Talking about SRH's performance in IPL 2025, former India batter Aakash Chopra opined that the team probably had a slight arrogance from the last IPL season. "The season hasn't been good. It wasn't that much about team selection," he said. Aakash noted that the Hyderabad pitch also affected SRH's performance this season. SRH were runners-up in IPL 2024.