Pat Cummins, the captain of Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH), won the toss and decided to bowl first against the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) on Sunday at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai. Thanks to Daryl Mitchell’s first-ever IPL fifty and captain Ruturaj Gaikwad’s outstanding 98, CSK amassed a huge 212 for 3. Tushar Deshpande responded by taking four wickets, which caused Sunrisers Hyderabad to be bowled for 134 and lose the game by 78 runs.
With this triumph, CSK now has five wins out of nine games played this season. Regretfully, Hyderabad has now suffered their second straight loss, their fourth in nine games. CSK moved up the points table and into third place after the 78-run loss, while Hyderabad dropped to fourth.
Sunrisers Hyderabad still have hope for a postseason trip.
A team must score at least 16 points to be eligible for the top four spots in the points table in the ten-team current competition. This implies that in order for Sunrisers Hyderabad to get to 16 points and guarantee a postseason berth, they must win three of their final five games. More defeats would make it more difficult for them to make the playoffs, even with their strong net-run rate.
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“(On whether, in retrospect, he should have batted first.) Not really. We believed it to be our best chance of success. They played good cricket and reached 210, but we had a chance, at least with our batting order and the surface being in good condition. The batting lineup is working out fairly well so far. At some point throughout the competition, every player in that lineup has performed and helped us win a game. It was the same in the first inning as well, but it’s unquestionably dewy now. During the post-game press conference, Cummins stated, “We’ll recover fast.
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