Currently, last season’s finalist, Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) are locking horns with each other in the 41st match of the ongoing season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai. After winning the toss, the CSK skipper, MS Dhoni asked the visitors to bat first. However, SRH faced a huge blow as their in-form opener, Jonny Bairstow got out on a duck in his last game of IPL 2019.

During the toss, the SRH toss, Bhuvneshwar Kumar said that they have made two changes in their squad as Manish Pandey and Shakib Al Hasan replaced Kane Williamson and Shahbaz Nadeem in the squad. However, CSK made just one change as Shardul Thakur made way for the veteran Harbhajan Singh.

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Harbhajan’s inclusion paid rich dividends for CSK as he picked the first two wickets for them. Firstly, he dismissed Bairstow in the 2nd over followed by the wicket of David Warner in the 14th over. After the early dismissal of Bairstow, Manish Pandey and Warner started slogging the CSK bowlers all over the park. They amassed as many as 54 runs in the powerplay and surprisingly, Manish was scoring at the higher strike-rate. 

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Pandey and Warner added 111 runs for the second wicket before the latter getting out in the 14th over as he was looking tired as well due to the intense humidity of Chennai. During the partnership, Manish scared Deepak Chahar with his ferocious shot in the 5th over. On the third ball of the over, Chahar delivered a full ball on off stump and with his ferocious straight shot, he nearly takes the bowler’s head, who was in his follow through.

Here is the video of the same:

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