Chennai Super Kings welcomed their new crew members with a ceremony headlined by skipper MS Dhoni. The latter gave away the jerseys to those gamers — Cheteshwar Pujara, Moeen Ali, Robin Uthappa and Krishnappa Gowtham — and continued this custom. Pujara, who’s returning to the league after 2014, thanked Dhoni after being welcomed into the crew.
Meanwhile, Pragyan Ojha believes that Pujara may not get a recreation for CSK straight up. But he additionally went on to say that his presence can be a giant enhance to the CSK camp.
Pujara has an honest report in T20s, the place he has hit runs with a median of near 30 and a strike fee touching 110. In 2019, he had smashed a ton within the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy that had surprised many.
On the opposite hand, Three-time Indian Premier League champions acquired one other blow forward of the beginning of the IPL season 14. After high Aussie pacer, Josh Hazlewood pulled out of the IPL simply days earlier than the beginning of the event, now the Chennai based mostly IPL franchise is discovering it arduous to interchange him.
According to a report in TOI, Australia’s Billy Stanlake and England’s pacer Reece Topley have rejected the provide to hitch the IPL franchise as a result of rise in Covid-19 circumstances in India.
The report added, different fringe gamers, who had been additionally approached by the franchise, have to date not accepted CSK’s provide. In addition, a member from the CSK content material crew additionally examined constructive for COVID-19 on Saturday, nonetheless, as per studies the involved particular person was not involved with any crew members.
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