NEW DELHI: Happiness, celebration and excitement abounded in the Sunrisers Hyderabad camp after their 10-run win over the five-time champions. Chennai Super Kings in their IPL 2026 match at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad on Saturday. It wasn’t just the win – the celebration was also about finishing in the top four of the points table.SRH are now fourth with three wins and three losses from six matches. They have six points.After the win, the SRH players looked ecstatic, and their owner Kavya Maran was also seen celebrating enthusiastically when the cameras hit the stands.A strong death bowling display, led by Ishan Malinga and Nitish Kumar Reddy’s quick spells, helped Sunrisers Hyderabad beat Chennai Super Kings by 10 runs.With this defeat, CSK is in seventh place with two wins and four losses.CSK elected to bowl first, and half-centuries from Abhishek Sharma (59 off 22 balls, with six fours and four sixes) and Henrik Klaasen (59 off 39 balls, with six fours and two sixes) took SRH to 194/9.Chasing 195, CSK stayed in contention thanks to contributions from Ayush Mahatre (30 off 13 balls, with five fours and a six), Matthew Short (34 off 30 balls, with three fours) and Sarfaraz Khan (25 off 16 balls, with three fours). However, spells from Ishan (3/29), Nitish (2/31), Saqib Hussain (1/32) and Shivang Kumar (1/18) kept the pressure on CSK in the second half, reducing them to 10 runs short.“Great. When you’ve got a bunch of young bowlers and you know they’re executing their plans well. They’re coming up with their plans and bowling to the plan. So it’s great to see, you know, there’s a lot less pressure on the captain to set the field because they’re ahead of the game anyway. So it was great to see them doing their job today. (Was that 20 short?) Yes, 100% I think, Abhishek got out too early, but still, after scoring 60-ridiculous runs, always when we have scored 220, 230 runs,” SRH captain Ishan Kishan said after the win.“We’ve always seen that out of the first three batsmen, one batsman always scores big runs. So we were missing that today, but especially with this team, with this batting line-up, I think, yeah, we were maybe 20 runs short. (Relying on his young bowlers) Yes, actually watching them in practice sessions, giving their best, trying to get better day by day. So you have to trust your bowlers,” he said.“It’s a bunch of bowlers we’ve got at the moment and I think they’re very keen to do well. So it’s a time when you just give them the ball and let them do what they want to do. (On the pitch) I thought it was a very good wicket to bat on, quite honestly. So I am saying that we were 30-40 runs short. But yes, there is a lot to learn from this game too. Looking at the shot selection, I think we could have done better. (on the points table) No, to be honest, we’re not looking at the points table right now. I know it’s a very long tournament. We need to keep our heads down, take it one game a day, one match at a time and see how it goes,” he said.SRH will next face Delhi Capitals on April 21 at the same venue.
