New Delhi: Is there such a thing as black magic? Does black magic work? During the IPL 2026 match between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Chennai Super Kings, a strange moment – which fans described as black magic – was caught on camera. A Sunrisers Hyderabad supporter was seen holding a lemon performing a ritual that worked in the team’s favour.The incident occurred in the 17th over of Chennai Super Kings’ innings, with Shivam Dubey at the crease and CSK 154/7 chasing 194 runs.In a video that has gone viral, a fan in the stands is seen picking up a lemon, muttering the words, twirling it a few times, and then pointing at Dubey, who was preparing to face a delivery from Saqib Hussain. Moments after this gesture, the left-hander was bowled. The entire stadium erupted in celebration.How Dubey was fired:Saqib Hussain bowls Shivam Dubey.Saqib bowls a quick, full delivery on middle stump and Dubey misses it completely. The ball came off the pitch quickly and he took it quickly, trying to flick it. He was too late to take the shot, and the ball may have brushed his pads before hitting the stumps. Dubey’s feet weren’t moving much and he looked like he was expecting a slower ball. He was disappointed when he walked out after scoring 21 off 16 balls.Sunrisers Hyderabad beat CSK by 10 runs to move up to fourth place in the points table, snapping CSK’s two-match winning streak.“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 good to see him doing his job today,” SRH captain Ishan Kishan said after the match.“(Was that 20 short?) Yes, 100% I think, Abhishek got out too early, but still, after scoring more than 60 runs, always when we have scored 220, 230. We have always seen that among the first three batsmen, there is one batsman, from whom we always managed to score runs, but today we failed to score too many runs with that run. The batting line-up, I think, Yes, we were probably 20 runs short,” he said.“(Trusting 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. We have this group of bowlers at the moment and I think they are very interested in doing well. So it’s a time when you just give them the ball and let them do what they think is good, batting. Be very honest. 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 at a time, just one match at a time and see how it goes,” said Ishan.SRH will next face Delhi Capitals on April 21.
