SRH vs CSK IPL 2024: Sunrisers Hyderabad and Chennai Super Kings came face to face in IPL 2024 on 5 April. Playing first, CSK scored 165 runs thanks to Shivam Dubey’s stormy innings and Ajinkya Rahane’s 35 runs. In this, captain Rituraj Gaikwad also contributed 26 runs. At the same time, Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma gave SRH a great and fast start to chase the target. But after the powerplay overs, Hyderabad’s batting also slowed down. In such a situation, the bowlers made Chennai comeback, but SRH had a lot of wickets left, so the team’s batsmen took an aggressive stance even on the slow pitch and gave the team a 6-wicket win.
By the 15th over, SRH’s score was 135 for 3 and they needed 31 runs in the last 5 overs. This looks like a very easy score, but it was not easy for SRH to do so on a low-scoring pitch. On the third ball of the 16th over, Moeen Ali dismissed Shahbaz Ahmed, who was set at the crease, on a score of 18 runs. The match became exciting and SRH needed 15 runs in the last 18 balls. The 9 runs scored by Tushar Deshpande in the 18th over made the match one-sided. Hyderabad needed only 6 runs to win in the last 2 overs. Nitish Reddy hit a six on the first ball of the 19th over and gave SRH a big win.
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Excellent game by Shivam Dubey and Aiden Markram
Chennai Super Kings batted first, but CSK looked in trouble due to slow innings of 26 runs and 35 runs by Rituraj Gaikwad and Ajinkya Rahane. In such a situation, Shivam Dubey’s innings of 45 runs in 24 balls at a strike rate of 187.5 played an important role in taking the team to a respectable score of 165 runs. On the other hand, Abhishek Sharma and Travis Head gave SRH a great start, but after their dismissal, Aiden Markram took over the innings. Markram scored 50 runs in 36 balls, hitting 4 fours and 1 six.
Earlier, host Hyderabad won the toss and decided to bowl first. The final XI of both the teams playing in the match is as follows:
Chennai 11
Rituraj Gaikwad (captain), Rachin Ravindra, Ajinkya Rahane, Moeen Ali, Darrell Mitchell, Shivam Dubey, Ravindra Jadeja, MS Dhoni (wicketkeeper), Deepak Chahar, Tushar Deshpande, Mahesh Thikshana.
Hyderabad 11
Abhishek Sharma, Aiden Markram, Heinrich Klaasen (wicketkeeper), Abdul Samad, Nitish Reddy, Shahbaz Ahmed, Pat Cummins (captain), Jaydev Unadkat, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mayank Markande, T Natarajan