CSK vs SRH Award Winners: Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) secured a five-wicket victory over Chennai Super Kings (CSK) in IPL 2025, marking their first-ever win at Chepauk on Friday (April 25). This result further complicates CSK’s path to the playoffs, leaving them with minimal room for error in the remaining fixtures.
Opting to bat first, CSK faced immediate setbacks, losing early wickets and failing to establish substantial partnerships. Dewald Brevis provided a glimmer of hope with a quickfire 42 off 25 balls, while Ayush Mhatre contributed 30 runs. However, consistent breakthroughs by SRH bowlers, particularly Harshal Patel who claimed four wickets, restricted CSK to a modest total of 154 in 19.5 overs.
Chasing 155, SRH encountered early hiccups, losing key wickets within the powerplay. Nevertheless, a pivotal 49-run partnership between Kamindu Mendis and Nitish Kumar Reddy stabilized the innings. Their calculated approach and timely boundaries ensured SRH reached the target with 8 balls to spare, finishing at 155/5 in 18.4 overs.
MS Dhoni (CSK Captain): We kept losing wickets, and in the first innings the wicket was slightly better and 155 is not a justifiable score, because it wasn’t turning a lot. Yes, after the 8-10th over, it became slightly two-paced when it comes to the fast bowlers, but nothing that was out of the ordinary, I feel we could have put few more runs on the board. Yes, second innings there was a bit of help, our spinners the quality was there and they bowled in the right areas and it was stopping a bit but we were short by 15-20 runs. I think he (Brevis) batted really well and we need something like that in the middle order, where we have slightly struggled when the spinners come in, that’s a time we need to either you do it by batsmanship, where you pick up your areas or try to play the big shot in your area. I feel that’s where we have been lacking and not been really able to dominate or get runs against spinners at good pace in the middle. In a tournament like this, if you have one or two areas where you can plug in the holes it is good, but if majority of your players are not doing well, it becomes very difficult. Because you have to do a few changes, but if majority are doing well then you give those guys that extra few games and if it doesn’t work out than you move onto the next one. But if 4 of them are not performing at the same time, you are bound to make that change, because you can’t just keep on going. Because we are not putting enough runs on the board, because it is essential right now, the game has changed. I am not saying it is always 180-200, but assess the conditions and then look to put the runs on the board.
Pat Cummins (SRH Captain): That was great. Few things came together tonight. Boys played well. Good to see a few smiles. Was pretty clinical. Couple of guys at the top looked like taking the game on. In these conditions, threw Klaasen at the top and Nitish to finish it off. Our record here isn’t great. Be more clinical going forward but pleased with the win.
Quotes Courtesy: Cricbuzz
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