IPL Stats: Top 5 Records by Chennai Super Kings in the history of IPL

#4 First side to beat a single team (SRH) 4 times in a season - IPL 2018

Ambati Rayadu - The new hero of CSK

In the 2018 IPL season, CSK became the first team to beat another team 4 times in a season when they beat Sunrisers Hyderabad. As always, CSK and SRH met twice in the league stages of IPL 2018.

In the first league match at Hyderabad, chasing CSK’s score of 182 for a win, SRH fell short by a mere 3 runs when Dwayne Bravo defended 6 runs off the last ball of the match in what went down as a thriller of a contest.

In the second league match at CSK’s adopted home ground at Pune, SRH batted first and set the hosts a target of 180. Courtesy of Ambati Rayadu’s maiden IPL century, CSK reached the target in the 19th over itself.

CSK and SRH once again met in the first qualifier at Mumbai. CSK won the first round of the battle when they restricted SRH to 139. But the chase was never easy for CSK as they first slumped to 39 for 4 and then onto 92 for 7.

Faf du Plessis was battling it out at one end. That indeed, is the beauty of this side as they invariably find different heroes on different days.

On that day, it was Faf who single-handedly won the match for CSK with his innings of 67 off 42 balls that 5 fours and 4 sixes. By virtue of that win, CSK directly entered the final while SRH had to face KKR in the second qualifier.

SRH made it to the finals by beating KKR in Qualifier 2. It was once again CSK v SRH - for the fourth time in the season.

When everyone thought the 'Law of Averages' would catch up with CSK this time around, Shane Watson chose to play arguably his best IPL innings on that day belting 117 off 57 balls with 11 fours and 8 sixes. Thereby, CSK lifted the IPL trophy for the third time.

By beating SRH 4 times in IPL 2018, CSK became the only team to achieve that rare feat in IPL history.