Losing Back to Back away from home matches they proved that they even lose the match and win at home, they are the king of Indian premier league. In the previous two matches, they have lost against Sunrisers Hyderabad and Royal Challengers Bangalore. The match between Chennai super kings and Sunrisers Hyderabad had been playing at Chennai home ground and it was helpful for spinners in their last 4 matches played here but yesterday the result was different.
Chennai super kings skipper after winning the toss decided to field first and gave Sunrisers Hyderabad to bat. Chennai super kings have one chance as they bring Harbhajan Singh in place of Shardul Thakur and he does the work for the team. Sunrisers Hyderabad skipper was not able to play the match as his grandmother died and so he went to his country and in place of Bhuvneshwar Kumar had a responsibility.
Manish Pandey and Shakib Hasan had been included in playing11 in place of Kane Williamson and Shadab Nadeem. Jonny Bairstow was out at a duck in the bowling of Harbhajan Singh but middle-order batsman Manish Pandey played an 85 runs knock and David Warner half-century helps to have a huge total on the board. From Chennai super Kings side Harbhajan Singh was the highest wicket-taker and he takes a wicket of inform batsman David Warner and Jonny Bairstow.
Watson has been given one more chance to prove his skill and he does and he played a brilliant knock of 96 runs in 53 balls along with Suresh Raina 38 runs in 24 balls which had a partnership of 77 runs for the second wicket. Now it looks that pitch is helping to the batsman to play a good inning and so Chennai super kings win the match with 1 ball remaining. With this win Chennai super kings final their playoff place.
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