Ex-India captain Sunil Gavaskar opined that SRH's batting in IPL 2024 was like "youngsters in their fancy sports cars going through traffic red lights and not being caught." "This year...teams [have] started to put...brakes not just on SRH but also on other teams trying to emulate them," Gavaskar added. Notably, SRH have lost four out of five IPL 2025 games.