Pat Cummins’ lethal bowling, Brevis played the biggest innings for CSK, Chennai gave the target of 181 runs to Hyderabad.

IPL 2026: The 63rd match of the Indian Premier League 2026 is being played between Chennai Super Kings and Sunrisers Hyderabad at Chepauk Stadium. Chennai won the toss and batted first and scored 180 runs for 7 wickets. Dewald Brevis played the highest innings of 44 runs for Chennai. Whereas Hyderabad captain Pat Cummins took 3 wickets.

Sanju Samson returned to the pavilion early

Captain Ruturaj Gaikwad and Sanju Samson started the innings of Chennai Super Kings. Both the openers batted well in the first two overs, but then Pat Cummins gave the first blow to Chennai Super Kings by scoring 31 runs in the third over. He sent Sanju Samson to the pavilion. Sanju was out after scoring 27 runs on 13 balls.

Pat Cummins took 3 wickets

Saqib Hussain has given the second blow to Chennai Super Kings. He has appointed Urvil Patel. Urvil was out after scoring 13 runs on 8 balls, then Cummins gave the third blow to Chennai Super Kings. He made Karthik Sharma his victim. Karthik scored 32 runs on 19. After this, Cummins gave the fourth blow to Chennai Super Kings. Gaikwad scored 15 runs on 21 balls.

Coming in clutch! 🙌

Captain Pat Cummins with a 3⃣-for already 🧡🔥

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Dewald Brevis played match winning innings for CSK

After this, Dewald Brewis played a brilliant innings to get Chennai Super Kings out of trouble, but then they were chased by Ishan Malinga. Brevis scored 44 runs on 27 balls. Then Shivam Dubey became the victim of Saqib Hussain after scoring 26 runs in 23 balls. Prashant Veer scored 11 runs. In this way Chennai scored 180 runs for 7 wickets.

Shivam Dube 🤝 Dewald Brevis

🎥 The two set batters raising the run rate for #CSK 👊

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This is the playing 11 of both the teams:

Playing 11 of Chennai Super Kings: Sanju Samson (W), Ruturaj Gaikwad (C), Urvil Patel, Karthik Sharma, Dewald Brewis, Shivam Dubey, Prashant Veer, Akeal Hosein, Noor Ahmed, Anshul Kamboj, Spencer Johnson.

Impact Players of Chennai Super Kings – Impact Players of Mukesh Chaudhary, Matthew Short, Sarfaraz Khan, Aman Khan, Gurjapaneet Singh

Playing 11 of Sunrisers Hyderabad: Abhishek Sharma, Ishan Kishan (wicketkeeper), Heinrich Klaasen, Salil Arora, Smaran Ravichandran, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Pat Cummins (captain), Shivang Kumar, Ishan Malinga, Saqib Hussain, Prafulla Hinge.

Sunrisers Hyderabad Impact Players – Travis Head, Aniket Verma, Liam Livingstone, Harsh Dubey, Harshal Patel

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