SRH are now in fourth place with three wins and three defeats in six matches. They have six points to their kitty. (Image credit: BCCI/IPL) NEW DELHI: Joy, celebration and excitement were sky high in the Sunrisers Hyderabad camp after their victory against five-time champions Chennai Super Kings in the IPL 2026 at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad on Saturday. It wasn’t just a win – there were also celebrations for breaking into the top four of the points table.SRH are now in fourth place with three wins and three defeats in six matches. They have six points to their kitty.After the win, the SRH players looked ecstatic and as the cameras panned towards the stands, their owner Kavya Maran was also seen celebrating energetically.
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Shreyas Iyer’s Masterclass and Arshdeep Singh’s Return! PBKS reveal a winning formula Strong death bowling, led by fiery spells from Eshan Malinga and Nitish Kumar Reddy, helped Sunrisers Hyderabad beat Chennai Super Kings by 10 runs.With this defeat, ČSK are in seventh place with two wins and four losses.CSK opted to bowl first and half-centuries from Abhishek Sharma (59 in 22 balls, with six fours and four sixes) and Heinrich Klaasen (59 in 39 balls, with six fours and two sixes) lifted SRH to 194/9.Chasing 195, CSK stayed in the contest thanks to contributions from Ayush Mhatre (30 in 13 balls, with five fours and a six), Matthew Short (34 in 30 balls, with three fours) and Sarfaraz Khan (25 in 16 balls, with three fours). However, spells from Eshan (3/29), Nitish (2/31), Sakib Hussain (1/32) and Shivang Kumar (1/18) kept the pressure on CSK in the second half, leaving them 10 runs short.“Beautiful. When you’ve got a bunch of young bowlers and you know they’re executing their plans well. They’re also coming up with their own plans and playing to the plan. So it’s very good to see, you know, there’s a lot less pressure on the captain to set the pitch because they’re ahead of the game anyway. So it was nice to see them do their job today, yes, they’re missing 100% today?” Abhishek got out quite early but still, after scoring 60 odd runs, every time we scored 220, 230,” SRH captain Ishan Kishan said after the win.“We’ve always seen one of the top three hitters always score a lot. So we missed that today, but especially with this team, this batting line-up, I feel like, yeah, we might have been 20 runs short. (I trust my young pitchers) Yeah, I actually look at them in practice, you’re doing your best when you’re trying to improve your day. So you have a better and better day.”“We’ve got a bunch of bowlers at the moment and I think they’re very interested in doing well. So that’s the time when you just give them the ball and let them do what they want. (on the field) I think it was a pretty good wicket to bat, to be very honest. That’s why I say we were, I think, 30-40 when I look at the batting, but I learned a lot. I think we could have been better (in the points table) No, to be very honest, we’re not looking at the points table now, I know it’s a very long tournament, we have to play every day, just one game at a time and see how it goes,” he said.
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SRH will next face Delhi Capitals on April 21 at the same venue.
