Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) edged out Chennai Super Kings (CSK) by 5 wickets of their Indian Premier League (IPL) match on Friday, conserving their slim playoff hopes alive. Harshal Patel bagged a four-fer as SRH bowled CSK out for 154, earlier than Ishan Kishan, Kamindu Mendis and Nitish Kumar Reddy performed useful cameos to see their facet by way of with eight balls to spare. With his defeat, CSK virtually bowed out of the play-offs race whilst SRH stayed alive theoretically. CSK remained backside of the factors desk whereas SRH jumped a spot to rise to the eighth spot. This was SRH’s first win on the Chepauk in opposition to CSK.
Here’s how the IPL 2025 factors desk appears like after CSK vs SRH:

Sent into bat, CSK witnessed a horrendous begin as they misplaced Shaik Rasheed within the first ball off Mohammed Shami, caught by Abhishek Sharma at first slip. It was an ideal Test match supply, pitched on size outdoors off and formed away with the batter simply poking at it.
Young Ayush Mhatre (30 off 19) was, nevertheless, going nice weapons, choosing up boundaries at will along with his attacking batting in opposition to Shami, SRH skipper Cummins and Unadkat.
Sam Curran was the following CSK batter to depart as he top-edged a Harshal supply to Aniket Verma at deep midwicket.
There was extra agony in retailer for CSK as a well-set Mhatre was caught by Ishan Kishan off Cummins within the sixth over because the hosts managed solely 50 for 3 within the energy play.
In the seventh over, Harshal dropped a dolly off Zeeshan Ansari handy Ravindra Jadeja (21) a life and the veteran India batter utilised it to strike Ansari over long-on for an enormous six.
But Jadeja’s keep was minimize quick by Kamindu Mendis, who cleaned up his stumps quickly.
At the midway mark, CSK reached 76 for 4 in 10 overs.
But Shivam Dube (12 off 9) and Brevis (42 off 25) had different plans as they took the assault to the opposition with their energy hitting.
While Dube hit Shami for 2 beautiful boundaries by way of covers within the eleventh over, Brevis clobbered Mendis for 3 maximums within the subsequent over to maintain up the run fee.
Drafted into the facet, Brevis was in harmful temper as he clobbered Harshal for one more six earlier than being brilliantly caught by a diving Kamindu at lengthy off.
However, CSK misplaced wickets in a heap as Dube was holed out by Abhishek at long-on off Unadkat within the subsequent over.
In got here Dhoni in his four-hundredth T20 match, however he too failed to fireside because the veteran batter slashed a Harshal supply straight to Abhishek at level.
Towards the top, Hooda tried his greatest to elevate the innings and managed to take CSK previous 150.
(With PTI Inputs)
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