IPL 2025 live report - Harshal sets up SRH's first win against CSK in Chennai

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A three-pronged performance from Kamindu Mendis and Harshal Patel’s use of the middle of the pitch led Sunrisers Hyderabad to win their first-ever match against Chennai Super Kings in Chennai, a win SRH will hope revives a faltering campaign. Dewald Brevis, on his CSK debut, and Ayush Mhatre, the youngest CSK player ever in only his second life, threatened to inject some freshness into a stale CSK campaign, but the 154 they took CSK to was not enough in the heavy dew even though they did give SRH a scare on the dry pitch.

Kamindu Mendis adds to his bowling and fielding a match-finishing 32 off 22 to break SRH's duck against CSK in Chennai. Kamindu and Nitish Kumar Reddy add 49 off 31 to see SRH home

Nitish Kumar Reddy has repeatedly given up the stumps against Pathirana but has managed to hit boundaries on both the off side and the leg side. Now it should be straightforward for SRH

Noor Ahmad got away with it but bowled two no-balls in the 16th over that could have ended this contest. He finishes with figures of 4-0-42-2

A little profligacy from CSK's big-ticket bowlers on the wides, but Mathhesha Pathirana and Noor Ahmad have bowled two superb overs. Pathirana goes for just four despite two wides in the 13th, and Noor troubles Kamindu Mendis before bowling with a slip to Aniket Verma, who is already in. One fewer outfielder perhaps tempts Verma into playing the slog, the wrong'un takes the thick edge, and he is gone for 19 off 19 despite hitting two sixes.

The ball is now getting so wet you can see a sprinkle as Noor Ahmad releases it. Or is it his sweat. Only on ultra slow-mo, mind you. And Ishan Kishan is warming up after quite a bit of a run-a-ball stuff. He pulls Noor over deep midwicket, then hits another flat one as he looks for a second. Curran runs to his right, seems to have run in too much, but takes it overhead and falls just inside the boundary triangles. His head almost hits the ground so hard he has fallen. Kishan gone for 44 off 34.

As pundits kept asking for, SRH promoted Heinrich Klaasen ahead of the struggling Nitsh Kumar Reddy, looking to give their in-form batter more deliveries to face. However, he is gone early as CSK have tied SRH down. He tries to take Ravindra Jadeja down for a six at the start of the second over, but there is enough hold in the pitch for this to become a skier, which Deepak Hooda takes at long-on.

Aniket Verma promoted ahead of Nitish Kumar Reddy.

Anshul Kamboj has bowled superbly to Travis Head with a plan that is not easy to execute. He has got a 6-3 off-side field for Head with two mid-offs. One of them is so straight he can shake his hand as Kamboj runs in, the other is wider. And he has been bowling just short of a length and at middle and leg, resulting in a few wafts across the line. In the fourth over, he hit Head's pad twice, and in the sixth he has hit the top of off.

Kamboj to Head: 9 balls, 10 runs and the wicket. This is CSK's best powerplay with the ball this IPL.

Deepak Hooda takes CSK past 150 but he can't get enough big hits in the end to take them to an imposing total. Plus given the dew out there already, SRH will start as firm favourites.

Pat Cummins is bashing that hard length like he would with the semi-old ball in a Test match. After beating the bat twice in the 16th over, he eventually draws the edge from Anshul Kamboj. He turns into a bowling machine when there are dividends for Test-style bowling.

Harshal Patel has a clear plan for MS Dhoni: into the pitch and wide. To the second ball of the 17th over, Dhoni attempts a pull from well wide and gets a bottom edge through to the keeper. To the next ball he decides to not fight the angle and tries to go over point, but manages to only caress it to point.

Anshul Kamboj is the Impact Player, which means they have decided against playing R Ashwin.

That tells you the number of dot balls, but it doesn't tell you about the hard lengths and slight seam movement Pat Cummins generated in the 16th over. Twice he beat the outside edge with identical deliveries: short of a length, holding its line outside off. This might as well have been the WTC final.

SRH have gone back ti a lot of pace since Shivam Dube's entry. Dube hit Shami for two fours, and now tries to hit Jaydev Unadkat for a six. The length ball stands up a little, and he has skied it to long-on. Finally in comes MS Dhoni. In his 400th T20.

Dewald Brevis is demonstrating why he is called Baby AB. Four sixes already - the fourth over extra cover off a slower bouncer - and he looks good for a fifth with an aerial off-drive off Harshal Patel. It has caught long-off a few yards in off the rope so it looks like a six for all money until Kamindu dives to his left, gets both hands to it, and catches it behind his body. Brevis is gone for 42 off 25.

Deepak Hooda is in ahead of MS Dhoni.

