Chennai Super Kings (CSK) took on Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) in the 14th match of Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Friday (October 2).
SRH eventually rode on Priyam Garg’s 51 off 26 balls and Abhishek Sharma’s 24-ball 31 to post 164/5 in 20 overs. The pair of Priyam and Abhishek shared a 77-run stand for the fifth wicket when Sunrisers were reeling at 61/4.
For CSK, Deepak Chahar was the stand-out bowler, claiming 2 wickets by conceding 31 runs in his four overs.
Defending the total, SRH reduced CSK to 42/4. Although the duo of MS Dhoni and Ravindra Jadeja added 72 runs for the fifth wicket, they were quite slow in their approach and failed to keep the required run-rate under check.
CSK needed 51 runs off 14 balls when Jadeja got out after scoring 35-ball 50. Sam Curran then joined Dhoni in the middle and the duo tried their best by smashing 36 runs off the last two overs but CSK eventually fell 7 runs of the target. While Dhoni remained unbeaten on 36-ball 47, Curran finished with 15 not out off 5 balls.
Bhuvneshwar Kumar was the pick of the bowlers for Sunrisers, taking 1 for 20 in his 3.1 overs. While T Natarajan gave away 43 runs in his four overs, he got the prized scalp of Ambati Rayudu and Jadeja.
Cricket experts on Twitter lauded the young duo of Priyam Garg and Abhishek Sharma after SRH’s win over CSK.
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