The Big News is that Ravindra Jadeja has handed the Captaincy back to MS Dhoni, after not getting impressive results. MS Dhoni has led CSK right from the inaugural Season.
Overview:
Head-to-Head Record: SRH: 5 | CSK: 12
Sunrisers Hyderabad: After starting their season with 2 Losses, SRH went on to win 5 matches on trot and it took a Rashid special, to break that streak. They might have lost the last match but they look solid with performance. Umran Malik's 5-fer is a great positive for them but their Skipper needs to score and that too at a better Strike Rate as he struggles to score even a run a ball so far.
Chennai Super Kings: With just 2 wins in 8 matches, they are almost on a must win situation. With MS Dhoni back as the Captain, miracles can never be ruled out. Ambati Rayudu did wonders with the bat last match, but they will require consistent performances from Ruturaj Gaikwad and Robin Uthappa.
Probable XIs:
Sunrisers Hyderabad: Kane Williamson (capt.), Abhishek Sharma, Rahul Tripathi, Aiden Markram, Nicholas Pooran (WK), Shashank Singh, Washington Sundar, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Marco Jansen, Umran Malik, T Natarajan
Chennai Super Kings: Ruturaj Gaikwad, Robin Uthappa, Mitchell Santner / Moeen Ali, Ambati Rayudu, Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja , MS Dhoni (C & WK), Dwayne Bravo, Dwaine Pretorius, Mukesh Choudhary, Maheesh Theekshana.
Pitch Report:
Expect a low scoring nail biter at MCA. Spinners are going to get a good support. The last 2 matches here were won by teams batting first as they successfully defended 145 and 154 respectively. Toss winning team should be opting to Bat First.
Interesting Facts:
1. MS Dhoni, popularly known as Thala, is getting back his captaincy on the Birthday of Original Thala Actor Ajith Kumar.
2. Dhoni and Williamson are the only pair of ICC Trophy winning captains in IPL this season. Coincidentally, these 2 met in 2018 Finals too. CSK holds the record of defeating a single side 4 times in a single season over SRH.
3. Dhoni's last innings was his 200th IPL Innings
4. Ravindra Jadeja's last innings was his 100th Innings for CSK
5. Robin Uthappa (4950) needs 50 Runs to complete 5000 IPL Runs.
6. Ravindra Jadeja (2498 Runs) is just 2 runs shy of completing 2500 IPL Runs
7. Ambati Rayudu (98 Catches) needs 2 more catches to complete 100 T20 Catches. Interestingly, exactly half (49) of those came in IPL and so he need just one catch to complete 50 IPL Catches
8. Kane Williamson (98 Catches), like Rayudu, needs 2 catches to complete 100 T20 Catches.
9. CSK have 3 Batsmen who have more than 7 Ducks in IPL - Rayudu (13), Jadeja (8) and Uthappa (7) while SRH has none with more than 7 ducks. If Rayudu gets out on a duck, he would be having Most IPL Ducks along with Rohit Sharma, who currently tops the list with 14 Ducks
10. Dwayne Bravo (991 Runs) is 9 runs away from completing 1000 Runs for CSK
11. Ruturaj Gaikwad (977 Runs) needs just 23 Runs to complete 1000 Runs for CSK
12. Both the Skippers are struggling with the bat this season. Williamson has the lowest Strike Rate (93.08) among all those who have more than 100 Runs and Jadeja (112 Runs) has the lowest amount of runs among all who has got chance to bat in all games this season
13. This match will feature Top 3 Wicket taking Pacers of this season So far - Umran Malik (15) and T Natarajan (15) from SRH and Dwayne Bravo (14) from CSK
Dream XI team:
