Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Punjab Kings: IPL H2H Record

Twenty-six meetings, eighteen wins to Sunrisers Hyderabad and eight to Punjab, and one venue that explains most of the gap. Hyderabad have staged eleven of these fixtures at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium at Uppal and have lost exactly one of them, in May 2014. Nothing else in this record is remotely as lopsided.

Away from Hyderabad the fixture is close. Punjab have won three of the eight played on their own grounds and Hyderabad have won five, which is a poor home return by Punjab but hardly a rout. At the eight neutral venues — Sharjah twice, Dubai twice, Chennai, Mumbai twice and one behind-closed-doors season in the Emirates — the split is four apiece.

The other thing worth knowing before the table is that this has become a very different fixture in the last three seasons. From 2013 to 2023 neither side passed 215 against the other and eight of the twenty-two innings failed to reach 130. From 2024 onwards there have been six innings of 210 or more, including an aggregate of 492 runs in a single match at Uppal in April 2025. Punjab, who used to lose these games by being bowled out, now lose them by being outscored.

The complete record, 2013 to 2026

Punjab played as Kings XI Punjab until the end of 2020 and as Punjab Kings from 2021; the ledger runs continuously and is abbreviated PBKS throughout. Hyderabad's record begins in 2013 and excludes the Deccan Chargers years.

Season	Date	Venue	Scores	Won by	Margin	Player of the match
2013	19 Apr	Uppal, Hyderabad	PBKS 123/9; SRH 127/5	SRH	5 wickets	Hanuma Vihari
2013	11 May	PCA Stadium, Mohali	SRH 150/7; PBKS 120/9	SRH	30 runs	Parthiv Patel
2014	22 Apr	Sharjah	PBKS 193/6; SRH 121	PBKS	72 runs	Glenn Maxwell
2014	14 May	Uppal, Hyderabad	SRH 205/5; PBKS 211/4	PBKS	6 wickets	Wriddhiman Saha
2015	27 Apr	PCA Stadium, Mohali	SRH 150/6; PBKS 130/9	SRH	20 runs	Trent Boult
2015	11 May	Uppal, Hyderabad	SRH 185/5; PBKS 180/7	SRH	5 runs	David Warner
2016	23 Apr	Uppal, Hyderabad	PBKS 143/6; SRH 146/5	SRH	5 wickets	Mustafizur Rahman
2016	15 May	IS Bindra Stadium, Mohali	PBKS 179/4; SRH 180/3	SRH	7 wickets	Hashim Amla
2017	17 Apr	Uppal, Hyderabad	SRH 159/6; PBKS 154	SRH	5 runs	Bhuvneshwar Kumar
2017	28 Apr	IS Bindra Stadium, Mohali	SRH 207/3; PBKS 181/9	SRH	26 runs	Rashid Khan
2018	19 Apr	IS Bindra Stadium, Mohali	PBKS 193/3; SRH 178/5	PBKS	15 runs	Chris Gayle
2018	26 Apr	Uppal, Hyderabad	SRH 132/6; PBKS 119	SRH	13 runs	Ankit Rajpoot
2019	8 Apr	IS Bindra Stadium, Mohali	SRH 150/4; PBKS 151/4	PBKS	6 wickets	KL Rahul
2019	29 Apr	Uppal, Hyderabad	SRH 212/6; PBKS 167/8	SRH	45 runs	David Warner
2020	8 Oct	Dubai	SRH 201/6; PBKS 132	SRH	69 runs	Jonny Bairstow
2020	24 Oct	Dubai	PBKS 126/7; SRH 114	PBKS	12 runs	Chris Jordan
2021	21 Apr	Chepauk, Chennai	PBKS 120; SRH 121/1	SRH	9 wickets	Jonny Bairstow
2021	25 Sep	Sharjah	PBKS 125/7; SRH 120/7	PBKS	5 runs	Jason Holder
2022	17 Apr	DY Patil Stadium, Navi Mumbai	PBKS 151; SRH 152/3	SRH	7 wickets	Umran Malik
2022	22 May	Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai	SRH 157/8; PBKS 160/5	PBKS	5 wickets	Harpreet Brar
2023	9 Apr	Uppal, Hyderabad	PBKS 143/9; SRH 145/2	SRH	8 wickets	Shikhar Dhawan
2024	9 Apr	Mullanpur	SRH 182/9; PBKS 180/6	SRH	2 runs	Nitish Kumar Reddy
2024	19 May	Uppal, Hyderabad	PBKS 214/5; SRH 215/6	SRH	4 wickets	Abhishek Sharma
2025	12 Apr	Uppal, Hyderabad	PBKS 245/6; SRH 247/2	SRH	8 wickets	Abhishek Sharma
2026	11 Apr	New Chandigarh	SRH 219/6; PBKS 223/4	PBKS	6 wickets	Shreyas Iyer
2026	6 May	Uppal, Hyderabad	SRH 235/4; PBKS 202/7	SRH	33 runs	Pat Cummins

