IPL 2020 LIVE SCORE, Chennai Super Kings vs Sunrisers Hyderabad latest updates: Spin to finish, Abdul Samad has been given the responsibility of bowling the last over. 28 needed off six! Worst possible start from Samad, it’s a wide that goes racing off to the boundary! 5 runs and six balls left! MS Dhoni is struggling here though. He manages to sprint his lungs out though, to get two runs on the second ball. He’s limping to the finish line. 21 needed from 5 balls. Straight down the ground, and it’s hit like a bullet! 4 runs! 17 needed from 4! He doesn’t get a hold of the next shot though, it’s just a single. Huge pressure on Sam Curran. 16 needed off 3. This is a much narrower finish than you could have expected 10 overs ago. Single. Surely this is beyond their reach now. 15 needed from 2. Samad just needs to bowl a decent ball. Just a single. 14 needed from 1. Samad is just 18 years old, by the way. The last ball goes for six, but it just isn’t enough from Curran. Sunrisers Hyderabad win by 7 runs!

Second ball of the over, and Dhoni hits to deep midwicket. O lord, Abdul Samad what have you done? Some terrible fielding from the young cricketer, and it’s a boundary! Dhoni goes for another big shot, miscues and then runs two. He looks like he’s picked up an injury of his own. He runs two on the next ball as well, maybe the injury’s not too bad? Oh wait, he’s calling for a physio, and we have another little break. This could be troubling for CSK, he’s their best shot at winning this. What’s Dhoni going to do? It looks like he’s staying on. Can he regain his momentum? Of course he can, this is Dhoni we’re talking about! Massive six from the Chennai skipper, over the midwicket boundary! Single on the final ball, Dhoni keeps strike for the last over.

Preview: In a very unusual scenario, Chennai Super Kings (CSK), who are bottom of the Indian Premier League standings, will lock horns with seventh-placed Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) in the 14th match of the ongoing cash-rich league on Friday.

Both teams are languishing in the bottom half of the standings after below-par starts to their campaign, and clearly have their task cut out for the rest of the tournament.

After suffering losses in their first two matches, it was only in their previous clash (against Delhi Capitals) that SRH claimed the season’s first win, thanks to the bowlers as well as openers David Warner (45) and Jonny Bairstow (53).

In a very unusual scenario, Chennai Super Kings (CSK), who are bottom of the Indian Premier League standings, will lock horns with seventh-placed Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) in the 14th match of the ongoing cash-rich league on Friday. SportzPics

Rashid Khan spun a web, picking three wickets for just 14 runs while Bhuvneshwar Kumar finished with figures of 2/25.

What’s more, New Zealand’s Kane Williamson finally made a return to the playing XI, and impressed right away, scoring 41 off 26 deliveries. Williamson was given the nod ahead of Afghanistan’s Mohammad Nabi, and the SRH team management may not want to change a match-winning side.

CSK, meanwhile, will be looking to start afresh after a six-day break following their defeat to DC on 25 September. The Men in Yellow were completely outplayed in that match, as Prithvi Shaw (64) and DC’s bowling department, led by Kagiso Rabada, gave CSK a night to forget.

They have, however, received a huge boost ahead of the crunch South Indian derby — Ambati Rayudu and Dwayne Bravo are fit for the marquee clash. CSK CEO Kasi Viswanathan confirmed the same on Thursday.

Rayudu, who scored a match-winning 71 runs in the season-opener against Mumbai Indians, sustained a mild hamstring injury in that game, and eventually missed the two matches that followed. Meanwhile, Dwayne Bravo will be in line to make his first appearance this season. Bravo, who played for Trinbago Knight Riders (TKR) in the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) recently, picked up a niggle during the tournament, and did not bowl in the final against St Lucia Zouks. England’s Sam Curran has been stepping up in Bravo’s absence, and has impressed, picking up five wickets in three games.

It will certainly be a big game for both these sides, more so for CSK due to the fact that they have reached the IPL playoffs in every season they have taken part in.

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Chennai Super Kings full squad: MS Dhoni, Imran Tahir, Lungi Ngidi, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Shane Watson, Ambati Rayudu, Murali Vijay, Kedar Jadhav, Ravindra Jadeja, Deepak Chahar, Piyush Chawla, N Jagadeesan, Mitchell Santner, KM Asif, Shardul Thakur, R Sai Kishore, Faf du Plessis, Monu Kumar, Dwayne Bravo, Josh Hazlewood, Sam Curran, Karn Sharma.

Sunrisers Hyderabad full squad: David Warner (c), Abhishek Sharma, Basil Thampi, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Billy Stanlake, Jonny Bairstow, Kane Williamson, Manish Pandey, Mohammad Nabi, Rashid Khan, Sandeep Sharma, Shahbaz Nadeem, Shreevats Goswami, Siddarth Kaul, Khaleel Ahmed, T Natarajan, Vijay Shankar, Wriddhiman Saha, Virat Singh, Priyam Garg, Jason Holder, Sandeep Bavanaka, Fabian Allen, Abdul Samad, Sanjay Yadav