Why is Matheesha Pathirana not playing in CSK vs PBKS IPL 2024 game?

The stand-in skipper Sam Curran gained the toss as Punjab Kings elected to bowl first in opposition to Chennai Super Kings in the forty ninth match of the IPL 2024 on Wednesday. Punjab Kings discipline the identical playing eleven however Chennai Super Kings made two main modifications to their beginning eleven with Matheesha Pathirana lacking out.

After shedding the toss, CSK captain Ruturaj Gaikwad revealed that Pathirana suffered a niggle and Tushar Deshpande is not feeling properly. The star bowling all-rounder Shardul Thakur and England’s veteran pacer Richard Gleeson got here into Chennai’s beginning eleven as replacements.

“We would have fielded first, but we weren’t exactly sure,” Ruturaj Gaikwad stated after shedding the toss. “Always tough defending here with a lot of dew, but the fact that we won by 78 runs shows a lot about the team, we’ll be missing out on Pathirana and Tushar Deshpande today. We’ll have to get there early and make a good score. Every game is important. Pathirana has a slight niggle, Deshpande isn’t well, so we’ve Shardul and Richard Gleeson makes his debut.”

Pathirana’s absent got here as a giant blow to Chennai’s bowling assault because the younger Sri Lankan pacer is having fun with a sensational season with 13 wickets in simply six innings to this point. Deshpande took 4 wickets for 27 in opposition to Sunrisers Hyderabad in the final recreation and has taken general ten wickets this season.

Chennai Super Kings Playing XI: Ajinkya Rahane, Ruturaj Gaikwad (c), Daryl Mitchell, Moeen Ali, Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, MS Dhoni (wk), Shardul Thakur, Deepak Chahar, Richard Gleeson, Mustafizur Rahman.

Chennai Super Kings Impact Subs: Sameer Rizvi, Mukesh Choudhary, Simarjeet Singh, Shaik Rasheed, Prashant Solanki.

Punjab Kings Playing XI: Jonny Bairstow, Sam Curran (c), Rilee Rossouw, Shashank Singh, Jitesh Sharma (wk), Ashutosh Sharma, Harpreet Brar, Harshal Patel, Kagiso Rabada, Rahul Chahar, Arshdeep Singh.

Punjab Kings Impact Subs: Prabhsimran Singh, Liam Livingstone, Rishi Dhawan, Vidhwath Kaverappa, Harpreet Singh Bhatia.