Match particulars
Chennai Tremendous Kings (CSK) vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB)
Chennai, 1930 IST (1400 GMT)
Massive image: Can RCB break the Chennai jinx?
However proper now, during this IPL, du Plessis has shed his yellow second pores and skin for the purple and blue of Royal Challengers Bengaluru. As soon as a crowd favorite at Chepauk, he’ll play his first sport as RCB captain in Chennai on Friday. Nevertheless, his counterpart is not going to be the person du Plessis would have anticipated to go up towards.
Chahal is now with Rajasthan Royals whereas Moeen may line up towards RCB on Friday together with three different spinners – Maheesh Theekshana, Ravindra Jadeja and part-timer Rachin Ravindra – on what could possibly be one other sluggish pitch. In distinction, RCB haven’t got a world-class spinner in their ranks: their choices are Mayank Dagar (left-arm fingerspin), Himanshu Sharma (thriller spin), Karn Sharma (legspin) and Swapnil Singh (left-arm fingerspin). It looks as if RCB have put all their eggs in the batting basket for each their dwelling and away video games this season.
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Toss and Influence Participant technique
Chennai Tremendous Kings
Potential bat-first XI: 1 Ruturaj Gaikwad (capt), 2 Rachin Ravindra, 3 Ajinkya Rahane, 4 Moeen Ali, 5 Daryl Mitchell, 6 Shivam Dube, 7 Ravindra Jadeja, 8 MS Dhoni (wk), 9 Shardul Thakur, 10 Deepak Chahar, 11 Maheesh Theekshana
Potential bowl-first XI: 1 Ruturaj Gaikwad (capt), 2 Rachin Ravindra, 3 Ajinkya Rahane, 4 Moeen Ali, 5 Daryl Mitchell, 6 Ravindra Jadeja, 7 MS Dhoni (wk), 8 Shardul Thakur, 9 Deepak Chahar, 10 Maheesh Theekshana, 11 Mukesh Choudhary/Tushar Deshpande
Royal Challengers Bengaluru
One in every of Anuj Rawat, Mahipal Lomror or Suyash Prabhudessai is perhaps picked to elongate RCB’s batting in the event that they bat first, to get replaced by a spinner – Himanshu or Karn – in the second innings. Or vice versa.
Potential bat-first XI: 1 Faf du Plessis (capt), 2 Virat Kohli, 3 Rajat Patidar, 4 Glenn Maxwell, 5 Cameron Inexperienced, 6 Anuj Rawat/Mahipal Lomror/Suyash Prabhudessai, 7 Dinesh Karthik (wk), 8 Alzarri Joseph, 9 Mayank Dagar, 10 Akash Deep/Vyshak Vijaykumar, 11 Mohammed Siraj
Potential bowl-first XI: 1 Faf du Plessis (capt), 2 Virat Kohli, 3 Rajat Patidar, 4 Glenn Maxwell, 5 Cameron Inexperienced, 6 Dinesh Karthik (wk), 7 Alzarri Joseph, 8 Mayank Dagar, 9 Akash Deep/Vyshak Vijaykumar, 10 Himanshu Sharma/Karn Sharma, 11 Mohammed Siraj
Stats that matter
Pitch and situations
The massive query
If du Plessis, Maxwell and Inexperienced begin for RCB, who ought to they decide as their fourth abroad participant?
53 votes
Quotes
“I had the pleasure of working with Rachin of the New Zealand facet final yr in the UK. And watching him function then, I had little doubt that he would match in nicely. He is very desperate to be taught. He is very early in his worldwide profession. However with every hurdle, he is clambered over fairly nicely.”
CSK coach Stephen Fleming on Rachin Ravindra
“He is a confirmed worldwide performer and a confirmed IPL performer. He has tempo and bounce at a very good launch peak. There’s rather a lot to love there and the identical is true for our different abroad quicks. Faf is aware of Alzarri nicely [having worked with him at the CPL with Andy Flower]. So, that is why he was a key goal for us on the public sale.”
RCB director of cricket Mo Bobat on Alzarri Joseph
Deivarayan Muthu is a sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo