Chennai Super Kings (CSK) will take on Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) in the 29th game of the IPL 2023 on Friday (April 21) at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai. The Super Kings have won three out of five games and are placed third in the points table. They are coming into this game after winning their previous outing against the Royal Challengers Bangalore by 8 runs. CSK posted a total of 226 runs for the loss of six wickets in 20 overs with the help of half-centuries from Devon Conway and Shivam Dube. Conway scored 83 runs off 45 and was adjudged Player of the Match. Royal Challengers had the match in their pocket due to a brilliant partnership between Faf du Plessis and Glenn Maxwell. But, they lost a couple of wickets towards the end of their innings, which cost them the game. Tushar Deshpande was again the pick of the bowlers for CSK as he
Sunrisers have won just two out of five games so far and are in the second-last position in the points table. They started their campaign with two losses but gained momentum after winning two back-to-back matches. However, they fell short in the previous game against Mumbai Indians. MI posted a total of 192 runs for the loss of five wickets in 20 overs with a splendid knock of 64 runs off 40 deliveries from Cameron Green. Green also played a key role with the ball and picked the wicket of the Sunrisers’ skipper, Aiden Markram. Sunrisers ended their innings with 178 runs on the board and lost the game by 14 runs.
PROBABLE PLAYING XI
Chennai Super Kings
RD Gaikwad, Devon Conway, AT Rayudu, Ajinkya Rahane, MM Ali, RA Jadeja, S Dubey, MS Dhoni(C), TU Deshpande, Matheesha Pathirana, M Theekshana
BENCH : Ben Stokes, Mitchell Santner, DL Chahar, RS Hangargekar, SP Senapati, Shaik Rasheed, Nishant Sindhu, Simarjeet Singh, SSB Magala, Dwaine Pretorius, Bhagath Varma, AJ Mandal, Mukesh Choudhary, Prashant Solanki, Akash Singh
Sunrisers Hyderabad
Mayank Agarwal, RA Tripathi, HC Brook, AK Markram(C), Abhishek Sharma, Washington Sundar, M Jansen, H Klaasen(wk), B Kumar, T Natarajan, M Markande
BENCH : Glenn Phillips, Umran Malik, AU Rashid, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Abdul Samad, UD Yadav, Vivrant Sharma, MJ Dagar, K Nitish Kumar Reddy, SB Vyas, Anmolpreet Singh, Sanvir Singh, AJ Hosein, Kartik Tyagi
PITCH REPORT
So far, the two games at the MA Chidambaram have been high-scoring and were won by the team batting first. This trend might get repeated in this match as well. Both teams have a solid batting unit and might produce a high-scoring encounter. The average first innings score in the last five T20 games has been over 160 runs.
