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In the 43rd match of IPL-18, Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) defeated Chennai Super Kings (CSK) by 5 wickets. This is the seventh defeat of CSK this season. This defeat has made it difficult for Chennai’s playoffs. The team will now have to win all five matches and depend on other teams as well.
On Friday, Hyderabad won the toss at MA Chidambaram Stadium (Chepock) and decided to bowl. Chennai was all out for 154 runs in 19.5 overs. Dewald Bravis scored the highest 42 runs from the team. Harshal Patel took 4 wickets from SRH. In response, Hyderabad achieved target by losing 5 wickets in 18.4 overs.
Ishaan Kishan scored 44 and Kamindu Mendis scored 32 runs for Hyderabad. Noor Ahmed took 2 wickets from Chennai.
Match analysis in 5 points …
1. Player of the Match
Harshal Patel, who came to bowl in the fifth over of Chennai’s innings, overturned the match. He dismissed Sam Karan in his first over. After this, the batsman Dewald Brevis set on the last ball of the 13th over was sent to the pavilion. Harshal took 4 wickets for 28 runs in 4 overs.
2. Hero of victory
- Kamindu Mendis: Kamindu Mendis caught a brilliant catch by diving on the long off of Dewald Bravis, playing for 42 runs. After this wicket, Chennai’s team could add only 40 runs after losing the last 5 wickets. Kamindu also bowled 3 overs and bowled Ravindra Jadeja for 26 runs. Not only this, Kamindu along with Nitish Reddy added 49 runs for the sixth wicket. Kamindu scored an unbeaten 32 runs.
- Jaydev Unadkat: Jaydev Unadkat, who came to bowl in the middle overs, sent Shivam Dubey to the pavilion cheaply. Dubey could only score 12 runs. While doing affordable bowling, Unadkat conceded 21 runs in 2.5 overs and dismissed 2 batters. He also caught Deepak Hooda out.
- Ishaan Kishan: Ishaan Kishan handled Hyderabad’s innings after openers returned to the pavilion. He added 36 runs with Aniket Verma. Ishaan scored 44 runs on 34 balls.
3. Fighter of the Match
Dewald Brevis, playing the first match for Chennai, was seen fighting in the match. He scored 42 runs on 25 balls. In one over of Kamindu Mendis, Brevis intensified Chennai’s innings with 3 sixes. Apart from dewald, Noor Ahmed took 2 wickets for CSK in the bowling department. He dismissed Ishaan Kishan and Aniket Verma.
4. Turning point
The Hyderabad team did a spectacular bowling from the beginning. The team conceded only 27 runs in the last 4 overs and dismissed 4 Chennai batsmen. This proved to be the turning point of the match here. Jaydev Unadkat and captain Pat Cummins bowled brilliantly in the final overs.
Jaydev Unadkat and Pat Cummins took 2–2 wickets.
5. Noor came in third place
Chennai’s Chinaman spinner Noor Ahmed returned to the Purple Cap Leaderboard by dismissing 2 Hyderabad batsmen. He now has 14 wickets in 9 matches. The first place is the famous Krishna of Gujarat and Josh Hazlewood of Bangalore on the second.
The Orange Cap Leaderboard has the top run scorer of Gujarat’s Sai Sudarshan tournament, he has 417 runs. Virat Kohli is second with 392 runs. SRH has won the third match and reached the eighth position in the points table. Chennai is on the last position.