- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR7.6 Woof, what a ripper out of nowhere. Back of a length and just shapes away from Abhishek. The ball flies off the pitch and towards Sanju, who insists on a review. Could be a faint edge here... And there's a big spike as the ball passes bat. Just like that, Abhishek's been taken out! 93/35.5 Can you believe this? The worst ball of the over, a full toss offered up right outside off. Head boshes this one and somehow spears it straight to Gaikwad stationed at mid-off for that exact shot. How did he find the fielder off that ball! The ebbs and flows of T20 cricket, you suppose... 75/15.6 Slammed straight to mid-off! Mistimed this ball outside off. Kishan just swings at it like he's wielding an axe too heavy in his hand. Loses his shape and deposits it to Gaikwad once more. He's taken two in two. Welp (for SRH fans)... It's game on for the CSK ones! 75/217.2 drags this back onto the stumps! Kamboj's impressive season continues. What a massive moment. Once again it's the angle that he takes across from wide of the crease, Klaasen believes he's got room to scythe this behind point, apparently not. Drags back. 177/610.1 and the slide continues. Overton goes hard-length on middle-and-off, Aniket looks to take on the short ball but ends up skewing it high off the bat to midwicket. No timing or power, and he was very late on the shot. 112/413.5 another one bites the dust and Overton's surge continues. NKR looks to muscle this over long-on but the ball got a tad bigger on him which meant he didn't get the kind of elevation he would've liked. Well held at long-on. Had the promise of a more-impactful innings. Short was a couple of yards in, so he had to leap high to get to that and he did that quite nicely. 147/518.1 straight into Brewis' mitts at deep cover! Gurjapneet does well to bowl full and take this across, somewhat away from his hitting arc. Arora does well to reach that but he's also taking on the longest pocket at the ground, finds Brewis intercepting that with ridiculous ease. 179/719.6 swung away straight down deep midwicket's throat! Low full toss, Livingstone hit it well but ended up picking out the lone man in the deep. The SRH innings has decelerated sensationally. CSK will be mighty happy with this comeback. SRH have crossed their previous-best of 192 against CSK, but the 200 remains elusive. 194/919.4 looks for a repeat, but the angle was far wider and across the batter, Shivang still goes through with the shot and ends up tamely looping it to Gurjapneet at short fine leg. Clever bowling, Kamboj's impressive season continues. 193/8Extras13 (b 5, lb 4, w 4)TOTAL194/9 (20 Overs, RR: 9.7)Fall of wickets: 1-75 (Travis Head, 5.5 ov), 2-75 (Ishan Kishan, 5.6 ov), 3-93 (Abhishek Sharma, 7.6 ov), 4-112 (Aniket Verma, 10.1 ov), 5-147 (Nitish Kumar Reddy, 13.5 ov), 6-177 (Heinrich Klaasen, 17.2 ov), 7-179 (Salil Arora, 18.1 ov), 8-193 (Shivang Kumar, 19.4 ov), 9-194 (Liam Livingstone, 19.6 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ 0s 4s 6s WD NB MW Short 3 0 38 0 12.66 5 3 3 1 0 Mukesh Choudhary 2 0 21 2 10.5 6 3 1 0 0 A Kamboj 3 0 22 3 7.33 10 3 1 0 0 Noor Ahmad 4 0 33 0 8.25 7 3 1 1 0 J Overton 4 0 37 3 9.25 5 4 0 1 0 Gurjapneet Singh 4 0 34 1 8.5 12 2 3 1 0
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- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR1.1 Samson's shovelled this right up in the air, and by the time it comes down, Klaasen collects it in his mits! He put out his hands and called for this quite early. The ball was back of a length, rushing Samson by rising right at him. Cramped on the pull and got the top-edge 15/15.1 Malinga's struck first up! Bangs this in short and it is slanting down leg side. Gaikwad goes for a pull but one hand comes off the bat's handle. Ball bumps into his glove and rises in the air. Keeper there to collect this safely 66/34.4 And now to add to all that, Klaasen pulls out an absolute ripper of a catch at extra cover! Mhatre smashed this way away from his body, on a length outside off. No timing on this but it's still flying past Klaasen. He stretches in the air, absolutely taut in his posture, and plucks it out of thin air towards his left 66/215.4 that is a sensational catch from Aniket. Don't let the lack of celebration from fooling you into believing otherwise. This was full and angling into the pads, it was hit hard and flat to Aniket, the boundary rider at deep midwicket. He got to the ball, dived low to his right and plucked an absolute stunner! 148/610.4 picks out deep square! Sarfaraz looks to flick this uppishly, the bottom hand comes off the bat handle. The helicopter loses steam, and it ends up being a simple catch to the boundary rider. 