IPL 2018: Match 20, Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Chennai Super Kings – Statistical Highlights

Chennai Super Kings clinched a last over thriller against the home team by a narrow 4-run margin to move on to top of the table. Ambati Rayudu’s 37-ball 79 along with Suresh Raina’s unbeaten 54-run knock helped CSK to finish with 182/3. Deepak Chahar bagged three wickets in his first three overs of the chase as SRH were three down for 22 runs. Kane Williamson guided his side with a 51-ball 84 with some support coming from Yusuf Pathan who hit four sixes in his 45. Rashid Khan tried to take SRH over the line with a 4-ball 17 but fell five runs short of the target.

All the stats and numbers that were recorded during this thrilling game in Hyderabad:

1 – For the first time in his IPL career, Bhuvneshwar Kumar didn’t get to bowl his four overs in a game where SRH bowled out 20 overs. Bhuvi bowled three overs in the first ten overs of the CSK innings.

3 – Only the 3rd time Sunrisers Hyderabad lost while chasing a target in Hyderabad. They lost to CSK by 77 runs in the 2013 season and lost to RPS by 12 runs in the 2017 edition.

74 – Sunrisers Hyderabad took the field without Shikhar Dhawan in the playing XI for the first time in 74 IPL games. Dhawan featured in 73 consecutive IPL games for SRH after missing the first seven games in the 2013 edition.

78.33 – Ambati Rayudu’s batting average against SRH in Hyderabad. He scored 235 runs with three fifties in four innings against SRH at this venue.

79 – Ambati Rayudu’s 79 is his 2nd highest individual score in the T20 format. He scored an unbeaten 81 against RCB while playing for MI during the 2012 season.

84 – Kane Williamson’s 84-run knock is the highest individual score for Sunrisers in the IPL in losing cause. Naman Ojha scored an unbeaten 79 against KXIP in the 2014 season.

112 – The partnership stand of 112 runs between Ambati Rayudu and Suresh Raina is the highest partnership for 3rd and lower wicket for any team against SRH. MS Dhoni and David Hussey added an unbeaten 108-run stand for the 4th wicket in the 2014 season.

151 – Number of sixes Yusuf Pathan hit in his IPL career. He became the 8th player to hit 150 sixes in the IPL. Yusuf needed one more run to complete 3000 runs in his IPL career.