It will be Blockbuster Friday with RCB VS CSK in Chepauk IPL 2024 Opener
Match 1: RCB Vs CSK, IPL 2024
Date Friday, March 22nd, 2024
Time 8:00 pm
Venue MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai
Where to Watch: Live on Star Sports and Digital Streaming on Jio Cinema.
It’s going to be the blockbuster start to IPL Season with defending champion Chennai Super Kings (CSK) taking on 2009 and 2016 runners up Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB). Both team looks strong on paper where whereas CSK has New Zealand’s World Cup heroes Rachin Ravindra and Daryl Mitchell, along with Ruturaj Gaikwad who has just been announced as the Captain of CSK for the 2024 IPL Season. Since Devon Conway has been out injured it is most likely Ravindra will be opening with Ruturaj. CSK has also got Sameer Rizvi, the young UP batsman who enthralled everyone in the UP T20 league, and the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy with his batting.
In the bowling department with Deepak Chahar, they also got back Shardul Thakur who was bought during the December auction. They also took Mustafizur as a backup for Sri Lanka fast bowler Matheesha Pathirana.
Seeing the Chepauk pitch over the years CSK squad will consists of number of strikers of the spins, spinners plus with Ravindra Jadeja, Maheesh Theeskana as the spin duos they would have lethal attack at their foretess in Chepuak.
RCB will be relying more on their Star Batsman:
With Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis, Maxwell, Rajat Patidhar and new signing Cameron Green RCB has the most destructive batting line-up as on paper. With the best batsman in the world ‘King Kohli’ who has been the highest run-getter in IPL history with more than 7 thousand under his kitty with a Strike rate of almost 135, he will be RCB over the top this year as well. Faf and Rajat provide him the support in the top order where as Maxwell comes as the destroyer in the middle order. It will be interesting to see where Cameron Green would fit in the RCB famed batting lineup. They also have a good set of fast bowlers with Siraj and Akashdeep as Indian fast bowlers along with Yash Dayal who they bought during this December auction. Wicket-keeping duties will be borne by our very own Dinesh Karthik who probably might be playing his last IPL.
So, Folks get ready for Blockbuster Friday evening when both teams get squared to start the 2024 IPL season.
CSK Likely XI: Ruturaj Gaikwad (Captain), Rachin Ravindra, Ajinkya Rahane, Daryl Mitchell, Ravindra Jadeja, MS Dhoni (WK),Mitchell Santner, Deepak Chahar, Shardul Thakur, Mahessh Theeskana, Matheesha Pathirana, Shivan Dube (Impact Player)
RCB Likely XI: Faf du Plessis (c),Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar, Glenn Maxwell,Dinesh Karthik, Mahipal Lomror, Suyash Prabhudessa, Mohammed Siraj, Lockie Ferguson, Mayank Dagar, Akash Deep, Cameron Green (Impact Player
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