Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) finally broke their Chepauk jinx by beating Chennai Super Kings (CSK) in their own backyard. SRH chose to bowl and immediately validated the decision as Mohammed Shami dismissed Shaik Rasheed on the first ball of the match.
Twice in two IPL 2025 games, it fell upon 17-year-old Ayush Mhatre (30 off 19) to inject momentum into the CSK innings. Ravindra Jadeja was steering CSK to safety before his untimely dismissal. Dewald Brevis (42 off 25) struggled at the start but eventually played a blinder. None of the remaining CSK batsmen managed to do much in the face of brilliant bowling in the conditions by Harshal Patel (4 for 28) and Pat Cummins (2 for 21). Jaydev Unadkat also joined in to bowl CSK out for just 154.
SRH’s chase ran into similar problems as Khaleel Ahmed removed Abhishek Sharma with the second ball. Travis Head was uncharacteristically sedate, while Ishan Kishan (44 off 34) brought stability to the innings. CSK’s bowlers, however, weren’t going down without a fight. Led by Noor Ahmad (2 for 42), CSK struck at regular intervals and kept the run rate down through the middle overs. But Kamindu Mendis (32* off 22) and Nitish Kumar Reddy held fort at the end and ensured CSK slipped to their fourth consecutive defeat at home.
Here are the most important numbers from the game:
1 – Ayush Mhatre and Shaik Rasheed are the first-ever opening pair in IPL history with both openers being below 21 years of age.
5 – Shaik Rasheed became the fifth CSK batter, and the first since 2015, to be dismissed on the first ball of an IPL match. Parthiv Patel (2008), Subramaniam Badrinath (2009), Srikkanth Anirudha (2011), and Dwayne Smith (2015) are the others.
3 – Mohammed Shami is only the third SRH bowler to take a wicket off the first ball of an IPL match. The other two are Jagadeesan Suchith in 2022 and Bhuvneshwar Kumar in 2023.
1 – Mohammed Shami has become the first bowler to take a wicket off the first ball of an IPL match four times in his career. No other bowler has done it thrice, while Dirk Nannes, Lasith Malinga, Trent Boult, Umesh Yadav, and Bhuvneshwar Kumar have achieved this twice.
3 – This match was the third instance of CSK being bowled out in an IPL game at Chepauk. In each of the previous two instances, MI were the bowling team. CSK were dismissed for 112 in 2012 and 109 in 2019 before this.
1 – This match marked the first time that SRH beat CSK at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai in an IPL match.
4 – Four is the joint-most number of matches that CSK have lost at home in a single IPL season. CSK also lost four games at Chepauk in both 2008 and 2012. Incidentally, they finished runners-up in both of those seasons.
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