IPL 2021, CSK vs DC: The match is being held in Mumbai. (File)IPL 2021, CSK vs DC: Delhi Capitals won the toss and elected to bowl first against Chennai Super Kings in an IPL 2021 encounter in Mumbai on Saturday.
For DC, Tom Curran and Chris Woakes got a look-in with Kagiso Rabada and Anrich Nortje still serving their quarantine. Shimron Hetmyer and Marcus Stoinis completed their overseas line-up. For CSK, Dwayne Bravo, Sam Curran, Moeen Ali and Faf Du Plessis are the four foreign players with Ravindra Jadeja making a comeback to competitive cricket.
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Chennai Super Kings (Playing XI): Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ambati Rayudu, Faf du Plessis, Suresh Raina, MS Dhoni (wk/c), Moeen Ali, Ravindra Jadeja, Sam Curran, Dwayne Bravo, Shardul Thakur, Deepak Chahar
Delhi Capitals (Playing XI): Shikhar Dhawan, Prithvi Shaw, Ajinkya Rahane, Rishabh Pant (wk/c), Marcus Stoinis, Shimron Hetmyer, Chris Woakes, Ravichandran Ashwin, Tom Curran, Amit Mishra, Avesh Khan
Match 2, Wankhede Stadium, 10 Apr, 2021
The IPL made its comeback last night with a RCB win over MI. Now, DC have won the toss and have sent CSK out to bat first.
Chennai Super Kings (Playing XI): Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ambati Rayudu, Faf du Plessis, Suresh Raina, MS Dhoni (w/c), Moeen Ali, Ravindra Jadeja, Sam Curran, Dwayne Bravo, Shardul Thakur, Deepak Chahar
Delhi Capitals (Playing XI): Shikhar Dhawan, Prithvi Shaw, Ajinkya Rahane, Rishabh Pant (w/c), Marcus Stoinis, Shimron Hetmyer, Chris Woakes, Ravichandran Ashwin, Tom Curran, Amit Mishra, Avesh Khan
As for the pitch, the wicket at the Wankhede will favour the batsmen. It has historically been a batting-friendly venue, and that trend is likely to continue tonight. Anything around 180 will be a competitive total. The pacers should fare better than the spinners.
As for the weather, it should be around 30 degrees celsius in Mumbai on Saturday. Dew is likely to play a role later in the match.
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The two teams have played 23 times against each other. While CSK won 15 matches, DC romped home on eight occasions.
“Dear Delhi, I speak to you today as a fellow fan of the team we love. We fight the same fight we always did. We know it won’t be easy but we know we have got what it takes to raise the cup. We have worked hard, harder than before. We have put in the yards harder than before and the best part is we go beyond than just a team,” regular DC captain Shreyas Iyer said in a video posted on Twitter.
On Sunday, against DC, Dhoni could script history if he manages to get two more dismissals by stumping or taking a catch. Dhoni currently has 148 dismissals as wicketkeeper in IPL, and if he manages to get two more, he will become the first keeper in the history of the T20 tournament to reach 150 dismissals as wicketkeeper. Dinesh Karthik (140), Robin Uthappa (90), Parthiv Patel (81), and Wriddhiman Saha (76) are the other top keepers in the IPL.
India head coach Ravi Shastri’s tweet on Rishabh Pant and MS Dhoni hours before the Chennai Super Kings vs Delhi Capitals IPL 2021 match number 2 in Mumbai has gone viral on Twitter. His special request is that the stump mics be turned up today.
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CSK Probable XI: Robin Uthappa, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Faf du Plessis, Suresh Raina, MS Dhoni (c), Ravindra Jadeja, Sam Curran, Dwayne Bravo, Shardul Thakur, Deepak Chahar, Krishnappa Gowtham
DC Probable XI: Shikhar Dhawan, Prithvi Shaw, Steve Smith, Shimron Hetmeyr, Rishabh Pant (c), Marcus Stoinis, Amit Mishra, Ravichandran Ashwin, Chris Woakes, Umesh Yadav, Ishant Sharma
As for the pitch, the wicket at the Wankhede will favour the batsmen. It has historically been a batting-friendly venue, and that trend is likely to continue tonight. Anything around 180 will be a competitive total. The pacers should fare better than the spinners.
As for the weather, it should be around 30 degrees celsius in Mumbai on Saturday. Dew is likely to play a role later in the match.