Eleven at Uppal, and one Punjab win

Punjab's only victory in Hyderabad came on 14 May 2014, and it was a good one: Hyderabad made 205 for 5, Punjab chased 206 in 18.4 overs with Wriddhiman Saha making 54 and Glenn Maxwell 43. Nothing since has come close. Over the following ten fixtures at the ground Punjab have been bowled out three times, held under 145 twice more, and beaten twice while making over 200.

The venue is not an obvious fortress. The Uppal pitch has swung between a slow, low surface in the late 2010s and one of the best batting decks in the league since 2024, and Hyderabad have won in both conditions. In 2018 they defended 132. In 2025 they chased 246. The consistent factor is that Punjab have not managed to hold the game in the middle overs at this ground in either era.

Venue	Matches	SRH	PBKS
Uppal, Hyderabad	11	10	1
IS Bindra Stadium, Mohali	4	2	2
PCA Stadium, Mohali	2	2	0
New Chandigarh / Mullanpur	2	1	1
Dubai	2	1	1
Sharjah	2	0	2
Mumbai (two grounds)	2	1	1
Chepauk, Chennai	1	1	0

Punjab's home record is their better half

Punjab have used four home grounds across this fixture and hold a 3-5 record across them, which is better than it looks given how the away leg has gone. Their two wins at the IS Bindra Stadium in Mohali are the two most convincing performances they have produced in the pairing: 193 for 3 and a fifteen-run win in 2018 behind Chris Gayle's 104, and a six-wicket chase in 2019 finished off by KL Rahul.

The move to the new stadium at Mullanpur, on the northern edge of Chandigarh, has produced one match each way. The 2024 fixture there was the tightest in the whole record — Hyderabad 182 for 9, Punjab 180 for 6, two runs, with Arshdeep Singh taking 4 for 29 and Nitish Kumar Reddy holding the innings together for Hyderabad. In 2026 Punjab chased 220 at the same ground with seven balls to spare.

Sharjah is the only ground where Punjab hold an unbeaten record against Hyderabad, two matches and two wins, in 2014 and 2021. Both were low-scoring by the standards of that venue. The single Hyderabad win in Mumbai came at Navi Mumbai in 2022 and the single Punjab win came at the Wankhede three weeks later, which is as neat a split as a neutral season produces.

From 120s to 240s

The scoring history of this fixture divides cleanly at 2024.

Period	Matches	Innings of 200+	Innings under 130	Highest total
2013-2023	21	3	7	212/6 (SRH, 2019)
2024-2026	5	6	0	247/2 (SRH, 2025)

The match on 12 April 2025 at Uppal is the high point and the best single argument for how far the fixture has travelled. Punjab made 245 for 6. Hyderabad chased 247 in 18.3 overs, losing two wickets, and Abhishek Sharma made 141 from 54 balls with fourteen fours and ten sixes — the highest individual score anyone has made in this pairing, by thirty-four runs. The wider shape of that campaign is on the IPL 2025 season page.

At the other end sit the games that used to define the fixture. Hyderabad's 114 all out at Dubai in October 2020 is the lowest completed total either side has made; Punjab have three innings between 119 and 125, in 2018, 2013 and 2021. Counting only innings that were bowled out or lasted the full twenty overs, eight of the ten lowest scores in the record come from before 2022.

