Yesterday CSK vs SRH IPL 2026 match result: What happened in Chennai Super Kings vs Sunrisers Hyderabad tie in Chepauk?

Ishan Kishan struck a fluent 70 after Pat Cummins displayed his mastery over length and pace with a three-wicket burst as Sunrisers Hyderabad ensured an IPL 2026 playoff berth with a smooth five-wicket victory over Chennai Super Kings in Chepauk on Monday.

Chasing 181 was never going to be easy on a slowish Chepauk track. But Kishan, who hammered seven fours and three sixes in his 47-ball knock, and an equally enterprising Heinrich Klaasen (47 off 26 balls) added 75 runs for the third wicket, powering Sunrisers Hyderabad to 181/5 in 19 overs.

Sunrisers Hyderabad now have 16 points with a game in hand -- good enough to carry them to the playoffs and the night's result meant that Gujarat Titans (16 points) also marched into the knockouts. Royal Challengers Bengaluru (18 points) have already sealed their place in the playoffs, leaving other contenders to fight it out for the lone remaining place.

CSK, who have 12 points from 13 matches, also are not yet completely out of the race to the knockouts. Cutting back to the match, the Sunrisers Hyderabad did not have a particularly bright beginning to the chase, losing Travis Head early. Abhishek Sharma too struggled for his timing, crawling to a 21-ball 26 as SRH could not find momentum in the powerplay.

Kishan completed his 50 in 37 balls but lost Klaasen to a brilliant stumping by Sanju Samson off Ahmad. However, the left-hander, who played some brilliant shots around the field, converted that fifty into something more substantial to drive his side's charge.

However, he was not there to take Sunrisers Hyderabad home as he fell to Anshul Kamboj but by then the 2016 champions needed just six runs to win.

Samson handed an equally harsh treatment to Praful Hinge in the next over, biffing him for a hat-trick of fours. But Cummins introduced himself in the third over, and pitched one up at good pace, and Samson's booming drive ended in the safe mitts of stumper Ishan Kishan.

Urvil Patel gave an early warning of hitting abilities with two successive sixes off Cummins, but Sakib Hussain's slow ball beat his horizontal bat to rattle the stumps. CSK captain Ruturaj Gaikwad and the impressive Kartik Sharma (32, 19 balls) constructed a 42-run stand for the third wicket to keep their side on the track.

Soon, Cummins' pacy chest-high bouncer accounted for Gaikwad, snapping his painful 15 off 21 balls. Gaikwad's lame pull could not clear Eshan Malinga in the deep. CSK found some wind through Dewald Brevis (44, 27 balls) and Shivam Dube (26), who added 59 runs for the fifth wicket.

Brevis, who struggled for his range in this IPL so far, was impeccable on the night, creaming Cummins for six and Nitish for a maximum and a four. It was his highest score in this IPL season. But Malinga rearranged his stumps with a 141 kmph thunderbolt to stall CSK again.