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With Dhoni Sitting Out, CSK’s Batsmen Struggle vs SRH, Post 132/5 

Chennai Super Kings post 132/5 (Faf du Plessis: 45, Shane Watson: 31, Rashid Khan: 2/17) vs Sunrisers Hyderabad.

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Chennai Super Kings skipper MS Dhoni elected to sit out of Wednesday’s game against Sunrisers Hyderabad after picking up a back niggle in the team’s previous outing. In his absence, CSK saw a middle order as they eventually ended up scoring just 132/5 in their 20 overs.

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Stand-in skipper Suresh Raina won the toss and elected to bat first with openers Faf du Plessis and Shane Watson posting 79 runs for the first wicket. This, after scoring just 14 runs in the first four overs. Both Bhubaneswar Kumar and Khaleel Ahmed bowled superb lines and lengths and restrained batsmen from scoring.

But in the last two overs of the powerplay, both Watson and du Plessis hit some lusty shots and took the score to 41-0 at the end of six overs. Both the batsmen looked comfortable at the crease and collected boundaries at will.

But left-arm spinner Shahbaz Nadeem broke the 79-run opening partenrship as he clean bowled Watson at 31 in the ninth over of the game. Vijay Shankar, included in the World Cup squad, celebrated his selection by sending du Plessis (45) to the hut in the next over.

Suresh Raina and Ambati Rayadu tried to steady the ship before star leg-spinner Rashid Khan trapped CSK stand-in skipper in front of the wickets. Two balls later, Kedar Jadhav (1) was also caught in front of the wickets, leaving CSK in a spot at 99-4 after 14 overs.

Sam Billings, included in the team in place of injured MS Dhoni, didn't trouble the scorers and became the victim of Ahmed.

Ravindra Jadeja (10*) and Rayadu (25*) struggled in the death overs on a slow Hyderabad pitch and they couldn't score many boundaries as the visitors would have liked. The SRH bowlers were disciplined towards the end of the innings and gave just 30 runs in the last five overs.

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Topics:  CSK   M S Dhoni   IPL 2019 

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