Some misinformation aims to divide; some just wants your click. A clip of Sunrisers Hyderabad co-owner Kavya Maran in tears went viral as her 'reaction' to SRH crashing out of this season's IPL — and it is two years old.

The claim

After SRH lost the eliminator to Rajasthan Royals on 27 May 2026, multiple accounts — including a sports page with over 8 lakh views on Facebook — posted a video of Maran crying, presenting it as her courtside reaction to that defeat.

What we found

Alt News ran the obvious test the sharers didn't: a reverse image search on the video's keyframes. It led straight to coverage from May 2024. The clip shows Maran after SRH's defeat to Kolkata Knight Riders in the IPL 2024 final in Chennai on 26 May 2024 — a match KKR won by 8 wickets after bowling SRH out for 113, the lowest total in an IPL final, as News9 reported at the time. The giveaway detail: the jersey. Alt News compared the SRH kit in the viral clip with the franchise's official 2026 posts from the actual eliminator — different season, different jersey.

The clip was genuinely famous in 2024 — it was covered then by mainstream outlets as a human moment from the final. That is precisely what makes it useful to engagement farms two years later: pre-tested emotional content, one caption swap away from a fresh viral hit.

This is the lowest-stakes item we will fact-check this week, and that is the point of covering it. The same mechanism — old footage, new caption, no date, no source — powers the communal fakes and the political fakes. If you learn to catch it here, where the cost of being wrong is only a cricket rumour, you will catch it where it matters.

Verdict

**False.** The video is from the IPL 2024 final on 26 May 2024, not from SRH's 2026 eliminator exit. Old emotion, new caption.