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After a thrilling season opener of the Indian Premier League on Friday, the VIVO IPL caravan moves to Mumbai on Saturday. Chennai Super Kings will take on Delhi Capitals at the Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai in match no. 2 of IPL 2021. It promises to be another high-voltage encounter where we all will witness a clash between the master and the apprentice. MS Dhoni, who is on the last bend of his career and has been turning up only for Chennai Super Kings since his retirement from international cricket last year, will lead the three-time champions against Delhi Capitals, who will be captained by Rishabh Pant, his long-term successor as India’s first-choice wicketkeeper. Pant has said in the past that he wants to emulate Dhoni but seems to be carving his own niche. While his power-hitting has already been well-known, his batting went a notch higher since the last Indian Premier League as he helped India win the Test series in Australia and against England at home.
The last year’s runners-up have also added Steve Smith to their squad. Their pace bowling attack, comprising Kagiso Rabada, Anrich Nortje, Umesh Yadav and Ishant Sharma along with all-rounders Chris Woakes, Tom Curran and Marcus Stoinis, is among the best in the league. Experienced and acclaimed spinners like off-spinner R Ashwin and leg-spinner Amit Mishra make up a very strong bowling line-up that will test the CSK batting line-up that performed very poorly in the last edition.
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At Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium, the pitch is always batting friendly, the batters get help from the surface and it provides very less assistance to the bowlers. The pitch is made of red clay which makes the surface very tough and the bowlers get extra bounce. Due to fair bounce and true nature – a big total is expected here when Chennai and Delhi take on each other.
Played- 23 | Chennai Super Kings won- 15 | Delhi Capitals won- 8 | NR- 0
Rishabh Pant, Suresh Raina, Steve Smith, Shikhar Dhawan, Faf du Plessis (C), Marcus Stoinis (VC), Ravindra Jadeja, Sam Curran, Ishant Sharma, Ravichandran Ashwin, Shardul Thakur.
Chennai Super Kings: Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ambati Rayudu, Faf du Plessis, Suresh Raina, MS Dhoni, Moeen Ali, Sam Curran, Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Deepak Chahar, Imran Tahir.
Delhi Capitals: Prithvi Shaw, Shikhar Dhawan, Ajinkya Rahane, Rishabh Pant, Marcus Stoinis, Sam Billings, Chris Woakes, Ravichandran Ashwin, Amit Mishra, Ishant Sharma, Umesh Yadav.
Chennai Super Kings: Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ambati Rayudu, Faf du Plessis, Suresh Raina, MS Dhoni (wk/C), Moeen Ali, Ravindra Jadeja, Sam Curran, Dwayne Bravo, Shardul Thakur, Deepak Chahar, Robin Uthappa, Imran Tahir, Cheteshwar Pujara, Karn Sharma, Jason Behrendorff, Krishnappa Gowtham, Bhagath Varma, Harishankar Reddy, KM Asif, N Jagadeesan, Hari Nishanth, Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore, Mitchell Santner, Lungi Ngidi.
Delhi Capitals: Shikhar Dhawan, Prithvi Shaw, Ajinkya Rahane, Rishabh Pant (wk/C), Marcus Stoinis, Shimron Hetmyer, Chris Woakes, Ravichandran Ashwin, Amit Mishra, Ishant Sharma, Umesh Yadav, Steven Smith, Sam Billings, Lukman Meriwala, Tom Curran, Kagiso Rabada, Avesh Khan, Praveen Dubey, Anrich Nortje, Vishnu Vinod, Manimaran Siddharth, Lalit Yadav, Ripal Patel.
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