IPL 2024 Points Table, Orange Cap, Purple Cap: SRH’s massive win has made the playoff race tough for CSK. Here’s how cricket news

With the help of half-centuries from openers Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma, Sunrisers Hyderabad boosted their IPL play-off hopes by defeating Lucknow Super Giants by 10 wickets on Wednesday. Chasing a modest target of 166 runs to win, Head, who scored 89, and his fellow left-hander Abhishek, who scored 75, dismantled the opposition attack with 10.2 overs to spare at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium. SRH’s win eliminated former champions Mumbai Indians from the tournament. The win also impacted Chennai Super Kings as the team slipped one place in the points table and SRH replaced them at third place.

SRH have moved to third place with 14 points from 12 matches, while CSK, now placed fourth, have 12 points from 11 matches. The rest of the points table remained unchanged.

Here is the updated IPL 2024 points table –

Virat Kohli holds the Orange Cap with 542 runs in 11 matches, while Jasprit Bumrah holds the Purple Cap with 18 wickets in 12 matches.

Talking about the SRH vs LSG match on Wednesday, Australia head hit a flurry of fours and sixes to complete his half-century in 16 balls and reach 500 runs this season.

Head is now third in the batting charts behind Virat Kohli (542) and Ruturaj Gaikwad (541) with his fourth half-century in this edition – he also has a century.

Abhishek rose to the task as he brought up his half-century in 19 balls after taking Hyderabad to 107 runs in the first six overs of the powerplay, when only two fielders are allowed outside the inner circle.

Hyderabad, which won the IPL in 2016 under David Warner, recorded their seventh win in 12 matches to give a perfect gift to the birthday boy and captain Pat Cummins, who turned 31 on Wednesday.

Abhishek hit the winning six which took Hyderabad to third place in the table of 10 teams with 14 points. After the crushing defeat, Lucknow is in sixth place.

The top four teams will advance to the playoffs with the final on May 26 in Chennai.

Seam bowler Bhuvneshwar Kumar set up the win with an impressive bowling figures of 2-12 in his four overs and restricted Lucknow to 165-4 after electing to bat first.

Lucknow lost wickets regularly until Nicholas Pooran, who scored 48, and Ayush Badoni, who scored 55, put on an unbeaten partnership of 99 runs from 52 balls to boost the team’s score.

But this score proved too little for a team that posted record totals of 277 and 287 in this high-scoring edition of the T20 tournament.

(With AFP inputs)