Chennai Super Kings scored 212 runs while batting first against Sunrisers Hyderabad, Ruturaj Gaikwad missed century, IPL CSK vs SRH

CSK vs SRH: After losing the toss, Chennai Super Kings, playing first, scored 212 runs on the scoreboard. Captain Ruturaj Gaikwad scored the most runs for CSK, who played a brilliant inning of 98 runs in 54 balls and took the team to a huge score. Apart from him, Daryl Mitchell also played a half-century innings. He scored 52 runs in 32 balls, during which he hit 7 fours and 1 six. In the last overs, Shivam Dubey thrashed the SRH bowlers a lot, scoring 39 runs in 20 balls. For Hyderabad, T Natarajan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Jaydev Unadkat took 1 wicket each.

The foundation of CSK's big score had been laid in the powerplay overs itself. Chennai had scored 50 runs after losing 1 wicket in the first 6 overs. Instead of slowing down, the run rate increased in the middle overs as an excellent partnership of 107 runs was seen between Ruturaj Gaikwad and Daryl Mitchell. After 15 overs, Chennai Super Kings had scored 148 runs at the loss of 2 wickets. The run rate was going to pick up very fast in the death overs as Shivam Dubey made his intentions clear as soon as he came to the crease. The team had scored 42 runs in the next 3 overs, due to which CSK had scored 192 runs in 18 overs. Gaikwad gave away his wicket in the 20th over, hitting 10 fours and 3 sixes in his innings of 98 runs. In the last over, MS Dhoni came and scored 5 runs in 2 balls. With this, SRH will have to score 213 runs to win.

SRH bowling

Sunrisers Hyderabad's bowling started well. Bhuvneshwar Kumar had given an initial blow to the opposition team by sending Ajinkya Rahane to the pavilion on the score of only 9 runs. But after that the bowlers were badly beaten. For SRH, only T Natarajan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Jaydev Unadkat were able to take wickets, who took 1 wicket each. Shahbaz Ahmed gave away 33 runs in 3 overs and Bhuvneshwar also gave away 38 runs. T Natarajan did take one wicket, but he also gave away runs at an economy rate of more than 10.

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