IPL 2023 GT vs CSK: Here’s Why David Miller Will Not Play Gujarat Titans’ Opening Match Against MS Dhoni’s Chennai Super Kings

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IPL 2023 GT vs CSK: Here’s Why David Miller Will Not Play Gujarat Titans’ Opening Match Against MS Dhoni’s Chennai Super Kings


Gujarat Titans (GT) will play Chennai Super Kings (CSK) of their first house sport of IPL on Friday (March 31) on the Narendra Modi stadium in Ahmedabad. Expect an enormous roar from crowd of over 1 lakh followers when house captain Hardik Pandya and cricket icon MS Dhoni will come out for the toss at 7 pm IST on Friday. The opener couldn’t have been extra epic as defending champions GT tackle four-time champions CSK. On one facet would be the house crew hero Hardik whereas on the opposite facet a pan-India celebrity in Dhoni. 

GT performed excellent cricket all through final IPL to win the trophy and Hardik’s facet might be below stress to ship the products proper from the beginning of the match as they should defend the trophy. Playing at house has its advantages however the stress additionally doubles up. The title win final 12 months has definitely raises hopes from GT, who’ve a powerful squad even this season.

One huge miss for GT within the sport vs CSK would be the absence of their star performer from final 12 months. David Miller won’t be obtainable for choice as he has not joined the squad but. The South Africa center order batter is enjoying the ODIs vs Netherlands at house and might solely be part of the squad after April 1 when the sequence concludes. That means he’s certainly out of the first sport. Not simply him, the likes of Quinton de Kock (LSG), Kagiso Rabada (PBKS), Lungi Ngidi (DC), Aiden Markram (SRH) will not be obtainable for his or her franchises for his or her respective first video games.

CSK followers needn’t fear about all-rounder Dwaine Pretorius as he’s not a part of the SA ODI squad for Netherlands and has already joined the crew. Pretorius might be obtainable for choice from sport 1. 

CSK Squad: MS Dhoni, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Devon Conway, Moeen Ali, Subhranshu Senapati, Ambati Rayudu, Ravindra Jadeja, Shivam Dube, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Dwaine Pretorius, Mitchell Santner, Maheesh Theekshana, Prashant Solanki, Deepak Chahar, Mukesh Choudhary, Simarjeet Singh, Tushar Deshpande, Matheesha Pathirana, Ben Stokes, Sisanda Magala, Ajinkya Rahane, Shaik Rasheed, Nishant Sindhu, Ajay Mandal, Bhagath Varma

GT Squad: Shubman Gill, Sai Sudharsan, Wriddhiman Saha, Matthew Wade, David Miller, Rahul Tewatia, Abhinav Manohar, Hardik Pandya, Vijay Shankar, Rashid Khan, Sai Kishore, Noor Ahmad, Jayant Yadav, Alzarri Joseph, Mohammed Shami, Yash Dayal, Darshan Nalkande, Pradeep Sangwan, Shivam Mavi, Joshua Little, Kane Williamson, KS Bharat, Odean Smith, Mohit Sharma, Urvil Patel.





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