Sunrisers Hyderabad beat CSK to stay alive in IPL 2025

Sunrisers Hyderabad beat Chennai Super Kings by five wickets at Chepauk Stadium on Friday, extinguishing CSK’s slim IPL playoff hopes while keeping their own alive.

Chennai entered the match as slight underdogs across cricket betting sites, having lost six of their eight matches so far in 2025.

Once more they had a poor powerplay, losing Shaik Rasheed (0 from 1) for a golden royal duck, before Sam Curran (9 from 10) and Ayush Mhatre (30 from 19) followed in the fifth and sixth overs.

The home side rebuilt somewhat from 3/47, with Ravindra Jadeja (21 from 17) and Dewald Brevis (42 from 25) adding in the middle order.

However, the finish was too slow, and wickets came too frequently, with a batsman exiting in each of the final four overs and just 27 runs coming from the last 30 balls.

Set a target of just 155 to win, SRH were far from convincing in their chase but got the job done.

Abhishek Sharma (0 from 2) avoided getting out first ball like his CSK counterpart, only to fall the very next ball to Noor Ahmed.

Travis Head (19 from 16) followed later in the powerplay, with Heinrich Klaasen (7 from 8) getting out cheaply in the ninth over to leave SRH at 3/54.

Ishan Kishan (44 from 34) dug in alongside Aniket Verma (19 from 19) however, providing a platform for Kamindu Mendis (32* from 22) and Nitish Kumar Reddy (19* from 13) to see the game home in the 19th over.

“It was great. Few things came together tonight, boys played well,” SRH captain Pat Cummins said after the match.

“Thought it was pretty clinical. Couple of guys at the top wanted to take the game on but the boys shifted defensive and did really well.

“Our record against CSK isn’t that great so it’s good to fix that one up.

“We wish we finished that more comfortably, but overall, happy with that win.”

SRH remain low on the table after the victory, sitting eighth on six points.

The win does keep their slim chances of making the post-season alive, however, with IPL bookies pricing them at $67 to win the title.

Bottom-placed Chennai’s season is all but over though, with BetOnline paying an unlikely $501 for them to lift their sixth IPL trophy now.

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