 182 | 158 | 62 off 41 |
| Abhishek Sharma | SRH | 6 | 160 | 225 | 75 off 28 |
| Travis Head | SRH | 3 | 143 | 220 | 89 off 30 |
| KL Rahul | LSG | 3 | 132 | 116 | 68 off 50 |
| Mitchell Marsh | LSG | 3 | 131 | 160 | 65 off 39 |
| Aiden Markram | LSG | 3 | 107 | 157 | 61 off 37 |
| Rishabh Pant | LSG | 3 | 90 | 127 | 68 off 50 |
Pooran's 219 runs came off exactly 100 balls, which is the sort of coincidence that makes a point on its own: he has faced fewer than seventeen balls an innings in this fixture and still leads it for runs. Thirteen of his 35 boundaries were sixes.
The three fastest returns in the table all belong to Hyderabad, and none of the three is a large aggregate. Between them Head, Abhishek Sharma and Klaasen have 485 runs from thirteen innings. The four Lucknow batters below Pooran have 460 from twelve, at strike rates that are lower across the board than his. The fixture has been decided less by who scored more and more by who scored theirs in the second innings.
Rishabh Pant, a long-standing opponent of Hyderabad from his Delhi years, has 90 runs from three innings since joining Lucknow, including 68 from 50 in the 2026 fixture. Heinrich Klaasen has passed twenty in all four of his innings here and reached fifty once, having twice been dismissed for 47.
Three men who played for both sides
Squad movement matters more in a seven-match fixture than in a thirty-match one, because one transfer changes the personnel on both sides of the ledger at once. Three players have batted for Hyderabad and for Lucknow in this pairing.
Nicholas Pooran is the most consequential. He played one match against Lucknow for Hyderabad, making 34, then joined Lucknow and made 219 against his former club — the leading aggregate in the fixture. Aiden Markram went the other way in effect: 40 runs across three innings for Hyderabad, then 107 in three for Lucknow, including 61 from 37 at the Ekana in 2025 in a losing side. Abdul Samad has appeared four times for Hyderabad and three for Lucknow, with 58 runs and 41.
Lucknow's bowling attack in the fixture has also had a different look almost every season. Avesh Khan, Krunal Pandya, Shardul Thakur, Amit Mishra, Jason Holder, Digvesh Rathi, Prince Yadav and Mohammed Shami have all taken wickets against Hyderabad for them, which is eight wicket-takers across seven matches from a side that has changed its attack almost every season.
The bowling has been Lucknow's
| Bowler | For | Innings | Wickets | Economy | Best |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avesh Khan | LSG | 5 | 8 | 9.41 | 4/24 |
| Krunal Pandya | LSG | 3 | 7 | 5.75 | 3/18 |
| Shardul Thakur | LSG | 2 | 5 | 9.13 | 4/34 |
| Digvesh Rathi | LSG | 3 | 4 | 10.25 | 2/37 |
| Bhuvneshwar Kumar | SRH | 4 | 3 | 6.14 | 2/12 |
| Pat Cummins | SRH | 3 | 3 | 10.00 | 2/29 |
No Hyderabad bowler has taken more than three wickets against Lucknow, which is the starkest single line in the record. Avesh Khan alone has eight, including 4 for 24 in the first meeting of all, and Krunal Pandya's seven at an economy of 5.75 is the most economical spell-work anyone has produced in the pairing.
Mohammed Shami's 2 for 9 at Uppal in 2026 is the tightest four-over return in the fixture and won him the match award in a game Lucknow took with one ball remaining. Neither side has produced a five-wicket haul.
What the toss has been worth
Six wins from seven for the side batting second is a striking number even in a small sample, and the margins support it rather than undercut it: the six chases were completed with 62, 24, 23, 10, 4 and 1 balls to spare. Only one of them was genuinely close to failing.
The counter-example is the fixture's opening match, and it was played at a neutral ground in a season when the whole league was staged in Maharashtra. Since then every meeting has been at either Uppal or the Ekana, both of which have generally been chasing grounds in this period, so the pattern may say as much about the two venues as about the two sides.
Both squads and their season histories are on the Lucknow Super Giants and Sunrisers Hyderabad pages, with the wider competition on the IPL hub and the domestic game around it under cricket in India.
Sources and method
All seven Sunrisers Hyderabad–Lucknow Super Giants matches from April 2022 to April 2026 were compiled from ball-by-ball scorecard data. Results, venues, margins, match awards and innings figures were checked against ESPNcricinfo Statsguru and the official IPL match archive, and the standing of the May 2024 chase in Twenty20 cricket is as reported by ESPNcricinfo at the time. The record is complete to the end of the 2026 season.
Aggregates cover this fixture only and are attributed to the side a player represented at the time, which is why Aiden Markram appears once in the batting table under Lucknow. Wickets exclude run-outs. Balls-remaining figures are taken from legal deliveries faced in the second innings.
The sample is seven matches. Strike rates and economy rates over three or four innings are descriptive rather than predictive, and the toss observation in the closing section is offered with the venue caveat attached rather than as a finding. The Ekana Cricket Stadium appears in official listings under its full name, Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium, and is shortened here.