Ishan Kishan’s unbeaten 70 and Heinrich Klaasen’s explosive 47 guided Sunrisers Hyderabad to a five-wicket win over Chennai Super Kings and sealed their playoff spot at Chepauk.
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Placed at the rock bottom of the IPL points tally with identical fortunes, both SRH and CSK have four points from eight games each, and need to win all their remaining matches of the tournament to have any chances of reaching the playoffs
CSK’s batting has so far revolved around skipper Gaikwad, whose second IPL century, the other day, came in a losing cause, and the in-form Shivam Dube, who once again impressed with yet another fifty.
SRH skipper Kane Williamson has scored three fifties in IPL 2018.
Yusuf Pathan, too, got out while going for a maximum.
From KXIP camp, Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Rashid Khan took one wicket each.
SRH is at the fouth spot in the points table with three wins from four games.
On paper, SRH possess one of the strongest batting lineups.
