CSK and Punjab Kings look to bounce again from heavy defeats

Big Picture – Can the Kings storm CSK’s fortress?

While CSK have been on a three-match successful streak earlier than that defeat, Punjab haven’t been capable of string collectively two victories since their first two video games. This is the primary assembly between these sides this season, and CSK begin favourites of their residence fortress.

While Chepauk has been a high-scoring venue this season, MS Dhoni banks on his spinners for management, and the Kings have not had a terrific document in opposition to spin since final season. Their batters have the bottom common (20.07) and strike price (116.76) in opposition to spin. Their two most skilled batters, Shikhar Dhawan and Liam Livingstone, don’t go arduous in opposition to spin: they strike at round 123 in opposition to spinners within the IPL.

The Kings even have a pace-heavy assault, in contrast to CSK, which might not be greatest suited to Chepauk, and they’ll hope that their world-class assault of Kagiso Rabada, Arshdeep Singh and Sam Curran can rise above the circumstances. Rahul Chahal, their lead spinner, has taken solely two wickets this season, and their different spin-bowling choices are Harpreet Brar, Sikandar Raza and Livingstone.

CSK are within the high half of the desk and the Kings are within the backside half, however solely two factors separate the edges after eight video games.

Form Guide

Chennai Super Kings LWWWL (final 5 matches, most up-to-date first)
Punjab Kings LWLWL

Team News – CSK proceed to attend on Stokes, Chahar

The news from the CSK camp is that Ben Stokes and Deepak Chahar are usually not but match sufficient to play. Stokes has performed solely two video games this season, whereas Chahar has performed three.

Possible XIs and Impact Player

CSK haven’t made drastic modifications to date. Even although their Impact Player Ambati Rayudu has did not get going this season, they’re prone to persist with their similar XII.

Likely XII: 1 Devon Conway, 2 Ruturaj Gaikwad, 3 Ajinkya Rahane, 4 Moeen Ali, 5 Shivam Dube 6 Ambati Rayudu 7 Ravindra Jadeja, 8 MS Dhoni (capt. & wk), 9 Matheesha Pathirana, 10 Tushar Deshpande, 11 Maheesh Theekshana, 12 Akash Singh

Kings are prone to deliver again left-arm spinner Harpreet Brar instead of seamer Gurnoor Brar.

Likely XII: 1 Shikhar Dhawan (capt.), 2 Prabhsimran Singh, 3Atharva Taide, 4 Sikandar Raza, 5 Liam Livingstone, 6 Sam Curran, 7 Jitesh Sharma (wk), 8 Shahrukh Khan, 9 Kagiso Rabada, 10 Rahul Chahar, 11 Harpreet Brar, 11 Arshdeep Singh.

Pitch and circumstances

Humidity apart, partly cloudy circumstances and a few rain is forecast for Chennai.

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