IPL 2020: Chennai Super Kings put up 167

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Shane Watson of the Chennai Super Kings plays a shot against Sunrisers Hyderabad in Dubai on Tuesday night. - BCCI/IPL
Shane Watson of the Chennai Super Kings plays a shot against Sunrisers Hyderabad in Dubai on Tuesday night. - BCCI/IPL

Dubai - Medium pacers Sandeep Sharma, Khaleel Ahmed and T Natarajan picked up two wickets apiece

By James Jose

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Published: Tue 13 Oct 2020, 7:48 PM

Last updated: Tue 13 Oct 2020, 11:15 PM

Shane Watson, Ambati Rayudu and Sam Curran helped the Chennai Super Kings post a decent score against the Sunrisers Hyderabad in Dubai on Tuesday night.
Watson and Rayudu made 42 and 41 respectively, while Curran sent up the order to open, fired 31 as the three-time champions finished up with 167-6 at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium.

Medium pacers Sandeep Sharma, Khaleel Ahmed and T Natarajan picked up two wickets apiece.
The Chennai Super Kings won the toss and skipper MS Dhoni opted to have first go on the wicket. It was the first time since the first qualifier against the Mumbai Indians last season that the three-time winners were batting first. That was a sequence of 10 matches.
Both sides made one change with leg spinner Piyush Chawla replacing young batsman N Jagadeesan for Chennai, while Sunrisers Hyderabad had Shahbaz Nadeem come in for Abhishek Sharma.
The Chennai Super Kings promoted Sam Curran to open along with Faf du Plessis with Shane Watson coming one-down.
This was only the second time that Curran was sent in to open the innings after he had done it with his previous team Kings XI Punjab, against the Delhi Capitals last season.
But the Englishman adapted well to the role, that allowed him to play with freedom. The southpaw took centre stage by hogging the strike and smashed his way to a 21-ball 31.
There were two beautifully struck sixes and three boundaries after du Plessis had fallen for nought. But Curran was deceived by a beauty of a delivery from Sandeep Sharma which crashed onto his stumps. That took the medium pacer's tally to 99 IPL wickets.
The Chennai Super Kings got 44 runs from the powerplay for the loss of two wickets and then reached 69 for two in the first 10 overs with Watson on 20 and Ambati Rayudu on 16.
They were 100 for 2 in the middle of the 14th over as Watson and Rayudu put on a crucial stand. The pair added 81 runs for the third wicket before Rayudu holed Khaleel Ahmed to David Warner at long-off.
Rayudu's 34-ball 41 contained three boundaries and two sixes. Watson too followed Rayudu back to the dugout after having anchored the innings, brilliantly caught by Manish Pandey.
MS Dhoni and Ravindra Jadeja hit a few lusty blows to add thrust as they finished up with that total. Jadeja remained unbeaten on a 10-ball 25 that had three fourss and a six, while Dhoni made 21 from 13 balls with two boundaries and a six.
Brief scores:
Chennai Super Kings: 167-6 in 20 overs (Shane Watson 42, Ambati Rayudu 41, Ravindra Jadeja 25 not out, MS Dhoni 21, Sandeep Sharma 2-19, T Natarajan 2-41, Khaleel Ahmed 2-45) vs Sunrisers Hyderabad.
Teams:
Chennai Super Kings: Shane Watson, Faf du Plessis, Ambati Rayudu, MS Dhoni (C) (wk), Ravindra Jadeja, Sam Curran, Dwayne Bravo, Deepak Chahar, Shardul Thakur, Karn Sharma, Piyush Chawla
Sunrisers Hyderabad: David Warner (C), Jonny Bairstow (wk), Manish Pandey, Kane Williamson, Priyam Garg, Vijay Shankar, Rashid Khan, Shahbaz Nadeem, Sandeep Sharma, Khaleel Ahmed, T Natarajan.
james@khaleejtimes.com


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