What a game of cricket it has been! in the end, it is Chennai Super Kings who has walked away with the last laugh! so that's the wrap for the IPL 2018 with CSK clinching the title for the third time! This was Dhairya Ingle present the live updates. stay tuned for the video highlights of the season.Â
Rashid is here to complete his spell. With a single Watson gets his 100 of 51 balls. Rayudu hits a FOUR. So Chennai Super Kings need 13 runs off 18 balls.Â
Brathwaite bowling his 2 over. Suresh Raina gets caught behind and gets OUT on 32. Rayudu the new man in. Misfield and that goes for a FOUR. Bowls a WIDE. Watson ends the over with a SIX! CSK inching closer to victory!Â
Sandeep Sharma is here and bowls a full toss and shot balls. Shane Watson hits a FOUR and there's silence in the Orange Army camp. Watson hits three SIXES this over. Bowls a WIDE and Watson ends the over with a FOUR. 27 runs this over.
Rashid Khan comes to bowl. Shane Watson ends the over with a FOUR to fine leg. 8 runs off the over for CSK. The Yellow Army need 99 runs off 60 balls.Â
Kaul back. The required run rate goes above 10 for Chennai Super Kings. As Watson hits a SIX, Sunil Gavaskar says, "Ever since Kaul has been selected for India he has been leaking runs." Rashid Khan once again proves his agility by pacing a few steps ahead for a catch but does get it. 16 runs off the over.Â
Rashid Khan in. CSK stealing away singles this over. So 5 runs off the over. 123 runs required off 72 balls for Chennai Super Kings. Time to revise tactics in the timeout.Â
Siddharth Kaul introduced and Watson does not spare the full ball. He hits a SIX towards the square leg. Raina flicks towards leg for a FOUR and ends the over with a FOUR. Good over for CSK.Â
Sandeep Sharma comes to bowl his third over. Rashid Khan is brilliant on the field saving a boundary. Shane Watson hits it to deep mid-wicket for a SIX. Williamson not happy with the ball. Once again hits a FOUR on a full-delivery. That's the end of the power play. CSK need 144 runs off 84 balls.Â
Sandeep Sharma is back and bowls a slower one. Bowls a knuckleball and du Plessis falls into the trap. Caught and bowled by Sharma. Du Plessis OUT on 10.Â
Kumar is here starts off with 4 dot balls and an overthrow brings them 5 runs. Deepak Hooda throws it towards backward point and of course, there was no backup.Â
Shane Watson and Faf du Plessis are here from CSK. Bhuvi opens the bowling for SRH. There's a movement in the pitch. Sunrisers are live wires in the field. Maiden over from Bhuvi.Â
The summit clash of the IPL 2018 is here and it brings us the big clash between Chennai Super Kings vs Sunrisers Hyderabad. The contest between the two teams is surely going to be an exciting one as we will finally get the winner of IPL 11. Talking about the contest, the last time the 3 teams met, Chennai Super Kings won all the three games against the Orange Army.
The strengths and the weakness of both the teams are poles apart. While Sunrisers Hyderabad has an amazing bowling line-up which can rip apart any batting order. Whereas the batsmen of the Yellow Army can fire up and put up a huge total on the board which can give cold feet to any opponent. Let's check out the probable playing XI.Â
CSK Probable Playing XI: Faf du Plessis, Shane Watson, Suresh Raina, Ambati Rayudu, MS Dhoni (C & wk), Dwayne Bravo, Ravindra Jadeja, Harbhajan Singh, Deepak Chahar, Shardul Thakur, Lungi Ngidi
SRH Probable Playing XI: Shikhar Dhawan, Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Kane Williamson (c), Manish Pandey/Deepak Hooda, Yusuf Pathan, Shakib al Hasan, Carlos Brathwaite, Rashid Khan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Siddharth Kaul, Khaleel Ahmed/Sandeep Sharma.
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