New Delhi. If the defending champion Chennai Super Kings team will enter the IPL match against Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) on Monday (April 8) with the intention of making a comeback with a win after two consecutive defeats, then it will expect better performance from its top order. Despite two consecutive defeats, there will be no pressure on the Super Kings team but the management will try to find solutions to the weaknesses of the team. Captain Ruturaj Gaikwad and talented Rachin Ravindra will have to improve their game and give a good start to the Super Kings in the power play. Gaikwad has been able to score runs only at a strike rate of 118.91 while Ravindra has failed to make an impact in the last two matches.
The most successful batsman of Super Kings in the current tournament is Shivam Dubey who has scored 148 runs at a strike rate of 160.86. It remains to be seen whether young Sameer Rizvi returns to the team or not. This 20-year-old young batsman scored 14 runs in six balls in his first match against Gujarat Titans but after failing to open the account against Delhi Capitals, he was dropped from the match against Sunrisers Hyderabad. Fast bowlers Mustafizur Rahman and Mathisa Pathirana could not play in the team’s last match due to various reasons, which exposed the weaknesses of the bowling department of Super Kings. If he remains out of the match against Knight Riders, then the Super Kings will have to think something different to compensate him.
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If these two remain out, then the responsibility will be on the shoulders of Deepak Chahar, Tushar Deshpande and Mukesh Chaudhary in the fast bowling department, while in the spin department the responsibility will be on the shoulders of Moeen Ali, Ravindra Jadeja and Mahesh Tikshana. Knight Riders and Rajasthan Royals have been unbeaten in the tournament so far and both teams have benefited from fearless performances with the bat. Making Sunil Narine open the innings is proving to be very beneficial for KKR. It will be a big challenge for the Super Kings bowlers to send Narayan, KKR’s most successful batsman in the current season, to the pavilion early. Phil Salt has also given good support to Narayan while opening the innings.
In the middle order, captain Shreyas Iyer and Ramandeep Singh will have to show more consistency while Andre Russell and Rinku Singh have impressed so far. Harshit Rana, Russell and Vaibhav Arora have performed well for KKR in bowling, while Mitchell Starc and Varun Chakravarthy are also slowly gaining momentum after failing in the first two matches. Overall, KKR have performed all-round and they would like to avoid making changes in their eleven.
Both teams are as follows:
Chennai Super Kings: Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Aravelli Avneesh, Devon Conway, Ruturaj Gaikwad (captain), Ajinkya Rahane, Sheikh Rashid, Moeen Ali, Shivam Dubey, RS Hungerkar, Ravindra Jadeja, Ajay Jadav Mandal, Daryl Mitchell, Rachin Ravindra, Mitchell Santner, Nishant Sindhu, Deepak Chahar, Tushar Deshpande, Mukesh Chaudhary, Mustafizur Rahman, Mathisa Pathirana, Simarjeet Singh, Prashant Solanki, Shardul Thakur, Mahesh Teekshana and Sameer Rizvi.
Kolkata Knight Riders: Shreyas Iyer (captain), KS Bharat, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Rinku Singh, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Sherfane Rutherford, Manish Pandey, Andre Russell, Nitish Rana, Venkatesh Iyer, Anukul Roy, Ramandeep Singh, Varun Chakraborty, Sunil Narine, Vaibhav Arora, Chetan Sakariya. , Harshit Rana, Suyyash Sharma, Mitchell Starc, Dushmantha Chameera, Saki Hussain and Mujeeb Ur Rahman.
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FIRST PUBLISHED: April 7, 2024, 16:27 IST