Bangladesh pacer Mustafizur Rahman picked up two wickets as his side, Chennai Super Kings, beat Sunriser Hyderabad by 78 runs in the Indian Premier League at the Chidambaram Stadium on Sunday (April 28). 

He bagged two wickets for 19 runs from 2.5 overs to guide Chennai bundle out Hyderabad for 134 – their lowest total of the ongoing season so far. 

Mustafizur has now taken a total of 14 wickets – the tournament's joint-most with Harshal Patel and Jasprit Bumrah. He will have one more game to play against Punjab Kings on Wednesday in Chennai before he returns to Bangladesh for national duty.

Besides, CSK’s victory was led by Tushar Deshpande clearing out the explosive top-order by picking up the wickets of Travis Head, Anmolpreet Singh and Abhishek Sharma within the powerplay.

Following this the defending champions continued to dominate through the middle overs as they restricted the runs which in turn led to wickets as Sunrisers Hyderabad were all-out for just 134 runs.

Tushar Deshpande finished with his best IPL figures of 4/27 in 3 overs followed by two wickets by Matheesha Pathirana and singular wickets for Ravindra Jadeja and Shardul Thakur as CSK maintained their undefeated record against SRH at Chepauk.

Ruturaj Gaikwad missed his second IPL ton by just two runs while Daryl Mitchell scored a fine half-century as five-time champions Chennai Super Kings scored 212 for 3 against Sunrisers Hyderabad. Ajinkya Rahane (9) early was a big setback but Gaikwad (98 off 54 balls) carried out the repair work in right earnest with New Zealander Mitchell, who scored 52 off 32 deliveries.

The pair also shared a 107-run stand for the second wicket. Shivam Dube then played a cameo of 39 not out (20 balls) and shared a 74-run stand with his skipper to guide CSK to a 200-plus total.

For SRH, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jaydev Unadkat and T Natarajan took a wicket each.

Source: online 

BDST: 1221 HRS, APR 29, 2024
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