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The four-time champions Chennai Super Kings (CSK) take on Sunrisers Hyderabad as MS Dhoni won the toss and elected to bowl first in their Indian Premier League (IPL) clash at the MA Chidambaram stadium in Chennai on Friday (April 21).
“We'll bowl first. This pitch is 50-50 because it is slightly cloudy. There might be dew so always better to chase. All packed together on the points table, we need to do well and not look at the table at this moment. Combination wise, we have been fortunate because we haven't had all players available. The headaches start later when everyone becomes available,” CSK skipper Dhoni said after winning the toss.
“We'd have also bowled first. We had a good game against KKR batting first, so hopefully we can take a leaf out of that. I think we need to get the whole game good together, one skill is good and the other not as much, so we are working on it. If one of them is having a good night, they have to make it big. Hectic schedules but we are not complaining, the IPL allows us the chance to travel around and meet different fan bases. We've got the same 16 from the MI game, but since we are batting first here, there will be a change to the XI,” SRH captain Aiden Markram said after the toss.
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Head-to-Head
In head-to-head encounters in Indian Premier League, CSK and SRH have played 18 games against each other. CSK has won 13 matches while SRH has won 5 games. In the last 5 games between both teams, CSK has won 3 matches while SRH won on two occasions.
Pitch report
“There was a bit of drizzle earlier, but we should have a full match. One square boundary is short at 62m, the other is at 70m. The straight boundary is at 75m and some large pockets as well. This is pitch number 6 and there were a lot of runs in the last game that was played on this (match 6 of the IPL with scores of 217 and 205). There are a few cracks, but it is rock hard. As a pacer, you need to have variations to succeed on this pitch, same goes for the spinners. But in one sentence, the batters should have a field day today,” Pommie Mbangwa analysed the pitch.
Chennai Super Kings (Playing XI): Ruturaj Gaikwad, Devon Conway, Ajinkya Rahane, Shivam Dube, Ambati Rayudu, Moeen Ali, Ravindra Jadeja, MS Dhoni(w/c), Maheesh Theekshana, Tushar Deshpande, Matheesha Pathirana.
CSK Substitute Players: Ambati Rayudu, Shaikh Rasheed, S Senapati, Dwaine Pretorius, R Hangargekar
Sunrisers Hyderabad (Playing XI): Harry Brook, Mayank Agarwal, Rahul Tripathi, Aiden Markram(c), Heinrich Klaasen(w), Abhishek Sharma, Washington Sundar, Marco Jansen, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mayank Markande, Umran Malik.
SRH Substitute Players: T Natarajan, Vivrant Sharma, Glenn Phillips, Mayank Dagar
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