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IPL 2024: New-look Bengaluru face post-Dhoni Chennai
RCB vs CSK IPL 2024 opener:
- CSK lead RCB 20-10 in head to head IPL battles.
- MS Dhoni and Virat Kohli make their much-awaited comebacks.
- Ravindra Jadeja vs Glenn Maxwell promises to be the most intriguing individual battle of the evening.
- RCB haven't beaten CSK in Chennai since 2008.
- Ruturaj Gaikwad will captain his first-ever IPL game.
Five-time champions Chennai Super Kings are set to face Royal Challengers Bengaluru in the opening clash of the 2024 Indian Premier League (IPL) at the MA Chidambaram stadium on Friday.
Ahead of the mouth-watering clash, legendary MS Dhoni "handed" over the Chennai Super Kings captaincy to Ruturaj Gaikwad.
Gaikwad
● His CSK debut in 2020
● Represent the team in 52 games.
● A stylish opener.
● Last year, aggregating 590 runs in 16 games at an impressive strike rate of 147.50.
● His breakout year was 2021.
(635 runs in 16 games)
● Led the Indian team to the gold medal in the Asian Games last year. He has also led his domestic side Maharashtra.
● CSK Predicted XI:
Rachin Ravindra,
Ruturaj Gaikwad (c),
Ajinkya Rahane,
Daryl Mitchell,
Moeen Ali,
Ravindra Jadeja,
MS Dhoni (wk),
Shardul Thakur,
Deepak Chahar,
Tushar Deshpande,
Maheesh Theekshana.
Faf du Plessis (c),
Virat Kohli,
Rajat Patidar,
Glenn Maxwell,
Cameron Green,
Dinesh Karthik (wk),
Mahipal Lomror,
Alzarri Joseph,
Mohammed Siraj,
Karn Sharma,
Akash Deep.
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Across 10 cities, a total of 21 matches are scheduled during this period due to the Lok Sabha elections 2024. Each team is slated to play between three to five matches.
Mumbai Indians: Hardik Pandya (C), Rohit Sharma, Dewald Brevis, Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan, N. Tilak Varma, Tim David, Vishnu Vinod, Arjun Tendulkar, Shams Mulani, Nehal Wadhera, Jasprit Bumrah, Kumar Kartikeya, Piyush Chawla, Akash Madhwal, Luke Wood, Romario Shepherd, Gerald Coetzee, Shreyas Gopal, Nuwan Thushara, Naman Dhir, Anshul Kamboj, Mohammad Nabi, Shivalik Sharma. Players injured/withdrawn: Jason Behrendorff, Dilshan Madushanka.
Delhi Capitals: Rishabh Pant (C), Pravin Dubey, David Warner, Vicky Ostwal, Prithvi Shaw, Anrich Nortje, Abishek Porel, Kuldeep Yadav, Axar Patel, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Lalit Yadav, Khaleel Ahmed, Mitchell Marsh, Ishant Sharma, Yash Dhull, Mukesh Kumar, Tristan Stubbs, Ricky Bhui, Kumar Kushagra, Rasikh Dar, Jhye Richardson, Sumit Kumar, Shai Hope, Swastik Chhikara. Players injured/withdrawn: Harry Brook, Lungi Ngidi.
Punjab Kings: Shikhar Dhawan (C), Matthew Short, Prabhsimran Singh, Jitesh Sharma, Sikandar Raza, Rishi Dhawan, Liam Livingstone, Atharva Taide, Arshdeep Singh, Nathan Ellis, Sam Curran, Kagiso Rabada, Harpreet Brar, Rahul Chahar, Harpreet Bhatia, Vidwath Kaverappa, Shivam Singh, Harshal Patel, Chris Woakes, Ashutosh Sharma, Vishwanath Pratap Singh, Shashank Singh, Tanay Thyagarajann, Prince Choudhary, Rilee Rossouw.
Sunrisers Hyderabad: Aiden Markram (C), Abdul Samad, Abhishek Sharma, Marco Jansen, Rahul Tripathi, Washington Sundar, Glenn Phillips, Sanvir Singh, Heinrich Klaasen, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mayank Agarwal, T. Natarajan, Anmolpreet Singh, Mayank Markande, Upendra Singh Yadav, Umran Malik, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Shahbaz Ahmed , Travis Head, Wanindu Hasaranga, Pat Cummins, Jaydev Unadkat, Akash Singh, Jhathavedh Subramanyan.
Rajasthan Royals: Sanju Samson (C), Jos Buttler, Shimron Hetmyer, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Dhruv Jurel, Riyan Parag, Donovan Ferreira, Kunal Rathore, Ravichandran Ashwin, Kuldeep Sen, Navdeep Saini, Sandeep Sharma, Trent Boult, Yuzvendra Chahal, Adam Zampa, Avesh Khan, Rovman Powell, Shubham Dubey, Tom Kohler-Cadmore, Abid Mushtaq, Nandre Burger. Players injured/withdrawn: Prasidh Krishna.
Lucknow Super Giants: KL Rahul (C), Quinton de Kock, Nicholas Pooran, Ayush Badoni, Kyle Mayers, Marcus Stoinis, Deepak Hooda, Devdutt Padikkal, Ravi Bishnoi, Naveen-ul-Haq, Krunal Pandya, Yudhvir Singh, Prerak Mankad, Yash Thakur, Amit Mishra, Shamar Joseph, Mayank Yadav, Mohsin Khan, K. Gowtham, Shivam Mavi, Arshin Kulkarni, M. Siddharth, Ashton Turner, David Willey, Mohd. Arshad Khan. Players injured/withdrawn: Mark Wood.
Gujarat Titans: Shubman Gill (C), David Miller, Matthew Wade, Wriddhiman Saha, Kane Williamson, Abhinav Manohar, B. Sai Sudharsan, Darshan Nalkande, Vijay Shankar, Jayant Yadav, Rahul Tewatia, Noor Ahmad, Sai Kishore, Rashid Khan, Joshua Little, Mohit Sharma, Azmatullah Omarzai, Umesh Yadav, Shahrukh Khan, Sushant Mishra, Kartik Tyagi, Manav Suthar, Spencer Johnson. Players injured/withdrawn: Mohammed Shami, Robin Minz.
Royal Challengers Bangalore: Faf du Plessis (C), Glenn Maxwell, Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar, Anuj Rawat, Dinesh Karthik, Suyash Prabhudessai, Will Jacks, Mahipal Lomror, Karn Sharma, Manoj Bhandage, Mayank Dagar, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Akash Deep, Mohammed Siraj, Reece Topley, Himanshu Sharma, Rajan Kumar, Cameron Green, Alzarri Joseph, Yash Dayal, Tom Curran, Lockie Ferguson, Swapnil Singh, Saurav Chauhan.
Kolkata Knight Riders: Shreyas Iyer (C), Nitish Rana, Rinku Singh, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Phil Salt, Sunil Narine, Suyash Sharma, Anukul Roy, Andre Russell, Venkatesh Iyer, Harshit Rana, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakaravarthy, KS Bharat, Chetan Sakariya, Mitchell Starc, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Ramandeep Singh, Sherfane Rutherford, Manish Pandey, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Dushmantha Chameera, Sakib Hussain. Players injured/withdrawn: Jason Roy, Gus Atkinson.
Enjoy Cricket Festival 🏏
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