112/411.4 taken at long-off! This is top--class, nerveless bowling by the youngster. Not afraid to give it air, deceives Brewis in the air as he looks to go down the ground, but doesn't get to the pitch and ends up slicing it to Livingstone who didn't have to move an inch. 113/516.5 the middle-stump has been knocked back and Sakib is pleased as punch! Dube backs away to drill this through the off side, but the late tail ensures he misses it altogether. 154/719.4 he has shovelled this straight down long-off's throat. Once again full and angling across, Overton can't generate the kind of power he'd like. Turns out to be the simplest of catches for Livingstone. Hinge has his arms wide. He's had a rough night with the ball, but has done wonderfully well so far to try and close this out. Now to finish it 182/8Extras18 (lb 1, nb 2, w 15)TOTAL184/8 (20 Overs, RR: 9.2)Fall of wickets: 1-15 (Sanju Samson, 1.1 ov), 2-66 (Ayush Mhatre, 4.4 ov), 3-66 (Ruturaj Gaikwad, 5.1 ov), 4-112 (Sarfaraz Khan, 10.4 ov), 5-113 (Dewald Brevis, 11.4 ov), 6-148 (Matthew Short, 15.4 ov), 7-154 (Shivam Dube, 16.5 ov), 8-182 (Jamie Overton, 19.4 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ 0s 4s 6s WD NB PP Hinge 4 0 60 1 15 7 7 3 2 2 K Nitish Kumar Reddy 4 0 31 2 7.75 9 1 1 3 0 Sakib Hussain 4 0 32 1 8 5 1 0 5 0 E Malinga 4 0 29 3 7.25 9 3 0 1 0 Shivang Kumar 3 0 18 1 6 7 2 0 0 0 Abhishek Sharma 1 0 13 0 13 0 2 0 0 0
Match Details
Toss
Chennai Super Kings , elected to field first
Player Of The Match
Season
Hours of play (local time)
19.30 start, First Session 19.30-21.00, Interval 21.00-21.15, Second Session 21.15-22.45
Match days
18 April 2026 - night match (20-over match)
TV Umpires
Reserve Umpire
Match Referee
Points
Sunrisers Hyderabad 2, Chennai Super Kings 0
Match Notes
- Powerplay 1: Overs 0.1 - 6.0 (Mandatory - 75 runs, 2 wickets)
- Sunrisers Hyderabad Impact Player Subs: R Smaran, Harsh Dubey, Liam Livingstone, Dilshan Madushanka, Harshal Patel
- Chennai Super Kings Impact Player Subs : Ayush Mhatre, Ramakrishna Ghosh, Kartik Sharma, Prashant Veer and Matt Henry
- Sunrisers Hyderabad: 50 runs in 4.4 overs (28 balls), Extras 2
- 1st Wicket: 50 runs in 28 balls (Abhishek Sharma 38, TM Head 11, Ex 2)
- Abhishek Sharma: 50 off 15 balls (5 x 4, 4 x 6)
- Strategic Timeout: Sunrisers Hyderabad - 75/2 in 6.0 overs (Abhishek Sharma 50)
- Over 7.6: Review by Chennai Super Kings (Bowling), Decision Challenged - Wicket, Umpire - Vinod Seshan, Batter - Abhishek Sharma (Upheld)
- Sunrisers Hyderabad: 100 runs in 8.5 overs (53 balls), Extras 9
- Strategic Timeout: Sunrisers Hyderabad - 147/5 in 13.5 overs (H Klaasen 42)
- Sunrisers Hyderabad: 150 runs in 14.3 overs (87 balls), Extras 9
- Over 14.6: Review by Chennai Super Kings (Bowling), Decision Challenged - Wide, Umpire - A Sahasrabudhe, Batter - S Arora (Upheld)
- H Klaasen: 50 off 32 balls (5 x 4, 2 x 6)
- Sunrisers Hyderabad Impact Player Sub: Liam Livingstone for Travis Head (Sunrisers Hyderabad innings, 17.2 ov)
- Over 19.5: Review by Sunrisers Hyderabad (Batting), Decision Challenged - Wide, Umpire - Vinod Seshan, Batter - PP Hinge (Struck down)
- Innings Break: Sunrisers Hyderabad - 194/9 in 20.0 overs (PP Hinge 0)
- Powerplay 1: Overs 0.1 - 6.0 (Mandatory - 76 runs, 3 wickets)
- Chennai Super Kings impact Player Sub: Gurjapneet Singh in for Ayush Mhatre (Chennai Super Kings innings, 1.1 ov)
- Chennai Super Kings: 50 runs in 3.0 overs (18 balls), Extras 8
- Over 3.2: Review by Chennai Super Kings (Batting), Decision Challenged - Wide, Umpire - A Sahasrabudhe, Batter - RD Gaikwad (Struck down)
- 2nd Wicket: 50 runs in 19 balls (RD Gaikwad 10, A Mhatre 30, Ex 10)
- Strategic Timeout: Chennai Super Kings - 76/3 in 6.0 overs (MW Short 5, SN Khan 4)
- Chennai Super Kings: 100 runs in 8.5 overs (53 balls), Extras 11
- Strategic Timeout: Chennai Super Kings - 135/5 in 14.0 overs (MW Short 32, S Dube 10)
- Chennai Super Kings: 150 runs in 16.1 overs (98 balls), Extras 13
- Over 16.2: Review by Sunrisers Hyderabad (Bowling), Decision Challenged - Wide, Umpire - Vinod Seshan, Batter - J Overton (Struck down)
- Over 19.2: Review by Sunrisers Hyderabad (Bowling), Decision Challenged - NoBall, Umpire - A Sahasrabudhe, Batter - A Kamboj (Struck down)
Match Coverage
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'Big, big loss' for CSK as Mhatre suffers hamstring tear
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Kamboj gets Purple Cap, Klaasen snatches back Orange Cap at IPL 2026
There are major changes on the Orange and Purple Cap tables after Saturday's double-header at IPL 2026
Trending in IPL 2026 - the around-the-wicket workaround for right-vs-right contests
Anshul Kamboj is the face of it, but numbers suggest more and more right-arm quicks are using the around-the-wicket angle against right-hand batters in IPL 2026



