IPL: Chennai Super Kings on bottom of eight-team standings

Sunriders Hyderabad beat Chennai Super Kings by seven runs in the Indian Premier League on Friday.

Hyderabad’s second win in four days left CSK on the bottom of the eight-team standings after a third straight defeat in four matches.

Priyam Garg, 19, and 20-year-old Abhishek Sharma combined for 77 runs from 69-4 and top-scored for Sunriders Hyderabad in setting 164-5 to defend.

Garg was adjudged Man of the Match for his knock of 51 off 26 deliveries.

Ravindra Jadeja boosted Chennai Super Kings with 50 off 35 balls, including five boundaries and two sixes.

Eighteen-year-old Abdul Samad, a batsman who part-time legspins, was entrusted to bowl the last over of the match, when Chennai needed 28 to win with Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Sam Curran in the middle.

The over started badly for Samad with five wides, and Dhoni hit a boundary, but three singles followed and the last ball was a six by Curran. But Samad conceded only 20 and could celebrate. Chennai was short on 157-5.

“It’s a good thing for the team that the youngsters executed,” Samad teammate Rashid Khan was quoted as saying by The Associated Press.

“Samad is a strong hitter of the ball and he delivered with the ball. He was so relaxed, so calm. That’s what I like about him. When the captain told him he’ll bowl the last over, he was smiling.”