Tag: Chennai Super Kings

Apart from Jaiswal, the likes of Dhruv Jurel (34 off 15), Jos Buttler (27 off 21), and Devdutt Padikkal (24 off 12) contributed to the Royals' big score on a batting-friendly pitch.

As a cricket enthusiast and Bollywood admirer, you must have seen Superstar Salman Khan in action on-field with gloves, pads and a bat. However, do you know the cricketer whom Sallu admires the most?

Asked to bat first by Dhoni in his 200th match as CSK skipper, the Rajasthan Royals innings developed in a stutter, smash, stutter mode as they lost Yashasvi Jaiswal (10) early with 11 runs on the board. They raced to 57/1 at the end of the Power-play and looked like cruising towards a huge total with Buttler and Padikkal going great guns.

Dhoni thus became the only captain in IPL history to lead the same side in 200 matches.

Rahane, who was roped in by CSK for his base price of Rs 50 lakh, came into the side as England Test captain Ben Stokes pulled out with an injury.

Earlier, South Africa’s SA20 was allowing franchises to announce their best XI players after the toss. With this new rule, IPL 2023 will become the second T20 franchise league to allow teams to announce their playing elevens after the toss.

Stokes will be playing for CSK in the upcoming season of the IPL 2023 and is supposed to fly to India and most probably replace MS Dhoni as the skipper of the franchise.

While fans are eagerly waiting for this year’s IPL, Dhoni will hopefully finish on a high in the yellow and not disappoint his fans.

Former India batter Sanjay Manjrekar agreed with his assessment that Dhoni will be the key for CSK.

With the 41-year-old four-time IPL-winning skipper set to retire for the final time soon, CSK are desperately looking for someone to take charge of the team and Styris believes Stokes is that man.

CSK have recently used the same image and replaced the faces of Ronaldo and Messi with that of West Indian cricketers Kieron Pollard and Dwayne Bravo.

Gaikwad, who is captaining Maharashtra in the match, achieved this feat in the 49th over of the innings.

All the speculations were put to rest as Jadeja featured in CSK’s list of retained players.

The star all-rounder has been a match-winner for CSK for years.

Mumbai Indians’ fans have pretty much started believing that Jadeja will be part of the MI team from next year.