Chennai Super Kings are playing against Sunrisers Hyderabad on the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad as the 2 groups look to return to successful methods after losses in their earlier video games.
The two groups face one another in the batting paradise of Hyderabad. Both the groups have made a number of modifications with CSK lacking out on their two premier pacers in the type of Matheesha Pathirana and Mustafizur Rahman for the SRH clash.
Why Pathirana and Mustafizur are not playing?
Mustafizur continues to be not round as he went to Bangladesh to type out his visa points for the T20 World Cup 2024. Notably, Pathirana is out because of a niggle. “It’s going pretty well, the group is responding well. Nothing much changes for me, obviously this is a new challenge, but I’m feeling good. Pathirana has a niggle – three changes for us, Moeen Ali, Theekshana and Mukesh Chowdhary come in. The bowlers are ready to go and so are the youngsters,” CSK skipper Ruturaj Gaikwad stated on the toss.
Notably, SRH captain Pat Cummins gained the toss and opted to bowl first. “We’ll bowl first. Looks like a good wicket and should stay the same for the whole match. We’ve got a great squad. Mayank Agarwal is unwell, he’s replaced by Nitish Reddy. Natarajan is back as well. Last time, there were 500 runs scored, this looks like a good wicket as well,” Cummins stated on the toss.
Mustafizur travelled again residence to type out his visa points for the upcoming T20 World Cup 2024. The left-arm speedster has been a significant cog in CSK’s bowling assault and is the joint-highest wicket-taker in the match together with Mohit Sharma. The pacer held the purple cap just lately earlier than Mohit took it away from the CSK pacer. Notably, Pathirana has scalped 4 wickets and is the go-to bowler for CSK on the demise.
Sunrisers and Super Kings have confronted one another 19 occasions and the latter facet holds a major benefit of 14-5 in head-to-head competitions.
SRH’s Playing XI:
Abhishek Sharma, Aiden Markram, Heinrich Klaasen (wk), Abdul Samad, Nitish Reddy, Shahbaz Ahmed, Pat Cummins (c), Jaydev Unadkat, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mayank Markande, T Natarajan
CSK’s Playing XI:
Ruturaj Gaikwad (c), Rachin Ravindra, Ajinkya Rahane, Moeen Ali, Daryl Mitchell, Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, MS Dhoni (wk), Deepak Chahar, Tushar Deshpande, Maheesh Theekshana
