Sunrisers Hyderabad has defeated Chennai Super Kings by 12 runs. In this match played in Hyderabad, SRH team batted first and scored 194 runs. At one time the Chennai team was moving towards an easy victory, because it needed 84 runs in the last 10 overs. Ishan Malinga came in the middle overs and gave a double blow to Chennai. Shivam Dubey was Chennai’s last hope, but the entire CSK team got frustrated due to the deadly bowling of Saqib Hussain and Nitish Kumar Reddy.
Chennai lost the won game
Chennai Super Kings team, which came to chase the target of 195 runs, had at one time scored 111 runs in 10 overs and had 7 wickets left in their hands. CSK needed 84 runs in 60 balls. With 7 wickets in hand, victory seemed very easy for Chennai. Then Ishan Malinga dismissed Sarfaraz Khan on the fourth ball of the 11th over. It was from here that the match took a turn.
Dewald Brevis also left after 6 balls of Sarfaraz. Somehow Ishan Malinga made a comeback for Hyderabad with those 2 wickets when he dismissed Sarfaraz Khan and Matthew Short. Malinga started dominating CSK’s batting line-up by dismissing both the set batsmen.
Where Chennai’s score was 111 runs for 3 wickets, but within no time CSK had lost 7 wickets by reaching 154 runs. Shivam Dubey was completely dodged by Saqib Hussain’s ball and was clean bowled.
The tables turned in the last moments
The big players of Chennai including Shivam Dubey, Matthew Short were out. Jamie Overton took over. The situation was such that CSK had to score 30 runs in the last 12 balls. Nitish Kumar Reddy gave 12 runs in the 19th over. Now Chennai had to score 18 runs in 6 balls. 3 runs came on the first 2 balls, but Praful Hinge no-balled the next ball. The good thing was that a six did not come on the free-hit. Praful proved to be very expensive in the entire match, but in the last over, he bowled yorker after yorker and ensured Hyderabad’s victory by dismissing Jamie Overton on the fourth ball.
