Sunrisers Hyderabad Beat Chennai Super Kings by 10 Runs: In an important match of IPL 2026, Sunrisers Hyderabad has defeated Chennai Super Kings by runs. While the host team had the upper hand at the Rajiv Gandhi Stadium, all the efforts of CSK failed, and the ‘Orange Army’ won by 10 runs. With this win, SRH has 6 points from 6 matches this season and has reached fourth place in the points table.
SRH’s brilliant batting
Chennai Super Kings captain Riturat Gaikwad won the toss and asked Sunrisers Hyderabad to bat first. The host team made a great start in both the openers and started thrashing CSK bowlers. Abhishek Sharma scored a quick 59 runs with the help of 6 fours and 4 sixes in just 22 balls, during which his strike rate was 268.18. After scoring 23 runs in 20 balls, he was out on the ball of Mukesh Chaudhary. The team had high expectations from Ishan Kishan, but the captain returned to the pavilion without opening the account.
Klaasen showed his strength
After this, Heinrich Klaasen, playing very responsibly, scored 59 runs in 39 balls, however, after this the wickets of the Hyderabad team started falling one after the other, and all the batsmen started scattering like a pack of cards. However, they scored 194 runs after losing 9 wickets in 20 overs. Talking about bowling, for CSK, Jamie Overton and Anjush Kamboj got 3 wickets each, while Mukesh Chaudhary got 2 wickets.
Chennai’s flop batting
While chasing the target of 195 runs, Chennai Super Kings got a big blow in the second over itself when Sanju Samson became the victim of Nitish Kumar Reddy after scoring just 7 runs. Ayush Mhatre, who came at number three, started hitting shots fast, but Nitish showed him the way to the pavilion on the personal score of 30 runs. Chennai got the third blow in the form of captain Ruturaj Gaikwad, he failed this time too, he scored only 19 runs, he was caught out by Ishan Malinga at the hands of wicketkeeper Salil Arora. After this, Sarfaraz looked aggressive but he could score only 25 runs in 19 balls.
Chennai lagged by 10 runs
After the fall of 4 wickets, the Yellow Army had high expectations from Dewald Bracey, but Shivang Kumar made him duck out. Matthew Short protected the wicket for a long time but he became the victim of Ishan Malinga after scoring 34 runs in 30 balls. For SRH, the hero of the last match, Saqib Hussain, again clean bowled Shivam Dubey with his brilliant bowling. The last nail in the coffin of Chennai came in the fourth ball of the 20th over when Jamie Overton was caught out in 16 balls. In 20 overs, the visiting team could score only 184 runs after losing 8 wickets.
Ishaan Maling became the hero of victory
Ishan Malinga of Sri Lanka, while bowling for Sunrisers Hyderabad, sent 3 batsmen back to the pavilion by giving 29 runs in 4 overs with an economy rate of 7.25. Nitish Kumar Reddy gave him full support by taking 2 wickets. Malinga received the Player of the Match award for this spell.
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