Sanju Samson makes IPL history, breaks MS Dhoni's record to become ...

Sanju Samson added his sanction to a database agelong dominated by MS Dhoni aft the Chennai Super Kings wicketkeeper-batter broke Dhoni’s grounds for astir runs scored by a designated CSK wicketkeeper successful a azygous IPL play during the lucifer against Sunrisers Hyderabad astatine Chepauk connected Monday.Dhoni had scored 461 runs successful 16 innings during the 2013 season. Samson needed lone 12 runs to spell past that people and reached the milestone successful conscionable six balls, scoring 15 runs successful Chennai Super Kings’ innings against Nitish Kumar Reddy’s opening over.Samson continued his attacking attack and struck 3 consecutive boundaries against Praful Hinge successful the 2nd over. He was batting connected 27 disconnected 11 balls erstwhile SRH skipper Pat Cummins brought himself into the attack.Cummins archetypal bowled a yorker that Samson managed to excavation retired earlier pursuing it up with a transportation extracurricular disconnected stump. Samson attempted a drive, edged the shot and was caught behind.Dhoni’s grounds arsenic a wicketkeeper-batter for CSK remains unmatched overall, with Samson becoming lone the 2nd subordinate to diagnostic prominently successful the list. Only 3 wicketkeepers person scored much than 100 runs for CSK successful a play — Dhoni, Parthiv Patel successful 2008, and Samson this season.

Samson present has 477 runs successful IPL 2026 from 13 innings astatine an mean of 47.7.Earlier, Chennai Super Kings won the flip and elected to bat archetypal against Sunrisers Hyderabad successful their IPL 2026 lucifer astatine the MA Chidambaram Stadium.The Hyderabad broadside had earlier beaten CSK by 10 runs this play astatine the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium.During the toss, CSK skipper Ruturaj Gaikwad confirmed that MS Dhoni was unavailable for the lucifer due to the fact that of fittingness issues."We are looking to bat first. Looking a spot dry, and we privation to enactment up a bully total. Even the past crippled against MI, it wasn't the champion of wickets to bat on. Nothing complicated, and we privation to support it simple. MS Dhoni is inactive here, but helium is not acceptable capable to play this game. We person 1 change," CSK skipper Ruturaj Gaikwad said during the toss.