IPL 2024 is going to start from Friday. The first match of the tournament will be played between Chennai Super Kings and Royal Challengers Bangalore. This match is to be played at MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai. Both the teams have reached Chennai for this great match. Meanwhile, there is a bad news for the fans of Chennai Super Kings. Actually, two star players of the team will not be able to play for Chennai in the first match of the season. Both these players have not been able to join the team yet due to injury. We are talking about Devon Conway and Mathisha Pathirana. Both these players are still injured due to which the team may suffer huge losses.
These players were the stars of last season
Chennai Super Kings won the IPL title last season. That season, under the captaincy of MS Dhoni, the team won the fifth title. CSK won that title with many star players and the names of Devon Conway and Mathisha Pathirana are also included among those star players. Devon Conway played 16 matches in IPL 2023 and in those 16 matches, he scored 672 runs at a strike rate of 139.71 and an average of 51.69. During this, he also played an unbeaten inning of 92 runs, which was his best inning in the IPL.
On the other hand, if we talk about Mathisha Pathirana, Mathisha Pathirana participated in a total of 12 matches in IPL 2023, where he took 19 wickets. Mathisha Pathirana bowled at an average of 19.53 during this period. Mathisha Pathirana did not let CSK feel the lack of experienced bowlers throughout the season. Rachin Ravindra and Mustafizur Rahman can be seen playing in the absence of Devon Conway and Mathisha Pathirana in IPL 2024. Both are foreign players, so captain MS Dhoni has no better option than these two players.
CSK squad for IPL 2024
MS Dhoni (captain and wicketkeeper), Ravindra Jadeja, Ajinkya Rahane, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Moeen Ali, Deepak Chahar, Shivam Dubey, Rajvardhan Hungerkar, Tushar Deshpande, Mitchell Santner, Mahesh Theekshana, Prashant Solanki, Simarjeet Singh, Mukesh Choudhary, Ajay Mandal, Nishant Sindhu, Sheikh Rashid, Rachin Ravindra, Shardul Thakur, Daryl Mitchell, Sameer Rizvi, Mustafizur Rahman, Avnish Rao Aravali (wk), Devon Conway, Mathisha Pathirana.
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