Chennai Super Kings defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad by 6 wickets in the 41st match of the IPL 2019 played in Chennai's MA Chidambaram Stadium. With this victory, Chennai Super Kings have come in first place with 16 points and are cemented the place in playoffs.
Sunrisers Hyderabad, batting first and scored 175-3 in 20 overs, in response Chennai Super Kings scored 176/4 in 19.5 overs. Shane Watson (96) was adjudged man of the match for his finest innings.
Sunrisers Hyderabad Innings:
Earlier, Chennai won the toss and opted to bowl first. Batting first, Hyderabad started very poorly and the team lost the wicket of Bairstow (0), who was playing his last match of the season in the 2nd over. However, Warner and Manish Pandey counter-attacked and scored 54-1 in 6 overs.
Warner and Pandey added a fantastic 115-run stand for the second wicket, Warner scored 57 off 45. However, after Warner was dismissed, Shankar and Pandey added 33-ball 47-runs and finally, Pandey scored unbeaten 83 runs. For Chennai,, Harbhajan took 2 wickets and Deepak Chahar took one wicket.
Chennai Super Kings Innings:
Chasing the target of 176 runs, Chennai got off to a bad start and in the fourth over they lost opener Faf du Plessis (1) and CSK scores 49-1 after the powerplay. Raina and Watson scored a wonderful partnership of 77 runs in 45 balls, Raina scored 38 runs off 25 balls.
After Raina's dismissal, Watson did not stop and he continued his aggressive style, in the meantime, he also got a good a partnership with Ambati Rayudu and shared 80 runs in 43 balls and Watson scored 96 runs.
In the end, Rayudu (21) was dismissed in the last over, but Kedar Jadhav (11) remained unbeaten in the last over to give the team victory. For SRH, Sandeep Sharma, Rashid Khan and Bhuvneshwar Kumar took one wicket each.
3 Big records created during the match:
1. Shane Watson becomes only the second Australian to cross 8000 runs in T20 Cricket...
Most consecutive 50-plus scores in IPL:
5 - Virender Sehwag, 2012
5 - Jos Buttler, 2018
5 - DAVID WARNER, 2019*
Most 50-plus scores against CSK in IPL:
6 - Shikhar Dhawan
6 - Virat Kohli
6 - Rohit Sharma
6 - DAVID WARNER*
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