Chennai and Hyderabad locked horns in the 46th match of the Indian T20 League 2022. Chennai was asked to bat first at the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Pune. This worked out well for the men in yellow as Ruturaj Gaikwad and Devon Conway gave them the perfect start.
Both reached half-centuries and set up a solid platform for the team to post a big score. They added 182 runs together, recording this season's highest partnership. T Natarajan got the first breakthrough as he dismissed Gaikwad for 99 runs. Gaikwad hit six fours and six sixes in his 57 ball innings . MS Dhoni (eight) walked in at number three but could not add much. Conway scored 85 runs in 55 balls, with eight fours and four sixes and helped Chennai to 202-2 in their 20 overs.
Chasing a mammoth total, Hyderabad got a positive start. They scored 58 runs in the powerplay. However, two back to back wickets in the final over of powerplay derailed their chase. In the sixth over, Mukesh Choudhary struck the in-form batters Abhishek Sharma (39) and Rahul Tripathi (zero). Kane Williamson and Aiden Markram added quick 30 runs before Markram was dismissed for 17. Kane Williamson played a few good shots as Nicholas Pooran joined him. However, with run rate becoming steep, Kane played a rash shot and lost his wicket to Pretorious at a team score of 126.Β Hyderabad needed a big finish from Pooran and Shashank SIngh. However, the big shots didn't come. Pooran hit a few sixes in the final over and reached his 50 but the match was over by then. Chennai eventually won the game by 13 runs.
Here are the top tweets of the game
#SRHvsCSK
Fantastic effort by Pooran, no big damage happened to Net Run Rate.β DIB (@DIBCreations) May 1, 2022
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Great innings from Nicholas Pooran π SRH lose to CSK again π #SRHvsCSK #IPL2022
β Numan (@numan_shaikh8) May 1, 2022
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Sundars injury costed us this match
....We comeback and rise stronger πͺ
Win or loose forever srh π§‘π₯#OrangeArmy #SRHvsCSKβ Saikiran Guptha (@saii347) May 1, 2022
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Hey Champs #csk Hey Champion @msdhoni π#SRHvsCSK
β Raftaar R. Sanadi (@RaftaarSanadi) May 1, 2022
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Well played boys @SunRisers... Lack of 5th bowler did let us down... Will rise again #OrangeArmy #SRHvsCSK #SRHvCSK
β Shivashankar Galla (@urs_sajjan) May 1, 2022
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Good fight from #SRH sooo close. #SRHvsCSK
β Β°β’ Chenae β’Β° (@chenae876) May 1, 2022
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A big minus in this #srh team is kane Williamson , as a batsman he completely flop this tournament so far , his strike rate is much worse , canβt score quickly in powerplay
He needs to improve quickly #SRHvsCSK #ipl2022β movie lover (@volatilemarket) May 1, 2022
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A good win for #CSK but they would have wanted a bigger margin one. #CSKvsSRH #IPL #SRHvCSK #SRHvsCSK
β Varun Malik (@IVarunmalik) May 1, 2022
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Hitting sixes after loosing @nicholas_47 is just 4 years far than ending up at @ChennaiIPL .#SRHvsCSK #IPL2022 #NICHOLAS
β Tweeter (@Kristian0O7) May 1, 2022
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CSK WON BY 13 RUNS
STILL SRH HAVE ALL THE DOORS OPEN FOR SRH TO QUALIFY @SunRisers NO NEED TO WORRY MUCH JUST PLAY YOUR CRICKET I BELIEVE IN YOU #SRHvCSK #SRHvsCSK #IPL #OrangeArmyβ Nipun Bansal (@NipunBa90342886) May 1, 2022
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Mukesh Choudhary is our new lord of CSK...
that's it...
That's the Tweet...#SRHvsCSK #WhistlePoduβ jenish viradiya (@viradiya_jenish) May 1, 2022
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Captain change result change for Csk. Opening partnership π
β Irfan Pathan (@IrfanPathan) May 1, 2022