Sunrisers Hyderabad beat Chennai Super Kings by 7 runs at Dubai International Cricket Stadium in Dubai yesterday night and clinched their second win of the tournament while Chennai Super Kings suffered their third consecutive loss.
Earlier Sunrisers Hyderabad won the toss and opted to bat first but Jonny Bairstow got out for a duck off Deepak Chahar bowling. David Warner and Manish Pandey rebuilt the innings but both batsmen couldn't convert their starts into big knocks and later Kane Williamson also got run out and at 69/4 in 11 overs Sunrisers was in deep trouble but youngsters Priyam Garg and Abhishek Sharma counter-attacked and added 77 runs in the next 7 overs and took the score to over 150 runs and eventually Hyderabad finished on 164/5 in 20 overs. Priyam Garg scored 51* runs off just 25 balls while Abhishek Sharma played 31 runs knock.
In reply, Chennai Super Kings had a poor start and out of form, Shane Watson got out for just 1 run off Bhuvneshwar Kumar bowling. Ambati Rayudu too couldn't do much and was bowled out by T Natrajan for a single digit. Faf du Plessis played a few good shots but he got run out and at 36/3 Chennai was on the back foot. Kedar Jadhav too failed and Super Kings reduced to 42/4 in 9th over. MS Dhoni and Ravindra Jadeja started to rebuild the innings but they couldn't score quick runs.
In the end, Jadeja played a few big shots and brought up his maiden IPL fifty and got out on the score of 50. In the second last over MS Dhoni hit a four and a six and thus kept Chennai alive in the match. Bhuvneshwar Kumar had got injured and in his absence, Abdul Samad had to bowl the last over. Chennai needed 28 runs in the last over but they could manage 20 runs and lost the match by 7 runs.
All the major stats and facts from the 14th match between Chennai Super Kings and Sunrisers Hyderabad in Dubai.
1 - Ravindra Jadeja scored his first-ever fifty in IPL. It took him 174 matches to score maiden IPL fifty and Hyderabad's Priyam Garg also scored his first IPL fifty.
4 - This was Sunrisers Hyderabad's only 4th win over Chennai Super Kings in IPL. They have played a total of 13 matches against Chennai in this league.
50 - This was Rashid Khan's 50th appearance for Sunrisers Hyderabad in IPL. He has taken 59 wickets in 50 IPL matches.
Most appearances for SRH in IPL -
90 - Bhuvneshwar Kumar
85 - Shikhar Dhawan
75 - David Warner
56 - Naman Ojha
50 - Rashid Khan
194 - Number of appearances MS Dhoni has made in IPL - the most by any player in this league.
Most appearances in IPL (By players) -
194 - MS Dhoni
193 - Suresh Raina
192 - Rohit Sharma
185 - Dinesh Karthik
180 - Virat Kohli / Robin Uthappa
2000 runs & 100 wickets - Ravindra Jadeja became the first-ever player to complete the double of 2000 runs and 100 wickets in IPL. He has 2000 runs and 110 wickets in 174 matches to his name.
