Hyderabad18 april. After the stormy half-centuries of opener Abhishek Sharma (59 runs, 22 balls, four sixes, six fours) and Heinrich Klaasen (59 runs, 39 balls, two sixes, six fours), pacemen Ishan Malinga (3-29) and Nitish Kumar Reddy (2-31) and other bowlers trapped the batsmen of five-time former champion Chennai Super Kings (CSK). The result was that Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) won by 10 runs in the Tata Indian Premier League (IPL-19) match which lasted till the last over here on Saturday night.

Hyderabad team, forced to bat first at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Uppal, despite the explosive innings of Abhishek and Klaasen, reached 194 runs for nine wickets as Anshul Kamboj (3-22), Jamie Overton (3-37) and Mukesh Choudhary (2-21) dismissed the other batsmen cheaply. In reply, ‘Player of the Match’ Malinga and Nitish and company stopped CSK from reaching the score of 184 for eight wickets.

SRH moves to fourth place with third win

This was the third win in six matches for SRH led by Ishan Kishan and the Hyderabadi team has now reached fourth place with six points. However, after defeating RCB by six wickets with one ball remaining during the day, Delhi Capitals team reached the fourth position, overtaking Gujarat Titans. But now both these teams are at fifth and sixth position respectively despite having equal six points each. At the same time, this was the fourth defeat of Ruturaj Gaikwad and Company in six matches, which had won the last two consecutive matches and now they are in seventh place with four points.

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Not a single batsman could reach a half-century in CSK’s innings. Reddy disappointed Sanju Samson (seven runs, one six), who had written his name on the first century of the season during the match against Delhi Capitals, in the very second over. After that the run rate was fine and at the end of the power play, 76 runs were on the board, one run more than SRH.

Partnership of 51 runs between Gaikwad and Ayush

But Ayush Mhatre (30 runs, 13 balls, one six, five fours), who made a partnership of 51 runs with Gaikwad (19 runs, 13 balls, three fours), stopped due to hamstring injury, while top scorers Matthew Short (34 runs, 30 balls, three fours) and Sarfaraz Khan (25 runs, 19 balls, three fours) also could not extend their innings.

After this, due to the efforts of Shivam Dubey (21 runs, 16 balls, one six, one four), Jamie Overton (16 runs, 15 balls, one four) and Anshul Kamboj (13 runs not out, eight balls, one six), the team remained 11 runs away from the target. Apart from Malinga and Reddy, Shivang Kumar, Saqib Hussain and Prafulla Hinge shared three wickets among themselves.

Abhishek and Travis Head scored 75 runs in 35 balls.

Earlier, Abhishek, who had scored a fifty in 15 balls in SRH’s innings, along with Travis Head (23 runs, 20 balls, one six, three fours) scored 75 runs in 35 balls. But then Choudhary returned consecutive balls to Head and Ishan Kishan (0). Then Abhishek also did not go far and became Overton’s first victim.

With the help of his third half-century, Klaasen becomes Orange Cap leaderboard

However, after this, Klaasen took charge and kept increasing the score in the presence of other fellow batsmen. In this sequence, he became the Orange Cap leaderboard with the help of his third half-century of the season in 32 balls. When Kamboj finally returned him as the sixth batsman in the 18th over, there were 177 runs on the board. In the end, Salil Arora (13 runs, 12 balls, two fours) and Shivang Kumar (12 runs, eight balls, one six, one four) took the team to 194 runs, which later proved to be enough.

sunday matches : : Kolkata Knight Riders vs Rajasthan Royals (Kolkata, 3.30 PM), Punjab Kings vs Lucknow Super Giants (New Chandigarh, 7.30 PM).