In Match 46 of the Indian Premier League (IPL 2024), Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) faced the home team Chennai Super Kings (CSK) at the M. A. Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai. The match was a reality check for SRH. The squad that sent shockwaves through the cricket community with their massive first-inning totals lost their second straight match while chasing.
This season, SRH has advanced significantly, but their openers have taken the bulk of the load. Their middle order is now totally exposed, and every club is aware of their vulnerability when they bat second. Conversely, with this massive 78-run victory, CSK shot up to third place in the points table.
IPL 2024: Match 46: Highlight of CSK vs. SRH, second innings:
Early on, in 21/2 overs, SRH loses two wickets.
CSK took an early lead thanks to two goals from Tushar Deshpande in his opening over. After welcoming Deshpande to the second over with a maximum, Travis Head opened the second inning with a four. However, on the fifth ball, the right-arm pacer exacted revenge.
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Head left the game for 13 off 7 balls after a slower delivery failed to clear the deep point. Deshpande sent back SRH’s impact substitute, Anmolpreet Singh, for a golden duck to conclude the over. With a thick leading edge from the batter and an outswing delivery on the stumps, Moeen Ali was able to easily catch the ball at extra cover.
Powerplay 1: 53 runs and 3 wickets are required in overs 0.1 to 6.0.
In the third over, Deepak Chahar gave up twelve runs, two of which were boundaries. Nevertheless, Deshpande took out the dangerous Abhishek Sharma (15 off 9) for his third wicket, leaving SRH in serious trouble. After completing the powerplay with 53 runs scored, the home team was completely stunned.
Sunrisers Hyderabad 72/4 in 8.5 overs after the first strategic timeout (Aiden Markram 28* off 22, Heinrich Klaasen 0* off 0).
Nitish Reddy and Aiden Markram did a respectable job rebuilding the SRH innings after three wickets fell in the powerplay. But in the fifth ball of the ninth over, Jadeja broke their 32-run partnership. Teams separated for a break when the CSK all-rounder struck out Reddy at 104 kph. Reddy then strolled back to the pavillion.
100 runs in 12.3 overs (75 balls) by Sunrisers Hyderabad
The 13th over saw SRH surpass 100 runs, although they lost one more wicket during that over. A yorker from Matheesha Pathirana crashed into Aiden Markram’s middle stump at a speed of 147 km/h (32 off 16).
During the second strategic timeout, Heinrich Klaasen (19* off 19) and Abdul Samad (12* off 14) helped Sunrisers Hyderabad score 109/5 in 15 overs.
Following the powerplay, SRH lost their cutting edge and only managed to hit two boundaries in nine overs. When the keeper-batter was unable to get his fingertips underneath the ball in the thirteenth over, MS Dhoni gave Abdul Samad a lifeline. SRH had reached the necessary rate of about 21 with 109 on their account when the umpire signalling for the second strategic break.
In 20.0 overs, Sunrisers Hyderabad scored 134/10 (Bhuvneshwar Kumar 4* off 3) to win the match.
In the sixteenth over, Pathirana dismissed Heinrich Klaasen, who posed a threat. With Abdul Samad out of the game in the following over, Hyderabad’s innings were finished. By dismissing SRH captain Pat Cummins, Tushar Deshpande secured his fourth wicket of the evening. In the 19th over, Mustafizur Rahman removed Shahbaz Ahmed and Jaydev Unadkat from the game, bowling out the opposition for 134 runs.
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