MS Dhoni became India’s top trend ahead of CSK’s IPL 2021 opener against DC on Saturday. Dhoni – who has not played cricket for six months – would be making a comeback and fans are excited.
Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) officials have been asked to carry a negative Covid-19 report to attend Indian Premier League (IPL) matches at the Wankhede Stadium. Even vaccinated officials and staff members have been asked to carry a Covid-19 negative report. As per BCCI's protocol, all the officials who would be attending the IPL 2021 matches at Wankhede Stadium are required to produce a negative report of RT-PCR test conducted within 48 hours of the match day," wrote MCA secretary Sanjay Naik.
MS Dhoni has registered 148 dismissals as a wicketkeeper in the tournament. Once he effects 2 more dismissals, he will become the first wicketkeeper to complete 150 dismissals in the cash-rich league.
Rishabh Pant will become the fifth-youngest IPL captain once he takes the field against CSK in the second match. Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Steve Smith, and Suresh Raina became IPL captains at a lower age than Pant before.
Rishabh Pant, anointed to captaincy in the absence of injured Shreyas Iyer, has said recently that he would put his learning from MS Dhoni to use in DC's season opener against CSK. “My first match as captain will be against Mahi bhai. It will be a good experience for me as I have learned a lot from him. I’ll apply my own experience and learning from him,” Pant had said recently.
Chennai Super Kings are the most successful team in the IPL with 106 wins out of 179 games. This means their win percentage stands at 59.83, leading by few decimal points ahead of their competitor Mumbai Indians (59.11).
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CSK have signed Jason Behrendorff as replacement for Josh Hazelwood in IPL 2021. Behrendorff will not be available for Chennai Super Kings for the first two games. CSK will be without Lungi Ngidi and Behrendorff in the first game.
- In 6 innings, Deepak Chahar has dismissed Prithvi Shaw five times
- Dhawan has scored 777 in 23 innings against CSK at an average of 40.89 and strike rate of 127.80. His maiden T20 century came against them last season.
- Amit Mishra has dismissed Robin Uthappa and Suresh Raina four times each in the IPL.
"I haven't thought about the fact that it's my first match as captain in the IPL. I am just going to keep things simple and give my 100 percent. You get a good idea about setting fields as a wicketkeeper and now as captain I will be making the changes in the field directly."
Chennai will be bolstered by the return of the experienced batsman Suresh Raina, who is their all-time leading run-scorer, with 5,368 runs. Raina will strengthen the top-order, which has the likes of young Ruturaj Gaikwad, South African Faf Du Plessis and Ambati Rayudu. With the likes of young Sam Curran, who almost pulled off a win for England in the final ODI against India, and Moeen Ali, along with great finisher Dhoni, Chennai also have a stable middle-order.
The Delhi team also possesses the likes of all-rounder Marcus Stonis, Shimron Hetymar and Sam Billings but will have to get their team combination right, as only four overseas players can feature in the playing XI. They have enough options to choose from the battery of pacers comprising Ishant Sharma, Kagiso Rabada, Umesh Yadav, Chris Woakes and Anrich Nortje.
Rishabh Pant (c & wk), Shikhar Dhawan, Prithvi Shaw, Ajinkya Rahane, Shimron Hetmyer, Marcus Stoinis, Chris Woakes, R Ashwin, Amit Mishra, Lalit Yadav, Pravin Dubey, Kagiso Rabada, Anrich Nortje, Ishant Sharma, Avesh Khan, Steve Smith, Umesh Yadav, Ripal Patel, Vishnu Vinod, Lukman Meriwala, M Siddarth, Tom Curran, Sam Billings.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni (c & wk), Suresh Raina, Ambati Rayudu, KM Asif, Deepak Chahar, Dwayne Bravo, Faf du Plessis, Imran Tahir, N Jagadeesan, Karn Sharma, Lungi Ngidi, Mitchell Santner, Ravindra Jadeja, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Shardul Thakur, Sam Curran, R Sai Kishore, Moeen Ali, K Gowtham, Cheteshwar Pujra, Harishankar Reddy, Bhagath Varma, C Hari Nishaanth.
It's an encounter between the principal and disciple today in IPL 2021. Delhi Capitals would be hoping to bring in last season's form and CSK might want to forget last year's disaster. On paper, Delhi seems like favorites but Chennai knows how to tackle all the odds. Stay tuned for all the live updates.