After suffering a six-wicket defeat in the opening game of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022 against Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR), the defending champions Chennai Super Kings will have to face another huge setback as their Indian all-rounder Deepak Chahar will take more time to join the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) franchise.
Big update
Deepak is still at the National Cricket Academy (NCA), in Bengaluru and he is currently recovering from his injury.
"Deepak may take some more time to join the team. So far , we know that he is at NCA and recovering from injury. Once he recovers, NCA will inform us and then he will join the team," the source told Sports Tak.
Chahar got injured during the home series against West Indies. He suffered a quadricep tear and was ruled out of rest of the limited-overs series. Earlier, CSK had roped in Irish pace bowler Josh Little as net bowler.
In IPL, the 29-year-old has till now played 63 matches and picked up 59 wickets at an economy rate of 7.8.
Chahar was roped in by Chennai Super Kings (CSK) franchise for a huge amount of Rs 14 crore at the mega IPL auction. Chahar became the second most expensive buy at the mega IPL auction after Ishan Kishan. Mumbai Indians (MI) franchise had spent a whopping amount of Rs 15.25 crore for Kishan.
CSK's defeat
In the opening match against KKR, the defending champions had to suffer a five-wicket defeat. Batting first, the Ravindra Jadeja-led side registered a total of 131/5 in 20 overs. Former CSK skipper MS Dhoni played a terrific innings of 50 (not out) off 38 balls to help his side in reaching a respectable total.
In reply, KKR needed 18.3 overs to reach the target. Their opening batter Ajinkya Rahane started the run chase on a positive note as he scored 44 runs off 34 balls. His innings was comprised of six boundaries and one six. Later, Nitish Rana (21 runs off 17 balls), skipper Shreyas Iyer (20 not out off 19 balls) and Sam Billings (25 runs off 22 balls) helped their side in securing a comfortable victory.
