IPL 2019
Match 41: SRH Vs CSK Post Analysis
A Sweet Revenge at Chepauk
This is the second time clash between the Sunrisers and Super Kings. Already Sunrisers won the first match between them at their home Hyderabad. After facing continue loss they back to winning road in the last couple of matches. But it happens reverse in case of Super Kings. They lost two consecutive matches against SRH and RCB. In that RCB match lost by just 1 runs. With Delhi win yesterday against RR they moved to top of the table. So CSK has to regain their top spot at the table. If they finished at first two position in table they can able to play qualifier 1 at Chennai which is the big advantage for CSK.
A small change in Sunrisers squad Kane Williamson out and he was replaced by Shakib Al Hasan. Once again MS Dhoni won the toss. This is the eighth time he is winning toss in this season alone. CSk decided to bowl first, by knowing Chepauk pitch they added Harbhajan Singh for Shradhul Thakur. Bhajji did what his captain expected from him. He removed dangerous Bairstow for duck in his third ball. Unexpectedly Manish Pandey came instead of Vijay Shankar. Both played wonderful innings by understanding the pitch. After a long gap Manish Pandey played superb innings. Warner reached his fifty in this match also. and he was stumped by MSD at Bhajji's spin. But Manish Pandey played brilliantly and scored 83 runs from 49 balls with 7 fours and 3 sixes. Finally SRH finished their innings with 175 runs. Bhajji grabed 2 wickets, but express Tahir went with zero today.
Chennai started to chase the valuable target. But their top order batsmen were not in form. Still Dhoni continued with the same team. As everyone scared CSK lost their first wicket at 2.3 overs when score was 3 runs. But this time its not watson, in form batsman Faf Du plesis run out by a direct hit from Hooda. Its was a closest run out in IPL history. Then Suresh Raina and Watto started the innings slowly. But Raina erupted at the last over of powerplay bowled by Sandeep Sharma. Raina scored 22 runs in that over itself with 4 fours and 1 six. On the other side Watson trying to settle him at the crease. Then the good partnership was broken by Rashid Khan. He went down the track and try to hit, but the ball spin a lot and he went for stumping. Raina gone for 38 rusn from 24 balls with 6 boundaries and 1 six. Then Watto takes the match in his hand. He played like as he played at last year IPL final against the same SRH. He scored 96 runs from 53 balls with 9 fours and 6 sixes. Rayudu played one more test innings which postponed CSK win for few overs. But Kedhar Jadhav chased it without wasting time. And its the 8th win for CSK. Now they were at top of table with 16 points. Tomorrow there is a big match waiting for fans between KXIP and RCB. May be RCB out of tournament but this is so much important for KXIP if they lost tomorrow there playoff dream will be questionable.
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