Simon Helmot, a key coaching staff with the Sunrisers Hyderabad, grew up in Melbourne and would sing the orange brigade’s team win song with much gusto after SRH defeated arch rivals CSK by 10 runs. Though the Aussie was schooled on SRH socials to improve their fielding levels urgently, though Nitish Reddy, Sakib Hussain, Eshan Malinga and Heinrich Klaasen got the job done against the yellow lions.
IPL is quite the zoo, with assorted teams staking claim to the wildlife royals, tigers and lions. But SRH has been on about their tiger, which is now morphed into Hydra, merely for rhyming purposes.
Having adopted Richmond Footie side’s Tigerland anthem in their dressing room for a few seasons now, 2026 has seen the lyrics retrofitted to suit the cricket league they are playing in. So, ‘Tigerland’ becomes ‘Hydera-bad’.
Here’s how the slightly mangled lyrics go:
Oh we’re from Hyderabad
A fighting fury, we’re from Hyderabad
In every battle you will see us with a grin
Bowling quicks and spin
If we’re behind then never mind
We’ll bat and fight and win
For we’re from Hyderabad
We never weaken till the final bells gone
Like sunrisers of old
For We’re from Hydra
(orange and black)
We’re from Hyderabad.