Chennai, April 25 -- After medium pacer Harsh Patel's four wicket haul that dented home favourites and Chennai Super Kings (CSK) setting a good target, Sun Risers Hyderabad (SRH) aced the chase with rather consummate ease for their first win taming the Lions in its own den at the historic and iconic M A Chidambaram Staium here on Friday night.

After left hander Ishan Kishan's heroics, SRH stuttered in the chase, before Kamindu Mendis and Nitish Kumar Reddy took the team past the finishing line after CSK spinner Noor Ahmed picked up two wickets in succession to put the visitors in a spot of bother.

While the win took SRH to the 8th place in points table, CSK's hopes of a play off berth has almost nose dived, suffering its seventh defeat in...