A brilliant spell from Pat Cummins has put SRH on momentum after bagging three crucial wickets in the IPL 2026 game against Chennai Super Kings at Chepauk.
He bagged the wickets of Sanju Samson, Kartik Sharma and Ruturaj Gaikwad at crucial times to put pressure on the home side.
After choosing to bat first, Sanju Samson and Ruturaj Gaikwad opened the innings while Nitish Reddy opened the bowling attack.
Despite a brilliant start from Samson, he could not convert the start as he got dismissed by Pat Cummins for 27 runs. He got dismissed on a length delivery outside off where the ball got thick outside edge as Ishan Kishan picked the catch behind the wickets.
Urvil Patel who came to bat at No.3, showed some intent with couple of sixes, but got dismissed cheaply by Sakib Hussain. He got dismissed on off cutter where the batter goes for pull and misses as the ball hits off stump.
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Captain Pat Cummins with a 3⃣-for already 🧡🔥
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With Ruturaj Gaikwad and Kartik Sharma at crease, CSK scored 57 runs in the powerplay.
A cameo from Kartik Sharma helped the side to stabilise the innings. However a brilliant over from Pat Cummins bagged the wicket of Kartik for 32 runs.
He got dismissed on a wide short delivery where the batter hit the ball straight to man stationed at sweeper cover. With the dismissal of Ruturaj Gaikwad for 15 runs, CSK lost four wicket for 100.
Chennai Super Kings Playing 11: Sanju Samson (wk), Ruturaj Gaikwad (c), Urvil Patel, Kartik Sharma, Dewald Brevis, Shivam Dube, Prashant Veer, Akeal Hosein, Noor Ahmad, Anshul Kamboj, Spencer Johnson.
Sunrisers Hyderabad Playing 11: Abhishek Sharma, Ishan Kishan (wk), Heinrich Klaasen, Salil Arora, Smaran Ravichandran, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Pat Cummins (c), Shivang Kumar, Eshan Malinga, Sakib Hussain, Praful Hinge.
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