If the Chennai Super Kings, led by Mahendra Singh Dhoni, have to keep their hopes alive in the Indian Premier League (IPL), they will have to make a strong comeback from the match against Sunrisers Hyderabad here on Tuesday. Three-time champions and last-time runners-up Chennai have lost five of the seven matches so far and are now desperate to return to victory. He is currently seventh in the eight-team table. This will be the second time in the current season, when Chennai and Hyderabad teams will face each other, before Dhoni's team lost to Sunrisers by seven runs in the last match.
Chennai superkings Dhoni Sena has been considered the best team chasing a target in IPL history, but his batsmen have failed so far this year, they got all five chasing the target. Shane Watson and Faf Duplessis performed well in the top order, but the middle order will now have to play better. After the relentless performance of Kedar Jadhav, Chennai had bowled him out in the last match and replaced him with Narayan Jagadishan, who scored 33 off 28 balls and combined with Ambati Rayudu (42 off 40 balls) to set up the innings. But after these two were out, Chennai's batting was shattered. Sam Karan, Ravindra Jadeja, and Dwayne Bravo also failed to beat. Dhoni too has not been able to score as fast as expected. The captain also later admitted that the batsmen would have to perform better if they were to win the match further. Deepak Chahar and Jadeja have been impressive in bowling so far. Karan, Shardul Thakur, and Karn Sharma need to perform better.
Sunrisers Hyderabad The Orange Army's position is also not very good, having won three out of seven matches and placed fifth in the table. The five-wicket defeat against Rajasthan Royals on Sunday would have hurt the team as they kept good control of the match at one time after scoring 158 for four. Batting is not a concern for Sunrisers as Johnny Bairstow, captain David Warner, Manish Pandey, and Kane Williamson are consistently scoring well and are ready to take responsibility. Bowling has emerged as its weak side. Sunrisers' bowling has weakened after losing pace bowler Bhuvneshwar Kumar and all-rounder, Mitchell Marsh. Although leg-spinner Rashid Khan and yorker specialist T Natarajan have bowled well for him, Sandeep Sharma, Khalil Ahmed, and youngster Abhishek Sharma have proved to be a weak link in his bowling unit.
Both teams are Chennai Super Kings: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (captain), Murali Vijay, Ambati Rayudu, Faf Duplessis, Shane Watson, Kedar Jadhav, Dwayne Bravo, Ravindra Jadeja, Lungi Ngidi, Deepak Chahar, Piyush Chawla, Imran Tahir, Mitchell Sentner, Josh Hazlewood, Shardul Thakur, Sam Karan, N Jagadishan, KM Asif, Monu Kumar, R Sai Kishore, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Karn Sharma.
Sunrisers Hyderabad: David Warner (Captain), Johnny Bairstow, Kane Williamson, Manish Pandey, Srivats Goswami, Virat Singh, Priyam Garg, Wriddhiman Saha, Abdul Samad, Vijay Shankar, Mohammad Nabi, Rashid Khan, Jason Holder, Abhishek Sharma, B Sandeep Sharma, Sanjay Yadav, Fabian Allen, Prithvi Raj Yara, Khalil Ahmed, Sandeep Sharma, Shahbaz Nadeem, Siddharth Kaul, Billy Stanlake, T Natarajan, Basil Thampi.
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