In the scorching heat of Delhi, home team Delhi Capitals will play their last league stage match against Chennai Super Kings at the Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi in the 67th game of the ongoing Indian Premier League 2023 on Saturday. CSK will have to win this match in order to qualify for the playoffs and a loss could put them in jeopardy of losing out their spot in the last four.
We look at the current form, head-to-head, players to look out for, and squads of both teams in our match preview.
Current form for CSK: L W W NR L
CSK suffered a six-wicket loss in their previous match against KKR, which has put them on the back foot. The MS Dhoni-led team will look to come up with a better batting performance as they could only manage 144 runs against KKR.
Current form for DC: W L L W W
Delhi Capitals’ season had already ended after their loss against Punjab Kings but the David Warner-led team was able to take their revenge against Shikhar Dhawan’s team. The CapitalS’ batting finally came to the party as they posted a par score of 213 runs on the board against PBKS.
Head to Head: Matches: 28, Won by CSK: 18, Won by DC: 10.
Chennai Super Kings certainly holds a big advantage in the H2H battle against DC.
Players to look out for: Shivam Dube, Devon Conway, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ajinkya Rahane, Moeen Ali, MS Dhoni, Ravindra Jadeja, Matheesha Pathirana and Deepak Chahar will be the key players for CSK.
David Warner, Mitchell Marsh, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Rilee Rossouw, and Ishant Sharma will be the key players for DC.
DC IPL 2023 SQUAD
Wicketkeepers: Phil Salt (ENG), Abishek Porel.
Batters: Yash Dhull, Sarfaraz Khan, Ripal Patel, Rovman Powell (WI), Prithvi Shaw, David Warner © (AUS), Rilee Rossouw (SA), Manish Pandey.
All-rounders: Lalit Yadav, Mitchell Marsh (AUS), Axar Patel.
Bowlers: Khaleel Ahmed, Aman Hakim Khan, Praveen Dubey, Kuldeep Yadav, Mustafizur Rahman (BAN), Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Lungi Ngidi (SA), Anrich Nortje (SA), Vicky Ostwal, Chetan Sakariya, Mukesh Kumar, Ishant Sharma.
CSK IPL 2023 Squad:
Wicketkeepers: MS Dhoni, Devon Conway (NZ).
Batters: Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ambati Rayudu, Subhranshu Senapati, Shaik Rasheed, Ajinkya Rahane.
All-rounders: Moeen Ali (ENG), Shivam Dube, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Ravindra Jadeja, Dwaine Pretorius (SA), Mitchell Santner (NZ), Ben Stokes (ENG), Ajay Mandal, Bhagath Varma, Nishant Sindhu.
Bowlers: Sisanda Magala, Deepak Chahar, Tushar Deshpande, Mukesh Choudhary, Matheesha Pathirana (SL), Simarjeet Singh, Prashant Solanki, Maheesh Theekshana (SL).
