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Upbeat LSG go to Dhoni and Co on house turf

Big image – CSK get their house floor again for full season

If your reflexes decelerate with age, how is Chennai Super Kings’ ‘Dad’s Army’ planning to face Mark Wood’s fiery tempo on Monday? Jokes apart, Super Kings’ youngest batter Ruturaj Gaikwad was in blazing type of their opening sport and will maintain the important thing once more together with his capability to place away even good balls to the boundary. Jokes not apart, their different batters have to step up, as coach Stephen Fleming stated after the sport, as a result of Gaikwad had laid a protracted runway for them by powering them to 114 for 3 in 12 overs, however their center over could not take off, managing simply 64 extra in eight overs.

Their most comforting issue, nonetheless, is that they return to their den after 4 lengthy years. They have at all times picked their spinners primarily based on situations at Chepauk, batted properly there, and received a whopping 40 of their 56 matches at house.

Many Lucknow Super Giants gamers can be unfamiliar with that floor, however so will some Super Kings gamers. What will enhance Super Giants’ confidence can be how their energy hitters smashed 16 sixes (and simply 5 fours) on a difficult pitch on Saturday evening for what regarded like an above-par 193 in Lucknow. They now have to ensure they adapt neatly on a extra turning pitch – they collected 73 off eight overs of spin in opposition to Delhi Capitals – and put together for the sport shortly after flying from Lucknow to Chennai with solely a day’s hole.

Team news

Quinton de Kock will fly to Chennai after South Africa’s ultimate ODI in opposition to Netherlands finishes on Sunday night, which makes his participation for Monday extremely unlikely. However, Super Giants will not sweat over it contemplating the best way Kyle Mayers opened with a 38-ball 73 of their first sport.

Similarly, Super Kings can be with out Sisanda Magala, who’s with the South Africa squad, and the Sri Lanka pair of Maheesh Theekshana and Matheesha Pathirana who’re lacking their first three video games due to the continuing T20Is in New Zealand

Toss and Impact Player technique

Lucknow Super Giants
Did Super Giants nail the usage of the Impact Player of their first match? Batting first, they introduced in Ok Gowtham after 19.5 overs when Ayush Badoni fell for 18 off seven, and Gowtham walked out to smash a six on the one ball he confronted. Gowtham then bowled 4 overs for simply 23 runs inspite of a whole lot of dew. They might do the identical on Monday if batting first, and the reverse in the event that they bowl first. Additionally, they could even decide an additional spinner rather than Jaydev Unadkat, who leaked 39 in three overs in opposition to Capitals and has a forgettable report in opposition to MS Dhoni and Super Kings each.

Probable bat-first XI: 1 KL Rahul (capt & wk), 2 Kyle Mayers, 3 Deepak Hooda, 4 Nicholas Pooran, 5 Marcus Stoinis, 6 Ayush Badoni, 7 Krunal Pandya, 8 Avesh Khan, 9 Ravi Bishnoi, 10 Amit Mishra, 11 Mark Wood

Probable bowl-first XI: 1 KL Rahul (capt & wk), 2 Kyle Mayers, 3 Deepak Hooda, 4 Nicholas Pooran, 5 Marcus Stoinis, 6 Krunal Pandya, 7 Ok Gowtham, 8 Avesh Khan, 9 Ravi Bishnoi, 10 Amit Mishra, 11 Mark Wood

Chennai Super Kings
Super Kings might wish to rethink their technique from the primary sport. Bringing in Tushar Deshpande for Ambati Rayudu after they completed batting was good pondering, however the bowler leaked 51 runs in simply 3.2 overs. But with out Magala, Theekshana and Pathirana their solely skilled choice as an alternative of Deshpande is Simarjeet Singh as a result of Dwaine Pretorius cannot be introduced in if they begin with 4 abroad gamers. Knowing MS Dhoni, he might not make any adjustments in any respect.

Possible bat-first XI: 1 Ruturaj Gaikwad, 2 Devon Conway, 3 Ben Stokes, 4 Moeen Ali, 5 Ambati Rayudu, 6 Ravindra Jadeja, 7 Shivam Dube, 8 MS Dhoni (capt, wk), 9 Mitchell Santner, 10 Deepak Chahar, 11 Rajvardhan Hangargekar

Possible bowl-first XI: 1 Ruturaj Gaikwad, 2 Devon Conway, 3 Ben Stokes, 4 Moeen Ali, 5 Ravindra Jadeja, 6 Shivam Dube, 7 MS Dhoni (capt, wk), 8 Mitchell Santner, 9 Rajvardhan Hangargekar, 10 Deepak Chahar, 11 Simarjeet Singh/Tushar Deshpande

Stats that matter

  • Super Giants opener KL Rahul begins gradual generally however he strikes at 160 in opposition to Deepak Chahar and has by no means fallen to him.
  • It can be Devon Conway’s first sport at Chepauk and he already has a promising report in opposition to spin within the IPL: 53 runs off 23 balls, putting at 230.43, and only one dismissal
  • Moeen did not bowl in opposition to Capitals however he in all probability will in Chennai, particularly with left-handed batters Mayers, Nicholas Pooran and Krunal Pandya within the reverse XI. In the IPL, Moeen has leaked at simply 6.79 an over to left-hand batters.

    • Pitch and situations

    Spinners picked 11 of the 18 wickets taken by bowlers within the latest ODI between India and Australia, and Monday’s sport could possibly be related, with not too many runs in retailer. It’s additionally anticipated to be scorching and really humid with some breeze round. And do not anticipate any empty seats as a result of, properly, it is Dhoni returning to his “second home”.

    Vishal Dikshit is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo

    Source web site: www.espncricinfo.com

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