Warner's 700, Abhishek's 33 sixes

Batter	For	Innings	Runs	Strike rate	Best
David Warner	SRH	14	700	141	81 off 51
Abhishek Sharma	SRH	9	423	212	141 off 54
KL Rahul	PBKS	8	263	117	79 off 55
Shikhar Dhawan	SRH	11	259	123	77 off 48
Prabhsimran Singh	PBKS	9	212	151	71 off 45
Chris Gayle	PBKS	7	196	126	104 off 63
Manan Vohra	PBKS	7	195	157	95 off 50
Glenn Maxwell	PBKS	9	182	156	95 off 42

David Warner's 700 is comfortably the largest aggregate in the fixture and he did it without a century — his best is 81, and he passed fifty six times. Abhishek Sharma has taken a different route to a smaller number: 423 runs from nine innings, at a strike rate above 210, with 33 sixes. Warner hit 26 sixes in fourteen innings. That contrast is the fixture's change of era in two lines.

Chris Gayle's 104 from 63 balls at Mohali in 2018 contained eleven sixes and a single four, which is close to a caricature of a Gayle innings and was also the first hundred in the pairing. Manan Vohra's 95 from 50 in 2017 and Maxwell's 95 from 42 in 2014 are the two highest scores that did not reach three figures.

Bhuvneshwar, Rashid and Arshdeep

Bowler	For	Innings	Wickets	Economy	Best
Bhuvneshwar Kumar	SRH	18	26	7.40	5/19
Rashid Khan	SRH	10	18	5.83	3/19
Arshdeep Singh	PBKS	13	18	8.40	4/29
Sandeep Sharma	PBKS	8	9	8.75	3/21
Sandeep Sharma	SRH	6	9	6.13	2/17
Moises Henriques	SRH	7	8	8.59	3/16
Khaleel Ahmed	SRH	5	8	7.67	3/40

Bhuvneshwar Kumar's 26 wickets are the most in the fixture and his 5 for 19 at Uppal in April 2017 is the joint-best return; Punjab were bowled out for 154 chasing 160. Rashid Khan's economy of 5.83 over ten innings is again the tightest of any regular bowler, and Arshdeep Singh has matched his wicket count while conceding nearly two and a half runs an over more, which is a fair summary of the difference between bowling for the side defending and the side chasing in this pairing.

Sandeep Sharma is the only bowler to take nine wickets in the fixture for both teams — nine for Punjab between 2013 and 2017 at 8.75, then nine for Hyderabad at 6.13. He is also the only player to have appeared for both sides in this fixture in more than five matches each.

The fixture where the big performance loses

Three of the four best individual efforts in the record came in defeat, which is unusual enough to be worth setting out.

On 26 April 2018 at Uppal, Ankit Rajpoot took 5 for 14 — still the best bowling return the fixture has produced — and Punjab lost by thirteen runs, bowled out for 119 chasing 133. He was named player of the match anyway.

On 15 May 2016 at Mohali, Hashim Amla made 96 from 56 balls out of a Punjab total of 179 for 4. No other Punjab batter reached thirty. Hyderabad chased it with two balls to spare and Amla took the match award in a losing side.

On 9 April 2023 at Uppal, Shikhar Dhawan made 99 from 66 for Punjab and no other batter in the innings passed 22. Punjab finished on 143 for 9 and lost by eight wickets. Dhawan, who had made 259 runs in this fixture for Hyderabad earlier in his career, took the match award for the third losing-side performance in the record.

The fourth was Cooper Connolly's 107 from 58 balls at Uppal in May 2026, out of a Punjab total of 202 for 7 chasing 236. That one went to Pat Cummins instead.

Sources and method

Every Sunrisers Hyderabad–Punjab fixture from April 2013 to May 2026 was compiled from ball-by-ball scorecard data, with results, venues, margins, player-of-the-match awards and innings-level batting and bowling figures cross-checked against ESPNcricinfo Statsguru and the official IPL archive. The record is complete to the end of the 2026 season.

Batting and bowling aggregates cover this fixture only and are attributed to the franchise a player represented at the time, which is why Sandeep Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan appear under both. Wickets exclude run-outs; economy rates and strike rates are rounded to the nearest sensible figure. "Lowest completed total" counts only innings in which a side was bowled out or batted its full twenty overs, so a chase finished early is not treated as a low score.

Venue groupings follow the ground rather than the city: the PCA Stadium and the IS Bindra Stadium are counted separately, and the Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium appears under both Mullanpur and New Chandigarh in official listings and is treated as one venue here. Both franchises have fuller profiles on the Sunrisers Hyderabad page and the Punjab Kings page, the competition itself on the IPL hub, and the domestic game that feeds it under cricket in India. The era comparison and the losing-performance list in the closing sections are computed from the match data above rather than drawn from any published summary.