A view of the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association stadium in Dharamsala.
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Punjab Kings captain Sam Curran received the toss and determined to bowl first within the Indian Premier League 2024 against Chennai Super Kings in Dharamsala on May 5.
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After profitable the toss, PBKS captain Sam Curran stated “they fancy their chances of chasing here. We are playing the same team.”
CSK captain Ruturaj Gaikwad stated “We lost nine out ten tosses so far. But we won five games. It is a positive.” He additional added “Santner has come into the team in place of Mustafizur.”
Matheesha Pathirana returns to Sri Lanka
Chennai Super Kings’ Matheesha Pathirana’s outing within the ongoing IPL is all however over because the pacer will return to Sri Lanka to recuperate from a hamstring harm.
The right-arm slinger performed six matches on this IPL, choosing up 13 wickets at an economic system of seven.68.
“Chennai Super Kings wishes Pathirana a quick recovery,” the CSK acknowledged in a media launch.
Pathirana final performed for CSK throughout their 78-run win over Sunrisers Hyderabad, the place he bowled two overs and picked up the wickets of Aiden Markram and Heinrich Klaasen.
Pathirana missed the match against Punjab Kings at Chennai on May 1 with England pacer Richard Gleeson changing him.
The unavailability of Pathirana is a giant setback to CSK as their bowling shares have dwindled drastically in the previous couple of days.
Pace bowling all-rounder Deepak Chahar too is ready to miss the rest of the IPL with a niggle he sustained in the course of the match against Punjab at Chepauk.
Chahar walked off the sector after bowling simply two balls and Shardul Thakuar had accomplished the over for him.
“Deepak Chahar doesn’t look good. The initial feeling wasn’t great. So, I’m hoping for a more positive report when the physio and the doctor have a look,” CSK coach Stephen Fleming had stated after that match.
CSK will even be with out Sri Lankan spinner Maheesh Theekshana no less than for a few extra matches as he’s anticipated to fly again to Sri Lanka to full his USA visa course of forward of subsequent month’s T20 World Cup within the Americas.
Bangladesh pacer Mustafizur Rahman’s IPL stint too got here to an finish within the earlier match against PBKS after he has joined the nationwide staff for the house T20I sequence against Zimbabwe.
The groups
Chennai Super Kings: Ruturaj Gaikwad (c), Ajinkya Rahane, Daryl Mitchell, Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, Moeen Ali, MS Dhoni (wk), Mitchell Santner, Shardul Thakur, Tushar Deshpande, Richard Gleeson,
Punjab Kings: Jonny Bairstow, Rilee Rossouw, Shashank Singh, Sam Curran (c), Jitesh Sharma (wk), Ashutosh Sharma, Harpreet Brar, Kagiso Rabada, Rahul Chahar, Harshal Patel, Arshdeep Singh
(with inputs from PTI)
