By PL 2021-CSK vs DC-‘Chela’ Pant and Guru ‘Dhoni’ to be in competition between CSK and DC: Delhi Capitals, captained by Rishabh Pant and Chennai Super Kings by Mahendra Singh Dhoni, will face ‘a young Shargid and his maestro’ when they face off in an IPL match on Saturday.
The Delhi team was runners up in the last season played in the UAE. This time his goal will be to start with a win to fulfill his dream of winning the title.
Three-time champions Chennai Super Kings finished seventh among eight teams last year. The IPL team would like to start with a win to forget that poor performance.
Wicket-keeper batsman Pant, who was captained in the absence of injured Shreyas Iyer, recently said that he would use all the lessons he had learned from Dhoni in the first match.
He had said, “My first match as captain is against Mahi Bhai. It will be a good experience for me because I have learned so much from him. I will make full use of my experience and the lessons I have learned from him.”
Shikhar Dhawan near Delhi , Prithvi Shaw, Ajinkya Rahane, Steve Smith and Pant. Dhawan (618) was second in the list of batsmen who scored the most runs in the last IPL. He did well in the recent ODI series against England.
Sau scored 827 runs in the Vijay Hazare Trophy and it is likely that he will open the innings with Dhawan.
Captain Pant is in excellent form and proved to be the ‘match winner’ against Australia and England. Delhi also have all-rounders like Marcus Stoinis, Shimron Hetmyer and Sam Billings but the team combination will be a big challenge as there can be only four foreign players in the playing XI.
In the bowling department, they have Ishant Sharma, Kagiso Rabada, Umesh Yadav, Chris Woakes and Enrich Norkia. Even if Rabada and Norquia remain out of the first match due to segregation, Delhi’s bowling attack is very strong.
The spin will be on R Ashwin and Amit Mishra as Akshar Patel was found to be Corona positive.
On the other hand, the Chennai team has the return of experienced batsman Suresh Raina, who has scored 5368 runs in the IPL. He is in the second place in the list of most run-scorers. Chennai’s top order also stars Ruturaj Gaikwad, Faf du Plessi and Ambati Rayudu.
Youngsters Sam Curren, Moin Ali and Dhoni reinforce the middle order. In bowling, Shardul Thakur is in great form. Deepak Chahar and Ravindra Jadeja can also contribute in batting.
Teams:
Delhi Capitals:
Rishabh Pant (captain), Shikhar Dhawan, Marcus Stoinis, Prithvi Shaw, Ajinkya Rahane, Shimron Hetmyer, Chris Woakes, R Ashwin, Amit Mishra, Lalit Yadav, Praveen Dubey, Kagiso Rabada, Enrich Norquia, Ishant Sharma, Avesh Khan, Steve Smith, Umesh Yadav, Ripple Patel, Vishnu Vinod, M Siddharth, Tom Curren, Sam Billings, Lukman Meriwala.
Chennai Super Kings:
Mahendra Singh Dhoni (captain), Ambati Rayudu, KM Asif, Deepak Chahar, Suresh Raina, Dwayne Bravo, Faf du Plessi, Imran Tahir, N Jagadeeshan, Karn Sharma, Lungi Ngidi, Mitchell Santner, Ravindra Jadeja, Ruturaj Gaikwad , Shardul Thakur, Sam Curren, Harishankar Reddy, Bhagnath Verma, R Sai Kishore, Moin Ali, K Gautham, Cheteshwar Pujara, C Hari Nishant.
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