Sunrisers Hyderabad 166 for 4 (Markram 50, Abhishek 37, Head 31, Moeen 2-23) beat Chennai Tremendous Kings 165 for five (Dube 45, Rahane 35, Bhuvneshwar 1-28, Cummins 1-29) by six wickets
CSK had scored 30 runs fewer of their powerplay and their batting machine was shut down within the slog overs too.
Dube does Dube issues
Rachin Ravindra was dismissed by Bhuvneshwar Kumar for 12 off 9 balls within the fourth over. Ruturaj Gaikwad received off to a begin, however Shahbaz Ahmed, the left-arm fingerspinner, had him swiping a catch to long-on for 26 off 21 balls.
Ajinkya Rahane hit Cummins and Bhuvneshwar excessive for boundaries within the powerplay, however he struggled to get the ball away as soon as it turned softer and the sphere was unfold out within the center overs.
Dube additionally lined up T Natarajan, who was getting back from damage, for back-to-back sixes earlier than Cummins stopped him on 45 off 24 balls. The Sunrisers captain hid a slower quick ball away from Dube’s swinging arc and had him popping a catch to backward level.
SRH pin down CSK
CSK may rating solely 50 runs of their final seven overs. Cummins, Natarajan and Unadkat stored taking tempo off the ball. CSK’s power-hitters did not manufacture tempo for themselves on the night time.
Rahane was undone by a 105kph slower supply whereas Mitchell fell to an on-pace Natarajan supply that stopped within the pitch. Ravindra Jadeja’s down-the-track swatted 4 off a 111kph cutter from Unadkat was solely an aberration.
The decibel ranges soared when MS Dhoni got here out to bat at No.7, forward of Moeen Ali, with simply three balls left in CSK’s innings. However even he may handle just one off two balls.
Head, Abhishek tear up the powerplay
With the goal in entrance of them and the information that the pitch would change into even slower later within the night time, Sunrisers maximised the powerplay.
In line with ESPNcricinfo’s logs, Sunrisers tried to hit 16 balls within the powerplay to the boundary. CSK, then again, had seemed to hit solely eight balls to the boundary throughout that section.
Travis Head stayed leg-side of the ball and cracked Deepak Chahar and Tushar Deshpande by means of the off aspect. He completed with 31 off 24 balls. He may have been dismissed on 0 within the very first over had Moeen not dropped him at slip.
After Head and Abhishek departed, Markram managed the chase with a half-century. Moeen trapped Markram (50) and Shahbaz (18) lbw with the previous ball, nevertheless it was too late for CSK. Sunrisers had already inflicted irreparable injury within the powerplay.
Deivarayan Muthu is a sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo
