Pat Cummins rarely lets anyone down when the stakes are high and the Australia captain has risen to yet another lofty challenge to revive his Sunrisers Hyderabad outfit's chances of reaching the IPL playoffs.
In what was billed as a make-or-break duel between the struggling Sunrisers and equally ailing Chennai Super Kings at Chepauk on Friday, Cummins produced his tidiest figures of the season, 2-21, to help silence the home crowd and set his side on the way to a critical five-wicket victory.
Up against his old rival, MS Dhoni, Cummins won the skippers' battle as the 43-year-old CSK captain was left frustrated by having his landmark 400th IPL match rudely gatecrashed by the visitors' first league win in 17 years in Chennai.
