The 18th match of IPL 2024 was played between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Chennai Super Kings today on April 5 at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad. Let us tell you that Hyderabad won this match by 6 wickets on the basis of first bowling and then amazing batting.

Talking about the match, Chennai Super Kings, batting first after losing the toss, scored 165 runs at the loss of 5 wickets in 20 overs. So after this, Hyderabad easily achieved this target by losing 4 wickets in 18.1 overs. Let us list those three big points of this match, when the match slipped out of Chennai’s hands:

1. CSK did not get a good start

Let us tell you that when CSK came to bat first after losing the toss, its opener batsmen Rachin Ravindra and Ruturaj Gaikwad failed to give a strong start to the team. Both added only 25 runs for the first wicket. Rachin was out cheaply after scoring 12 runs and Gaikwad was out after scoring 26 runs.

2. Hyderabad’s fast bowling showed strength

In the match, Hyderabad captain Pat Cummins had decided to bowl first after winning the toss, which his fast bowlers did right. In the match, all the fast bowlers (except Natarajan) including Cummins gave runs at an economy of less than 8 and also took 4 big wickets.

3. SRH made a strong start in the powerplay.

In the match, CSK set a target of 166 runs for SRH to win. So when SRH batsmen came out to chase this target, they gave a strong start to the team in the powerplay, due to which the team was ahead in the match from the beginning.

The opening pair of Abhishek Sharma and Travis Head added 46 runs for the first wicket, while the team scored a total of 75 runs in the powerplay. After scoring these runs, Chennai was far behind Hyderabad in the match. Because at this time Hyderabad had almost equalized the difference of balls and runs.