Pacer Harshal Patel starred with 4-28 as Sunrisers Hyderabad beat Chennai Super Kings by five wickets in an IPL match here on Friday
SRH’s Harshal Patel celebrates with skipper Pat Cummins after dismissing CSK’s Dewald Brevis in Chennai yesterday. Pic/Getty Images
Chasing 155, SRH reached the finish line with eight balls to spare, thanks to a composed 44 off 34 balls from top-order batter Ishan Kishan and an unbeaten 32 off 22 deliveries by Kamindu Mendis. Wrist-spinner Noor Ahmad finished with figures of 2-42. This is SRH’s maiden victory over CSK at Chepauk. Earlier, in what was a probable must-win match for both sides, SRH bowlers executed their plans to perfection, bowling out five-time champions CSK for a modest 154 all out in their own den.
Harshal, who cleverly used change of pace, was complemented well by skipper Pat Cummins (2-21), ambidextrous spinner Kamindu Mendis (1-26), veterans Mohammed Shami (1-28) and Jaydev Unadkat (2-21). Dewald Brevis (42 off 25) was the top scorer, while Deepak Hooda (22 off 21) played some lofty shots towards the end to take CSK above the 150-run mark.
CSK captain MS Dhoni against SRH yesterday. Pic/AFP
Sent into bat, CSK witnessed a horrendous start as they lost Shaik Rasheed of the first ball off Shami, caught by Abhishek Sharma at first slip. It was a perfect Test match delivery, pitched on length outside off, shaping away with the batter just poking at it. Young Ayush Mhatre (30 off 19) was, however, going great guns, picking up boundaries at will with his attacking batting against Shami, SRH skipper Pat Cummins and Unadkat.
Sam Curran was the next CSK wicket to depart as he top-edged a Harshal Patel delivery to Aniket Verma at deep midwicket. There was more agony in store for CSK as a set Mhatre was holed out by Ishan Kishan off Cummins in the sixth over as the hosts managed only 50-3 in the Powerplay on a sluggish surface. In the seventh over, Patel dropped a dolly off Zeeshan Ansari to hand Ravindra Jadeja (21) a life and the veteran India batter utilised the life to struck Ansari over long on for a huge six.
But Jadeja’s stay was cut short by Kamindu Mendis, cleaning up his stumps soon. At the halfway mark, CSK reached 76 for four in 10 overs. But Shivam Dube (12 off 9) and Brevis (42 off 25) had other plans as they took the attack to the opposition with their power hitting.
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