SRH Team Full IPL Match Schedule, Fixtures, Dates, Venues, Time Table, Match Timings

Kavya Maran’s Sunrisers Hyderabad will look to return to winning ways in IPL 2026 boosted by the form of star players like Abhishek Sharma and Ishan Kishan

Sunrisers Hyderabad IPL 2026 Schedule: Kavya Maran’s Sunrisers Hyderabad will look to return to the Playoffs and possible enter the final once again as the IPL 2026 season gets underway on March 28. After losing to Kolkata Knight Riders in the IPL 2024, a lot of expected from SRH and their explosive firepower with players like Travis Head, Heinrich Klaasen, Abhishek Sharma and Ishan Kishan in their line-up and led by Australian talismanic skipper Pat Cummins.

SRH will be playing in the opening match of the IPL 2026 season, even though they are not the finalists from last year. They will take on defending champions Royal Challengers Bengaluru in the opening game at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on March 28 from 7pm IST onwards.

However, the matches scheduled in Bengaluru are subject to clearance from the Expert Committee constituted by the Government of Karnataka. The committee will conduct a meeting and inspection of the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium on March 13, 2026, during which a full-scale mock demonstration of match-day arrangements will be carried out to assess the stadium’s preparedness for hosting IPL matches.

Kavya Maran’s SRH will then travel to Eden Gardens in Kolkata to take on Shah Rukh Khan’s Kolkata Knight Riders on April 2 in a clash from 7pm onwards. Their first home game will be against Sanjiv Goenka’s Lucknow Super Giants on April 5 with a 330pm start.

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In their fourth match, they will be travelling to Mullanpur to take on IPL 2025 finalists Punjab Kings at the PCA Stadium on April 11, in a match which begins at 330pm IST.

SRH flattered to deceive as they failed to reach the Playoffs in IPL 2025 and finished in a disappointing No. 6 position on the Points Table. However, Kavya Maran will be pleased by the form of her star players Abhishek Sharma and Ishan Kishan in the T20 World Cup 2026. Abhishek and Ishan have become the world No. 1 and 2 batters in the latest ICC T20I rankings announced on Wednesday.

The likes of Travis Head and Cummins will be rearing to go in the IPL 2026 after Australia’s disappointing performance in the T20 World Cup this year. But will Cummins yet to fully recover from injury, SRH could have a new skipper for the start of the tournament and it may well be Head as a stop-gap arrangement.

They have added more firepower to their line-up with the addition of England all-rounder Liam Livingstone for Rs 13 crore in the IPL 2026 mini auction last year. Their bowling will also be bolstered by the addition of Mohammad Shami, who was traded from Lucknow Super Giants ahead of the IPL 2026 season.

Their young batter Ravichandran Smaran was in terrific form in the Ranji Trophy season as well finishing as one of the leading run-scorer with over 900 runs to his name.

Here is the IPL 2026 schedule for Sunrisers Hyderabad…

Opponents	Date	Time	Venue
Royal Challengers Bengaluru	29.3.2026	7pm	M. Chinnaswamy Stadium
Kolkata Knight Riders	02.04.2026	7pm	Eden Gardens, Kolkata
Lucknow Super Giants	05.04.2026	330pm	Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderabad
Punjab Kings	11.04.2026	330pm	PCA Stadium, Mullanpur

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