Chennai Super Kings lost the toss and batted first. Openers Ruturaj Gaikwad and Rachin Ravindra got off to a great start but both couldn't play a big innings. Ruturaj Gaikwad was dismissed for 26 runs off twenty one balls and Rachin Ravindra was dismissed for 12 runs off nine balls. The current score of Chennai Super Kings is 84 runs for 2 wickets in 10 overs. If Chennai Super Kings can give Sunrise Hyderabad a target of 200 runs, then there will be a chance to win the match. Hyderabad's batting line is very strong. So Chennai Super Kings must give a big target of runs if they want to win against Sunrise Hyderabad. If Chennai Super Kings can give a target of 200 runs to Sunrise Hyderabad then the game will be competitive and Chennai will have a chance to win. Let's see how many runs the Chennai Super Kings batsmen can target to Sunrise Hyderabad.
Finally time we all have been warmly waiting for has arrived and both squads playing on today match have been displaying impressive performance in their previous matches in IPL competition. Especially, Chennai Super Kings squad finished their last two matches with fantastic performance and beating their against squads. On other hand, Sunrisers Hyderabad squad has made a superb record for making biggest and highest target in this competition. First batting was already completed in stadium and Chennai Super Kings squad has finished this inning and in this inning, Chennai Super Kings squad has successfully collected 165 scores as a defeating target and this target is not suitable for such a monster batter sqaud Sunrisers Hyderabad. Now Sunrisers Hyderabad squad batting inning is ongoing on crease and In just 3 overs, Sunrisers Hyderabad starter batter successfully achieved 46 scores and also 3 deliveries remain of third overs and I feel that Sunrisers Hyderabad squad will simply got a victory with no word hard and also no pressure.
I was very disappointed with Chennai's batting today. I thought Chennai will win today's match. But the Chennai team gave a target of only 166 runs. Chennai needed to provide at least 200+ targets against a strong batting order like Hyderabad.
I would say two experienced batsmen like Raturaj Gaikwad and Ajinkia Rahane batted like fools today. I expected better batting from these two batsmen. Gaikwad scored 26 and Rahane scored 35. But Gaikwad batted at 123 and Rahane 116 strike rate. Due to such slow batting of the batsmen, Chennai managed to collect 165 runs after losing 5 wickets in 20 overs.
Chennai are definitely going to lose today. Hyderabad collected 78 runs in 6 overs of power play. Hyderabad won't have any problem to win this match. Abhishek Sharma got out after collecting 37 runs off just 12 balls. The match is completely under Hyderabad's control. My guess is that Hyderabad team will reach the target of victory within 15 overs.