Lucknow Super Giants captain Ok.L. Rahul along with his Chennai Super Kings counterpart Ruturaj Gaikwad.
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hennai Super Kings will look to regain some momentum in what has been a start-stop marketing campaign when it takes on Lucknow Super Giants within the reverse fixture on the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium on April 23. The two sides met three days again in Lucknow, the place LSG simply prevailed by eight wickets.
Super Kings enters a vital part of the event with three matches at dwelling over the following eight days, which may decide the possibility of making the playoffs. CSK has gained all three video games in its yard this yr and will need to proceed that type to add to its 4 wins.
However, the defending champion has some large complications to clear up, primarily round its struggles within the PowerPlay with each bat and ball.
Runs have dried up for key top-order batters like Rachin Ravindra and Ajinkya Rahane, and the batting depends closely on Ruturaj Gaikwad and Shivam Dube. The skipper demoted himself to the quantity three within the final two matches, and it will likely be fascinating to see if he goes again to open. Similarly, the pacers’ incapacity to give early breakthroughs will probably be an space the staff wants to tackle.
Meanwhile, Super Giants had some positives from the earlier match. The bowlers set the sport up earlier than skipper Ok.L. Rahul led from the entrance with a quick-fire half-century alongside Quinton de Kock.
The presence of spinners Krunal Pandya, Ravi Bishnoi, and M. Siddharth provides the guests depth of their squad for the situations in Chepauk as they appear to do the double towards the five-time champion.
Squads:
Chennai Super Kings: Rachin Ravindra, Ruturaj Gaikwad (c), Ajinkya Rahane, Daryl Mitchell, Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, Sameer Rizvi, MS Dhoni (wk), Shardul Thakur, Tushar Deshpande, Mustafizur Rahman, Matheesha Pathirana, Nishant Sindhu, Moeen Ali, Mitchell Santner, Shaik Rasheed, Aravelly Avanish, Maheesh Theekshana, RS Hangargekar, Simarjeet Singh, Mukesh Choudhary, Prashant Solanki, Ajay Jadav Mandal, Richard Gleeson and Deepak Chahar.
Lucknow Super Giants: Quinton de Kock, KL Rahul (c & wk), Deepak Hooda, Ayush Badoni, Marcus Stoinis, Nicholas Pooran, Krunal Pandya, Ravi Bishnoi, Mohsin Khan, Shamar Joseph, Yash Thakur, Manimaran Siddharth, Prerak Mankad, Arshad Khan, Krishnappa Gowtham, Amit Mishra, Kyle Mayers, Ashton Turner, Matt Henry, Naveen-ul-Haq, Devdutt Padikkal, Yudhvir Singh Charak, Mayank Yadav and Arshin Kulkarni.
Match begin time: 7.30 PM (IST).
