Chennai Super Kings are equipped to face Gujarat Titans in the opening match of the Indian Premier League on Friday. Ahead of the match, the CSK squad was seen training, nonetheless, skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni skipped the online follow session due to an harm. This raised eyebrows at his participation in the primary match.
MS Dhoni sustained a left knee harm throughout a training session in Chennai and since of it, he had to miss the online follow on the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on Thursday. However, CSK CEO Kasi Viswanathan is optimistic that the star participant will play in the preliminary sport.
When CSK CEO was requested, he advised PTI, “As far as I am concerned, the skipper is 100 percent playing. I don’t know about any other development.”
In case Dhoni would not play, CSK then would possibly ask one amongst Devon Conway or Ambati Rayudu to hold wickets. With back-to-back matches lined up, there stays a risk that Dhoni would not like to danger taking part in and lacking extra matches in the latter phases of the match.
Earlier, CSK star bowler, Mukesh Choudhary was dominated out of the match due to harm and Akash Singh was named his substitute.
Chennai Super Kings efficiency in all editions of match
- 2008 – Runners up
- 2009 – Semifinals
- 2010 – Champions
- 2011 – Champions
- 2012 – Runners up
- 2013 – Runners up
- 2014 – Qualifier 2
- 2015 – Runners up
- 2018 – Champions
- 2019 – Runners up
- 2020 – Group stage
- 2021 – Champions
- 2022 – Group Stage (ninth)
Chennai Super Kings Full Squad:
Ben Stokes, Deepak Chahar, MS Dhoni, Moeen Ali, Ambati Rayudu, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Shivam Dube, Mitchell Santner, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Prashant Solanki, Devon Conway, Kyle Jamieson, Maheesh Theekshana, Nishant Sindhu, Ajinkya Rahane, Dwaine Pretorius, Ajay Mandal, Subhranshu Senapati, Akash Singh, Simarjeet Singh, Matheesha Pathirana, Bhagath Varma, Shaik Rasheed, Tushar Deshpande, Ravindra Jadeja
