The struggles continue for the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) as they suffered a close loss against Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) in the match 14 of the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020. However, nothing to take away from SRH for keeping their cool even after losing Bhuvneshwar Kumar to injury in the crucial 19th over. They bowled brilliantly and it was all about their youngsters, Priyam Garg, Abdul Samad, and Abhishek Sharma, on the day.
After opting to bat first, Garg and Abhishek saved the sinking ship when the SRH was reeling at 69/4 after 11 overs. Garg took over the control of the innings in the 17th over when he smashed 22 runs off Sam Curran. Then Deepak Chahar went for 13 runs in the next over and eventually, SRH added 53 runs in the last four overs to end on 164 runs for the loss of five wickets. Priyam Garg remained unbeaten on 51 while Sharma scored 31 before getting out.
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Jonny Bairstow bagged a duck getting out in the first over to Chahar. Warner scraped his way to 28 before getting out while Kane Williamson was involved in a horror mix-up with Garg to leave the team struggling at 69/4 after 11 overs. In the end, they reached a defendable score of 164/5 in their quota of 20 overs.
Yet again, CSK failed to get the much-needed start. Shane Watson eventually was dismissed by Bhuvneshwar Kumar and suddenly, CSK had nothing on the board after three overs. Before they can recover, T Natarajan bowled a ripper of a delivery to get rid of Ambati Rayudu, and then Faf du Plessis was run-out after misjudging a single. By the end of nine overs, CSK was down to 42/4 then MS Dhoni was joined by Ravindra Jadeja joined him as they resurrected the innings first.
The equation came down to CSK requiring 78 runs in the last four overs. Both the batsmen, Jadeja and Dhoni, were set by then and the former decided to up the ante finally. The southpaw scored three consecutive fours off Bhuvi to eke out 15 runs in the 17th over. But T Natarajan came back well to get him caught in the deep. However, Sam Curran came out and pulled a bouncer to the six off the first ball.
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Things turned on its head when Bhuvi pulled up in his run-up and despite trying so hard, he had to go back to the pavilion and Khaleel Ahmed completing his over. Te southpaw pacer left 28 runs to save in the final over. Abdul Samad was given the responsibility to defend against MS Dhoni and to SRH’s agony. However, after running a couple even while struggling to run, Dhoni smacked a four to bring it down to 17 off the last four. Eventually, the youngster managed to restrict CSK to help the team win by 7 runs.
Hits
T Natarajan
After being nailing yorkers in the game against Delhi Capitals (DC), T Natarajan continued his form against CSK as he scalped Amabti Raydu in his second over itself. He also took the wicket Ravindra Jadeja while gave away just 43 runs in his quota of four overs.
Priyam Garg
Sunrisers Hyderabad youngster, Priyam Garg scored a scintillating half-century despite the team reeling at 69 for 4 by the end of 11 overs. While wickets were falling at regular intervals from the other end, Rohit smashed 22 runs in the 17th over. He amassed 51* off 26 balls with the help of one 6 and six 4s.
Flops
Kedar Jadhav
The story continued as the Punjab batsmen kept coming in and going back. Although Kedar Jadhav and MS Dhoni tried to save the sinking sink of CSK but failed to take the team over the line. Jadhav scored just 3 runs in 10 balls.
Shane Watson
Barring the game against RR when Karun Nair scored 33 off 21 balls, he has been nothing but a failure of CSK so far and his bad form continued against SRHas well. He was dismissed early by Bhuvneshwar Kumar.
