Dubai, Oct 2: After a six-day break, MS Dhoni-led Chennai Super Kings will return to action on Friday (October 2) as they face a confident Sunrisers Hyderabad at Dubai International Stadium.
The Super Kings have lost two matches of out of three and find themselves at the bottom half of the table, which in itself is a rarity. In their last match, Super Kings were beaten by Delhi Capitals, while Sunrisers tasted win to defeat Delhi Capitals after two successive defeats.
CSK might bring in a few changes and reports that Ambati Rayudu has recovered from the hamstring injury and he might walk-in in the place of Ruturaj Gaikwad. It may also be pondered over that Gaikwad still may retain his place in the 11 at the expense of opener Murali Vijay.
Dwayne Bravo is also fit, and it remains to be seen that how the West Indian will be fitted into the line-up as Sam Curran has done a good job in the all-rounder's role. They will hope that Ravindra Jadeja finds his range soon and we may also see captain Dhoni walking out up the order.
Sunrisers Hyderabad They might not tweak the XI from the winning one that played the last match. They will be eager to see the middle-order consisting Abhishek Sharma and Manish Pandey contributing a few more runs. Bowling looked in safe hands with T Natarajan and Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Rashid Khan finding their form.
Here MyKhel brings to you the match updates between CSK and SRH:
Dhoni unbeaten in a losing run chase (IPL) 63* vs MI Kolkata 2013 42* vs KXIP Mumbai WS 2014 79* vs KXIP Mohali 2018 84* vs RCB Bengaluru 2019 29* vs RR Sharjah 2020 47* vs SRH Dubai 2020
SIX!! Curran hits a maximum on the final delivery as SRH beat CSK by 7 runs. Brilliant bowling in the final over by Abdul Samad. Youngsters have won SRH this game. CSK suffer 3rd loss in a row.
#CSK — a team relying on experience. #SRH— a team banking on youngsters.
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Single on the 3rd delivery! 16 off 4 deliveries.
Four! Dhoni hits Samad straight down the ground and gets a boundary. 17 off 4 needed.
2! Dhoni looks tired. 21 off 5.
5! Samad bowls the final over and bowls a wide, ball races towards the boundary.
Single on the final ball from Khaleel. CSK reach 137/5 in 19 overs. 28 required in 6 balls.
SIX!! MS Dhoni pulls Khaleel and gets a maximum.
MS Dhoni isn't finding the boundaries and sixes off Khaleel. He's getting doubles only. He's batting on 32 off 30 balls.
Khaleel to bowl the next 5 deliveries.
Bhuvneshwar is limping. He still needs to bowl 5 deliveries in this penultimate over.
After 18 overs, CSK - 121/5.
SIX!! Sam Curran gets a maximum on the very first ball he faced.
Wicket! Jadeja (50) looks to clear Natarajan for another maximum but couldn't connect well. Samad takes a good catch in the deep. CSK - 114/5 in 17.4 overs.
SIX!! Ravindra Jadeja gets maximum and brings up his fifty off 34 deliveries.
After 17 overs, CSK have reached 102/4. The asking rate has climbed to 21 per over.
Bhuvneshwar Kumar bowls the 17th over and Jadeja gets three back-to-back boundaries. 57-run stand between him and Dhoni.
After 16 overs, CSK are 87/4. Not the kind of batting you would expect from Super Kings in the run chase.
Four! MS Dhoni hits a boundary off Rashid towards mid-wicket and completes 4500 runs in the IPL.
Samad concedes just 8 from his third over despite getting hit for a maximum. CSK - 79/4 in 15 overs.
Another tidy over from SRH's point of view, just three conceded by Khaleel. Chennai - 61/4 in 13 overs, this match is also slipping away from their grip it seems.
Just three runs came from Rashid Khan's third over and CSK reach 58/4 after 12 overs. The asking rate has skyrocketed for Super Kings.
50 comes up for CSK in 11th over.
After 10 overs, CSK reach 44/4.
Wicket! Abdul Samad strikes in his first over in IPL as Kedar Jadhav (6) gives a fine catch to David Warner. CSK -42/4 in 8.2 overs.
After 7 overs, CSK are 40 for the loss of 3 wickets. They are in all sorts of trouble in the run chase.
Run Out! Faf du Plessis' (22) knock comes to an end and CSK lose their third wicket for 36/3.
Four, Four! Faf du Plessis hits Natarajan over his head for back-to-back boundaries.
Wicket! T Natarajan clean bowls Ambati Rayudu (8). CSK lose another wicket in the run chase. CSK - 26/2 in 5.1 overs.
Four! Paddle scoop shot from Faf du Plessis off Khaleel and gets a boundary towards fine leg.