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Ishan Kishan struck a fluent 70 aft Pat Cummins displayed his mastery implicit magnitude and gait with a three-wicket burst arsenic Sunrisers Hyderabad ensured an IPL 2026 playoff berth with a creaseless five-wicket triumph implicit Chennai Super Kings successful Chennai connected Monday (May 18, 2026).
Chasing 181 was ne'er going to beryllium casual connected a slowish Chepauk track. But Kishan, who hammered 7 fours and 3 sixes successful his 47-ball knock, and an arsenic enterprising Heinrich Klaasen (47 disconnected 26 balls) added 75 runs for the 3rd wicket, powering Hyderabad to 181 for 5 successful 19 overs.
SRH present person 16 points with a crippled successful manus — bully capable to transportation them to the playoffs, and the night’s effect meant that Gujarat Titans (16 points) besides marched into the knockouts.
Royal Challengers Bengaluru (18 points) person already sealed their spot successful the playoffs, leaving different contenders to combat it retired for the lone remaining place.
The Super Kings, who person 12 points from 13 matches, besides are not yet wholly retired of the contention to the knockouts.
Cutting backmost to the match, the Sunrisers did not person a peculiarly agleam opening to the chase, losing Travis Head early.
Abhishek Sharma excessively struggled for his timing, crawling to a 21-ball 26 arsenic SRH could not find momentum successful the Power Play, which they ended connected 45 for one.
But erstwhile Klaasen, who was dropped connected 18 by Spencer Johnson disconnected Noor Ahmad, joined Kishan, the complexion of the crippled changed.
The duo neutralised CSK spinners — Akeal Hossain and Ahmad — with exemplary shot-making and footwork during their confederation arsenic SRH closed successful connected the target.
Kishan completed his 50 successful 37 balls but mislaid Klaasen to a superb stumping by Sanju Samson disconnected Ahmad. However, the left-hander, who played immoderate superb shots astir the field, converted that 50 into thing much important to thrust his side’s charge.
However, helium was not determination to instrumentality SRH location arsenic helium fell to Anshul Kamboj but by past the 2016 champions needed conscionable six runs to win.
Earlier, pacer Cummins displayed his implicit power implicit his craft, but a corporate batting effort helped CSK scope a competitory 180/7.
The Hyderabad skipper (3/28) struck astatine important junctures of the lucifer to guarantee that CSK would not embark connected a lopsided tally aft the location broadside elected to bat.
Samson gave a thunderous commencement to the Super Kings, smashing Nitish Kumar Reddy for 6, 4, 4, to eke retired 17 runs successful the archetypal over.
Samson handed an arsenic harsh attraction to Praful Hinge successful the adjacent over, biffing him for a hat-trick of fours.
But Cummins introduced himself successful the 3rd over, and pitched 1 up astatine bully pace, and Samson’s booming thrust ended successful the harmless mitts of stumper Ishan Kishan.
Urvil Patel gave an aboriginal informing of hitting abilities with 2 successive sixes disconnected Cummins, but Sakib Hussain’s dilatory shot bushed his horizontal bat to rattle the stumps.
Chennai skipper Ruturaj Gaikwad and the awesome Kartik Sharma (32, 19 balls) constructed a 42-run basal for the 3rd wicket to support their broadside connected the track.
Kartik underlined his fast-growing maturity with immoderate stunning shots similar an wrong retired 4 disconnected Hinge and a pulled six of left-arm wrist spinner Shivang Kumar.
But Cummins returned to relationship for the young right-hander arsenic a gait disconnected transportation extracurricular off-stump robbed momentum from his precocious cut, which ended with Nitish astatine deep.
Soon, Cummins’ pacy chest-high bouncer accounted for Gaikwad, snapping his achy 15 disconnected 21 balls. Gaikwad’s lame propulsion could not wide Eshan Malinga successful the deep.
Stranded without immoderate force, CSK recovered immoderate upwind done Dewald Brevis (44, 27 balls) and Shivam Dube (26), who added 59 runs for the 5th wicket.
Brevis, who struggled for his scope successful this IPL truthful far, was impeccable connected the night, creaming Cummins for six and Nitish for a maximum and a four. It was his highest people successful this IPL season.
But Malinga rearranged his stumps with a 141 kmph thunderbolt to stall CSK again.
