Pat Cummins' Sunrisers Hyderabad won the toss and elected to bowl first against Ruturaj Gaikwad-led Chennai Super Kings in match 46 of the ongoing edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 at the MA Chidambaram Stadium, on April 28 (Sunday). The match is crucial for both teams, SRH have the opportunity to get to the number two spot and CSK have the chance to return to the top four of the points table.
Head-to-Head
Both teams have faced each other in 20 matches. CSK have won 14 of them and SRH have been victorious on 6 different occasions.
Captains at Toss
“We're going to bowl. Absolutely, you can see why it's pretty loud here. Boys are pretty pumped up. We've got Bhuvi who's a very nice new ball bowler, I just fill in wherever required. We're going with one extra batter, Markande misses out. We've looked to bowl first, maybe dew comes into it later in the evening,” said Cummins after winning the toss.
“(On being happy with batting first) Not really. Was hoping to win the toss, nothing we can control much. If we put up runs against them they'll definitely be under pressure. We have just lost those clutch moments in the game, just 2-3 overs while batting when we couldn't capitalise. Even with bowling, we haven't gotten those starts in the powerplay and sometimes when we've got that we haven't been able to finish off well. Overall, we're happy with where we are but we're just looking to win those clutch moments,” said Gaikwad.
CSK vs SRH Playing XIs
Chennai Super Kings: Ajinkya Rahane, Ruturaj Gaikwad(c), Daryl Mitchell, Moeen Ali, Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, MS Dhoni(w), Deepak Chahar, Tushar Deshpande, Mustafizur Rahman, Matheesha Pathirana
Impact Subs: Sameer Rizvi, Shardul Thakur, Shaik Rasheed, Rachin Ravindra, Mitchell Santner
Sunrisers Hyderabad: Abhishek Sharma, Travis Head, Aiden Markram, Heinrich Klaasen(w), Nitish Reddy, Abdul Samad, Shahbaz Ahmed, Pat Cummins(c), Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jaydev Unadkat, T Natarajan
Impact Subs: Umran Malik, Mayank Markande, Anmolpreet Singh, Glenn Phillips, Washington Sundar
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