Overview
- At Chepauk on Sunday, Gujarat Titans beat Chennai Super Kings by eight wickets in 16.4 overs after Sai Sudharsan struck 87 off 46 and Kagiso Rabada’s 3 for 25 had limited CSK to 158 for 7.
- Ruturaj Gaikwad finished 74 not out but reached fifty in 49 balls, the slowest CSK fifty in the referenced IPL era, drawing on-air criticism as Indian Express also flagged CSK’s early Impact Player move that left their balance scrambled within five overs.
- In Jaipur on Saturday, Sunrisers Hyderabad reeled in 229 with nine balls to spare behind a 132-run stand from Ishan Kishan and Abhishek Sharma after Rajasthan’s 15-year-old Vaibhav Sooryavanshi blasted 103, earning praise from SRH captain Pat Cummins.
- Islamabad United sealed a PSL 11 playoff berth on Friday with an eight-wicket win over Hyderabad Kingsmen as Richard Gleeson, Shadab Khan and Imad Wasim shared nine wickets to bowl the Kingsmen out for 80 before Mohsin Riaz’s 42 off 18 hurried the chase.
- Results shifted standings and strategies across venues, with a bouncy, tacky Chennai surface rewarding disciplined seam plans and measured chases, while Jaipur’s truer pitch enabled all-out strokeplay; Gujarat rose to fifth as CSK slipped to sixth, and Islamabad locked in postseason play.