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Clearly Delhi Capitals are in better form with four wins in the last five games. They were brilliant in the last season’s final half and have started the season with the same energy. Chennai Super Kings are struggling in their last five matches. They lost three games out of their last five showing a need of improvement from this match itself.
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MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai is always known to assist spinners and so is this year with Noor Ahmad picking up wickets for fun at this venue. In the first two games this season, the par score is 150-160 which means if a team can stop another team under 150 or between 150-160, they can chase the target but once it is over 160, it becomes a hard game for the chasing team to win.
The results between CSK and DC are quite self explanatory with CSK winning 19 matches out of 30 matches. However Chennai lost the last head-to-head game in 2024 by 20 runs and this is a pressure game for Chennai Super Kings due to their recent numbers making it more of a psychological battle.
Rachin Ravindra, Rahul Tripathi, Ruturaj Gaikwad(c), Vijay Shankar, Ravindra Jadeja, MS Dhoni(w), Jamie Overton, Ravichandran Ashwin, Noor Ahmad, Matheesha Pathirana, Khaleel Ahmed
Impact Players: Shivam Dube, Mukesh Choudhary, Devon Conway, Shaik Rasheed, Sam Curran
Injury Update: None
Jake Fraser-McGurk, Faf du Plessis, Abishek Porel, KL Rahul(w), Axar Patel(c), Tristan Stubbs, Vipraj Nigam, Mitchell Starc, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohit Sharma, Mukesh Kumar
Impact Players: Karun Nair, Ashutosh Sharma, Sameer Rizvi, Donovan Ferreira, Tripurana Vijay
Injury Updates: None
Faf du Plessis has not done well against Noor Ahmad. In three years, he has scored only 10 runs from 10 balls and got out 3 times. His strike rate is 100.0, and his average is just 3.3. He has played 4 dot balls and hit only one four, with no sixes. Noor Ahmad has clearly won this battle.
Ruturaj Gaikwad has played better against Mohit Sharma. He has scored 14 runs from 9 balls and got out only once. His strike rate is 155.6, and his average is 14.0. He has played 1 dot ball, hit 2 fours, but no sixes. He has mostly played safely against Mohit Sharma.
KL Rahul has an average record against Matheesha Pathirana. He has scored 13 runs from 11 balls and got out once. His strike rate is 118.2, and his average is 13.0. He has played 4 dot balls, hit no fours, but managed 1 six. Pathirana has kept him quiet most of the time.
Not much to explain about Rachin Ravindra as he is in sublime form in the last few months scoring two centuries in Champions Trophy while scoring 65 not out against Mumbai Indians in the first match in Chennai. He is a must have player for this match against Dekhi Capitals.
Noor Ahmad is the purple cap holder this season with nine wickets in just three games. He has taken wickets in every match for CSK. He took four wickets in the very first match against Mumbai Indians and followed that up with 3 for 36 against Royal Challengers Bengaluru and 2 for 28 against Rajasthan Royals in the last game. He will be important in a day game with more spin on offer.
Faf Du Plessis is a former CSK player and has vast experience of playing at MA Chidambaram Stadium for so long. He is one of CSK’s top run getters till date. Playing at MA Chidambaram Stadium, Faf has scored a total of 588 runs with an average of 36.75 including four half centuries. He has an average of 39.40 against the Chennai Super Kings.
Mohit Sharma used to play for Chennai Super KIngs and his best season with the ball where he won the purple cap came under MS Dhoni as a CSK player. He has played 15 games at MA Chidambaram Stadium taking a total of 19 wickets with a best of 3/25 runs. While he has taken a total of 11 wickets in just 6 games against Chennai Super Kings with an strike-rate of 12.09.
Abhishek Porel was the find for Delhi Capitals in the last season, scoring 327 runs in 12 innings with an average of 32.70. He scored two fifties in that season. In the last game against SRH, Porel scored 34 runs off 18 balls not out and will be important in this match as well for Delhi Capitals.
Rahul Tripathi scored 23 off just 19 balls in the last match and was looking good. He will open the innings for Chennai Super Kings and Delhi have just Mitchell Starc to bowl in the powerplay which gives Rahul more advantage with no real threat other than Starc. He can score good runs in this match against Delhi Capitals.
Both Rizvi and Curran were part of the playing 11 in the first few games but they were eventually pulled out. Rizvi made way for KL Rahul in the team while Curran was ineffective in the death and batting as well. They will not feature in this match and will be a part of the Impact player’s list. You can avoid these players in this match.
Keeper: KL Rahul
Batters: Faf Du Plessis, Rachin Ravindra, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Jake Freser McGurk
All-rounders: Axar Patel
Bowlers: Mitchell Starc, Mohit Sharma, Khaleel Ahmed, Noor Ahmad, Matheesa Pathirana
Keeper: KL Rahul, Abishek Porel
Batters: Faf Du Plessis, Rachin Ravindra, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Rahul Tripahti
All-rounders: Axar Patel
Bowlers: Mohit Sharma, Khaleel Ahmed, Noor Ahmad, Matheesa Pathirana
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