IPL 2020, CSK vs MI LIVE: The season opener was won by Chennai Super Kings this year. (BCCI/IPL)IPL 2020, CSK vs MI Team Predicted Playing 11 for Today Match LIVE Updates: Two teams that met in the Indian Premier League (IPL 2020) opener on September 19 are all set to face each other again in the 41st match of the season. A clear distinction has been witnessed in their performance so far. Mumbai Indians [MI full squad] are currently at number three after Delhi and RCB on the top two, while Dhoni’s men [CSK full squad] are at the bottom of the points tally.
Mumbai are playing their first game after their twin Super Overs-thriller against Kings XI Punjab (KXIP). While CSK too are coming into this game on the back of a loss against Rajasthan Royals (RR). But unlike MI, they are currently on the eighth spot in the points table, having a win-loss ratio of 3-7.
So the Rohit Sharma’s team will go to the middle with an aim of consolidating their position for the playoffs, Dhoni’s yellow army will be eager to keep their hopes of making it to the playoffs alive and will be keen to secure their second win against MI in the ongoing season.
Probable XIs:
CSK: Sam Curran, Faf du Plessis, Shane Watson/Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ambati Rayudu, Kedar Jadhav/N Jagadeesan, MS Dhoni, Ravindra Jadeja, Deepak Chahar, Shardul Thakur, Piyush Chawla/Imran Tahir, Josh Hazlewood
MI: Rohit Sharma, Quinton de Kock, Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan, Kieron Pollard, Hardik Pandya, Krunal Pandya, Nathan Coulter-Nile/James Pattinson, Rahul Chahar, Trent Boult, Jasprit Bumrah
All-rounder Vijay Shankar says he treated the match against Rajasthan Royals as a 'do-or-die game' as his good show with both bat and ball may have saved his place in Sunrisers Hyderabad's playing XI. Manish Pandey (83) and Shankar (52) stitched an unbroken 140-run partnership to help SRH chase down RR's 154 for six on Thursday.
The comfortable eight-wicket win lifted the team to the fifth spot in the eight-team competition with eight points from 10 games. "If you ask personally it was a do-or-die game for me. That's how I saw this game. I didn't have the best of time with the bat, so I had to perform in this game and fortunately or unfortunately, we lost early wickets which made the team to send me up the order," Shankar said at the post match press conference.
MS Dhoni requires 6 catches to complete 100 IPL catches for CSK.
Ambati Rayudu and Faf du Plessis need 2 and 1 fours respectively to complete 300 and 200 IPL fours.
Jasprit Bumrah is 3 wickets from completing 100 IPL wickets.
Kieron Pollard needs 37 runs to complete 3000 IPL runs.
Chennai Super Kings' Faf du Plessis has been in top five scorers so far with 375 runs to his name in the IPL but his performance could not bear fruits for the team. He has scored four fifties. The last CSK faced MI, Faf had scored an unbeaten half-century and the right-hander will be looking to have another fine outing with the bat against MI.
Another trusted name is Ravindra Jadeja who scored an unbeaten 35 in CSK’s game against RR and was his side’s leading run-getter. In the game before that, the left-hander had tonked 33* from 13 balls against Delhi Capitals in Sharjah. CSK will expect him to continue his batting form.
Hello and welcome to the live blog on the CSK vs MI match buildup. It's the 41st game of the season and both the teams are facing each other second time in the tournament today.
Their campaign turning from bad to worse, Chennai Super Kings are expected to try out a few of their younger players when they take on defending champions Mumbai today. Though skipper M S Dhoni conceded after the loss against Rajasthan Royals that the season might be already over them, CSK can still get to 14 points if they win their remaining four games, giving them an outside chance of making the play-offs.
As head coach Stephen Fleming pointed out, the ageing squad may have finally “run out of juice” after doing well over the past two seasons when they won in 2018 and reached the final the following year.