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A maiden half-century from Abhishek Sharma powered Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) to their first win of IPL 2022 with Chennai Super Kings’ (CSK) horror start to the season continuing with a fourth straight defeat under new captain Ravindra Jadeja.
Abhishek scored his career-best 75 off just 50 balls during SRH’s successful chase of 155, with Rahul Tripathi hitting the winning runs and remaining unbeaten on 39 (15). Mukesh Choudhary (1/30) and Dwayne Bravo (1/29) were the only wicket-takers for Chennai.
Earlier, all-rounder Moeen Ali top-scored with a 35-ball 48 to guide CSK to a competitive total of 154/7 after SRH captain Kane Willianson opted to field first at a tricky pitch.
Jadeja (23 of☂f 15) played a cameo towards the end to prop up CSK after they suffered a collapse in the middle overs.
CSK, the defending champions, will take on Royal Challengers Bangalore ও(RCB) in their next fixture🌜 of IPL 2022 on Tuesday, April 12.
Here’s how Twitter reacted:
Well played ! Sweet striker of the ball but packs a punch too. You saw the pull, the lofted cover drive, the big slog sweep and the flat batted shot over long on. All round game👌�ജ� Good to see SRH backing him and the youngster repayi🃏ng the faith.
— Wasim Jaffer (@WasimJaffer14)
Good to see Abhishek Sharma convert the promise he has been showing for a while into a substantial score. He has looked in ꦬcontrol today
— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha)
First fifty for Abhishek Sharma in IPL history, new role, openin🉐g the batting in IPL and he has started well.
— Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns)
Phew! Abhis🅠hek Sharma has scored a fifty𒊎 in the IPL. Hopefully, it will give him confidence.
— Bharath Ramaraj (@Fancricket12)
A new Sharma ji ka beta has entered the chat 💬
First 50 for Abhishek Sharma— Disney+ Hotstar (@DisneyPlusHS)
W🌟ell played Abhishek Sharma. Chennai were happy to wait for him to err, he has but after scoring 75. Played, now to build on this knock ahead.
— Nikhil 🏏 (@CricCrazyNIKS)
open their account in style. Convincing victory. Well 🥂playe⛄d & , delivering again with the ball.
— Ashish Reddy (@ashishreddy_9)
Breakthrough win for still below their best, but Abhishek Sharma, Washington Sundar, Rahul Tripathi and T Natarajan finding timely form. So m🅘uch so that th🌄e batting of Pooran and Markram wasn’t even needed. Meanwhile CSK have dug themselves into a deeper ole.
— Cricketwallah (@cricketwallah)
That was some exhibition of quality shots
— Irfan Pathan (@IrfanPathan)
madam..
— S!^∆ (@skrishn7)
Finally today….
Feel happy for kavya maran— who Am I ?? (@Pterloda420)
