2024-03-22 23:22:06
The excitement of IPL is ready to take off from today. The grounds are about to be decorated in Chennai. Maidan House is going to look full. All tickets have been sold. Two living legends of Indian cricket will clash today in the opening match of the 17th season. This is the fight between Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Virat Kohli. This is the battle between defending champions Chennai Super Kings and Royal Challengers Bangalore. The match will start at 8 pm at M. Chidambaram Stadium. It is not that these two players or teams are clashing for the first time in an IPL match, but this time both Dhoni and Virat are not captains. Anyway, this fight is of 10 vs 20.
What is 10 vs 20?
In fact, Chennai Super Kings dominates RCB by double the margin. A total of 31 matches have been played between the two teams in the history of the tournament, in which Dhoni’s Chennai has won 10 and the red jersey RCB has won only 10 matches. Four out of the last five matches have also been in the name of CSK. One match did not result. CSK has won most of the matches in its IPL history against RCB. His winning percentage against RCB is 67.74. Chennai team has also defeated Mumbai Indians 20 times.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni will not captain CSK in IPL 2024
CSK’s stake is strong
Chennai and Bengaluru have clashed eight times at the M. Chidambaram Stadium, out of which Chennai has won seven times while Bengaluru has won only one match. As soon as Virat Kohli scores 15 runs in today’s match, he will score 1000 runs against CSK. After Delhi Capitals, Chennai will be the second team against which Virat will score thousand runs.
pitch and weather
M. Chidambaram’s pitch is a bit slow on which batting is not easy. Spinners like the pitch here. The team winning the toss will prefer to bat first. The sky will be clear. The maximum day temperature is expected to reach 31 degrees. After sunset the weather will be suitable for the match.
Probable playing XI of Royal Challengers Bangalore: Cameron Green, Faf du Plessis (captain), Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar, Glenn Maxwell, Dinesh Karthik (wicketkeeper), Mahipal Lomror, Suyyash Prabhudesai, Mohammed Siraj, Lockie Ferguson, Karn Sharma.
Potential Impact Players: Yash Dayal, Akash Deep, Siddharth Kaul, Swapnil Singh
Chennai Super Kings: Ruturaj Gaekwad (captain), Rachin Ravindra, Daryl Mitchell, Ajinkya Rahane, Shivam Dubey, Ravindra Jadeja, MS Dhoni (wicketkeeper), Moeen Ali, Shardul Thakur, Mahish Tikshan, Tushar Deshpande
Potential Impact Players: Deepak Chahar, Sameer Rizvi, Avnish Rao Araveli, Sheikh Rashid