IPL 2025 | SRH chasing 155 for victory against CSK in basement clash

Drafted in as a mid-season replacement, Dewald Brevis displayed the firepower that Chennai Super Kings were sorely lacking, with a breezy 42 off 25 balls against Sunrisers Hyderabad in their IPL clash in Chennai on Friday.

Brevis was especially harsh on Kamindu Mendis, smashing him for three sixes in an over. However, Mendis had the last laugh in the following over by Harshal Patel, taking a brilliant catch at long-off right after Brevis had struck his fourth six.

His departure left CSK at 114/5 and the home side then grinded its way to 154 all out with one ball to spare.

Shivam Dube followed Brevis to the dugout in the next over, holing out to Abhishek Sharma at long-on off Jaydev Unadkat for 12.

It wasn't MS Dhoni's day either, with the skipper tamely offering a catch to Abhishek at backward point off Harshal Patel for six.

Deepak Hooda was the last man out for 22, caught by Abhishek again -- his fourth catch of the innings -- off Unadkat.

Harshal was the most successful bowler with figures of 4/28.

Earlier, SRH had a dream start to the game, with Mohammed Shami striking off the very first delivery of the innings, having Shaik Rasheed caught by Abhishek at slip.

Sam Curran was promoted to No. 3 but failed to get going, holing out to Aniket Verma at deep midwicket off Harshal Patel for nine.

Ayush Mhatre was once again a bright spark for CSK, with a breezy 30 off 19 balls, before Pat Cummins had him caught by Ishan Kishan at mid-off, leaving the home team at 47/3.

Mendis then rattled Ravindra Jadeja's stumps to leave CSK in a spot of bother at 74/4 in the tenth over. Jadeja fell for 21 off 17 balls.

Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) won the toss and opted to bowl against Chennai Super Kings (CSK) in their IPL 2025 clash at the Chepauk Stadium in Chennai.

“We are coming off a couple of losses but its a new venue. We need a couple of partnerships to consolidate after early wickets.,” SRH skipper Pat Cummins said following the toss.

“Wanted to bowl first. There was a lot of dew last night during practice. When you’re not playing good cricket, you transfer pressure to the young players. We need to enjoy cricket. It is important to take one game at a time rather than look at six games. We have not been sure of the wicket since it was relaid in 2010,” said CSK captain MS Dhoni.

Dewald Brevis is set to make his season debut for CSK, who have also brought back Deepak Hooda and Sam Curran, while out-of-form Rachin Ravindra has been left out.

For SRH, Mohammed Shami returns to the playing XI, with Eshan Malinga dropped.

Both teams had a winning start to the season; however, they have struggled since. They now need to win all their remaining matches to keep the hopes of qualification alive. A loss here could spell the end of the road for either side.

The match will also see Dhoni achieve another milestone, becoming the fourth Indian cricketer to play 400 T20 matches.

Playing XI

Chennai Super Kings: Shaik Rasheed, Ayush Mhatre, Sam Curran, Ravindra Jadeja, Dewald Brevis, Shivam Dube, MS Dhoni(WK/ C), Deepak Hooda, Noor Ahmad, Khaleel Ahmed, Matheesha Pathirana

Sunrisers Hyderabad: Abhishek Sharma, Ishan Kishan, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Heinrich Klaasen(WK), Aniket Verma, Kamindu Mendis, Pat Cummins (C), Harshal Patel, Jaydev Unadkat, Zeeshan Ansari, Mohammed Shami

Impact players

CSK: Anshul Kamboj, Ravichandran Ashwin, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Ramakrishna Ghosh, Jamie Overton

SRH: Travis Head, Abhinav Manohar, Sachin Baby, Rahul Chahar, Wiaan Mulder