Shivam Dube was disappointing as he returned after scoring 21 off 16 balls. NEW DELHI: Is there such thing as black magic? Does black magic work? During the IPL 2026 match between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Chennai Super Kings, a bizarre moment was caught on camera – which fans termed as black magic. A Sunrisers Hyderabad supporter holding a lemon was seen performing a ritual that seemingly worked in the team’s favour.The incident occurred in the 17th over of Chennai Super Kings’ innings, with Shivam Dub at the crease and CSK at 154/7 chasing 194. With Dub known for turning games around, SRH were desperate for his wicket.
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Bombay Sport Exchange: Munaf Patel on Gautam Gambhir, Virat vs Bumrah and Indian bowling. In a video that has gone viral, a fan in the stands is seen taking a lemon, swinging it several times while muttering words and then pointing at Dube, who was preparing to face a delivery from Sakib Hussain. Moments after the gesture, the left-hander was thrown. The entire stadium erupted in celebration.How Dube was released:Sakib Hussain to Shivam Dube – BowledSakib played a quick, full delivery on middle stump and Dube missed it completely. The ball flew out of bounds and rushed him as he tried to swing it. He was late on the shot and the ball may have brushed his pad before hitting the stumps. Dube didn’t move much and looked like he was expecting a slower ball. He was disappointed to return after scoring 21 off 16 balls.Sunrisers Hyderabad beat CSK by 10 runs to move to fourth place in the points table, also ending CSK’s two-match winning streak.“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 pitch because they’re ahead of the game anyway. So it was nice to see them do their job today after the game.” SRH Ishan,”“(Were they 20 short?) Yeah, I feel 100%, Abhishek got there quite early but still, after scoring 60 odd runs, every time we end up scoring 220, 230. We’ve always seen that they’re…. out of the first three batsmen, one batsman is always scored on that line. So today we missed, but with that bat I felt, yes, maybe we missed 20 runs,” he said.“(trusts his young pitchers) Yeah, I actually watch them in practice, try my best, try to get better and better every day. So you have to trust your pitchers. We have a bunch of pitchers right now and I think they’re very interested in doing well. So that’s the time you just give them the ball and let them do whatever they want. I think it’s been very good on the field. That’s why I say, that we were 30-40 runs short, but we can also learn a lot from this game, I think we could have done better (in the points table) No, to be very honest, we are not looking at the points table now, it is a very long game, we have to watch one day, he said.
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