Dewald Brevis decides Kamindu Mendis has to go, and he does it with three sixes in the 12th over. To be fair to Kamindu, there is heavy dew out there and the ball is skidding on nicely now. He still draws one false shot in the over, which falls safely. Brevis is now 36 off 22.

It is no more new but how can it ever get old? Kamindu Mendis bowling right-arm offspin to left-hand batters and left-arm orthodox to right-hand batters. And so accurately. He has completely stifled Ravindra Jadeja with his accurate bowling, and eventually just bowled him for 21 off 17. His length has been superb for both the batters, allowing neither a drive nor the horizontal-bat shots. No boundary off him in his first 1.3 overs either.

For a change, Ravindra Jadeja tries to hit spin, and immediately demonstrate why he doesn't do it often. He tries to go downtown off Zeeshan Ansari, ends up skying it to long-off where Harshal Patel drops him.

Immediately, Jadeja goes back to looking for single, allowing three dots to the ambidextrous Kamindu Mendis' offbreaks.

And already we have the towels out. Signs of possibly heavy dew later on.

Enough of Ayush Mhatre driving SRH through the covers. They have now decided to go into the pitch and place two fielders deep on the leg side. Even inside the powerplay. Mhatre mis-hits a Harshal Patel slower short ball but it falls short of deep midwicket. No such luck for Sam Curran one ball later. He is caught at deep midwicket. CSK 39 for 2 in 4.3 overs.

In comes Ravindra Jadeja.

The big backswing, Dwayne Bravo-like acrs the bat makes, and the propensity tob stay legside of thhe ball are the early impressions of Mhatre's batting. He has got off to another good start, tsaking both Shami and Cummins for fours. After three overs, he is 19 off 11. CSK 27 for 1.

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Too bad this one lasted only one ball.

Mohammed Shami's comeback starts with lovely seam movement from a good length. The ball takes Shaik Rasheed's edge, it looks like a straightforward catch for the keeper, but it swerves away late, getting big on even the first slip, Abhishek Sharma. Abhishek keeps his eye on it, turns towards point with the movement and takes a beautiful catch.

Sam Curran is the new batter, and Shami experiences an immediate equaliser. He breaks the wicket at the non-striker's end during his delivery. It is a no-ball, but Shami bowls a yorker on the free hit and gets away with it.

Pat Cummins won just his third toss of the season and elected to field as Sunrisers Hyderabad chased their first-ever win over Chennai Super Kings in Chennai. Both teams expected dew later in the night; even CSK would have fielded first. Both teams were at the bottom of the table with just two wins out of eight matches.

The big team news was a CSK debut for Dewald Brevis, fondly known as Baby AB for his similarities in style with AB de Villiers. Brevis made his IPL debut for Mumbai Indians, but was released and went unsold at the auction. He was drafted in mid-season as replacement of Gurjapneet Singh.

Brevis' inclusion, though, meant Rachin Ravindra missed out, leaving Ayush Mhatre, CSK’s youngest player ever, to open the innings with Shaik Rasheed. Deepak Hooda replaced Vijay Shankar in the middle order, and Sam Curran came back too. Jamie Overton made way for Curran. R Ashwin was named in the list of substitutes.

SRH rung in the changes too. The Sri Lankan swap brought in ambidextrous spinner Kamindu Mendis for Eshan Malinga. Mohammed Shami made his comeback too. Travis Head was almost certain to be the Impact Player during the chase.

Chennai Super Kings 1 Ayush Mhatre, 2 Shaik Rasheed, 3 Sam Curran, 4 Dewald Brevis, 5 Ravindra Jadeja, 6 Shivam Dube, 7 Deepak Hooda, 8 MS Dhoni (capt. & wk), 9 Noor Ahmad, 10 Khaleel Ahmad, 11 Matheesha Pathirana

Possible Impact Subs Anshul Kamboj, R Ashwin, Jamie Overton, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Ramakrishna Ghosh

Sunrisers Hyderabad 1 Abhishek Sharma, 2 Ishan Kishan, 3 Nitish Kumar Reddy, 4 Heinrich Klaasen (wk), 5 Aniket Verma, 6 Kamindu Mendis, 7 Pat Cummins (capt.), 8 Harshal Patel, 9 Jaydev Unadkat, 10 Zeeshan Ansari, 11 Mohammed Shami.

Possible Impact Subs Travis Head, Abhinav Mahohar, Sachin Baby, Rahul Chahar and Wiaan Mulder

Firstly the dimensions. We have one bigger boundary: 70m to 63m. Michael Clarke sees dry patches on the pitch, expects two-paced response from the surface, and is not predicting a big total.