IPL 2021: Match Preview, Chennai Super Kings vs Punjab Kings

Chennai Super Kings would be taking on Punjab Kings at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai on Friday in the 8th match of IPL 2021. Chennai Super Kings will be looking forward to winning their 1st match of the tournament.

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Match Number: 8th match of IPL 2021.

Match Between: Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and Punjab Kings(PK).

Venue: Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai.

Timing: Friday, 16th April 2021, 7:30 PM IST.

Squads:

Chennai Super Kings: Ruturaj Gaikwad, Faf du Plessis, Moeen Ali, Suresh Raina, Ambati Rayudu, MS Dhoni(wk/c), Ravindra Jadeja, Sam Curran, Dwayne Bravo, Shardul Thakur, Deepak Chahar, Robin Uthappa, Cheteshwar Pujara, Karn Sharma, Imran Tahir, Krishnappa Gowtham, Mitchell Santner, Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore, Hari Nishanth, N Jagadeesan, KM Asif, Harishankar Reddy, Bhagath Varma.

Punjab Kings: KL Rahul(wk/c), Mayank Agarwal, Chris Gayle, Deepak Hooda, Nicholas Pooran, Shahrukh Khan, Jhye Richardson, Murugan Ashwin, Riley Meredith, Mohammed Shami, Arshdeep Singh, Moises Henriques, Mandeep Singh, Chris Jordan, Dawid Malan, Jalaj Saxena, Sarfaraz Khan, Fabian Allen, Saurabh Kumar, Ishan Porel, Ravi Bishnoi, Utkarsh Singh, Darshan Nalkande, Prabhsimran Singh, Harpreet Brar.

Team News:

Chennai Super Kings: Jason Behrendorff and Lungi Ngidi won't be playing this match. Faf du Plessis has an added advantage to score more runs in this match as he has scored at a strike rate of 200 against Mohammad Shami in IPL.

Probable XI: Ruturaj Gaikwad/Robin Uthappa, Faf du Plessis, Moeen Ali, Suresh Raina, Ambati Rayudu, MS Dhoni (wk/c), Ravindra Jadeja, Sam Curran, Dwayne Bravo, Shardul Thakur, Deepak Chahar.

Punjab Kings: Punjab Kings have all the players available for selection in this match. KL Rahul has always won the battle against Deepak Chahar as Chahar has not dismissed KL Rahul in any season of the IPL.

Probable XI: KL Rahul (wk/c), Mayank Agarwal, Chris Gayle, Deepak Hooda, Nicholas Pooran, Shahrukh Khan, Jhye Richardson, Murugan Ashwin, Riley Meredith, Mohammed Shami, Arshdeep Singh.

Some Facts:

1. Chennai Super Kings have won 14 matches out of 23 head-to-head encounters against Punjab Kings. CSK also won both the matches against Punjab Kings in the last year's IPL.

2. Suresh Raina has scored 814 runs at a strike rate of 151.97 against Punjab Kings in the IPL.