Gujarat Titans will lock horns against defending champions Chennai Super Kings at the Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad in the 59th match of the ongoing Indian Premier League 2024 on Friday. When these two teams met earlier in the season, Chennai Super Kings won comprehensively by 63 runs at Chepauk after Shivam Dube smashed a quickfire fifty.
We take a look at the head-to-head battle, players to watch out for, and Squads of both teams in our match preview.
Chennai Super Kings: W L W L L
CSK came up with an impressive bowling show in the previous match as they restricted PBKS to 139 despite putting 167 runs on the board. Matheesha Pathirana has been ruled out, which is a big blow. Furthermore, MS Dhoni is playing with a muscle tear.
Gujarat Titans: L L L W L
Gujarat Titans have managed a solitary win in their last five matches as they have failed to bring their best. GT hasn’t been consistent enough with the bat whereas their bowling has looked flat so far.
Head to Head: Matches: 6, Won by CSK: 3, Won by GT: 3.
Players to watch out for: Shubman Gill, David Miller, Sai Sudharsan, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Mohit Sharma, Sai Kishore, and Spencer Johnson will hold the key for GT.
MS Dhoni, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ajinkya Rahane, Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, and Maheesh Theekshana will be the crucial players for CSK.
Gujarat Titans Final Squad:
Shubman Gill (C), David Miller, Matthew Wade, Wriddhiman Saha, Kane Williamson, Abhinav Manohar, Sai Sudharsan, Darshan Nalkande, Vijay Shankar, Jayant Yadav, Rahul Tewatia, Mohammed Shami, Noor Ahmed, R Sai Kishore, Rashid Khan, Joshua Little, Mohit Sharma, Azmatullah Omarzai, Umesh Yadav, Shahrukh Khan, Sushant Mishra, Kartik Tyagi, Manav Suthar, Spencer Johnson, Robin Minz.
CSK squad for IPL 2024:
MS Dhoni (c), Moeen Ali, Deepak Chahar, Devon Conway, Tushar Deshpande, Shivam Dube, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Ravindra Jadeja, Ajay Mandal, Mukesh Choudhary, Matheesha Pathirana, Ajinkya Rahane, Shaik Rasheed, Mitchell Santner, Simarjeet Singh, Nishant Sindhu, Prashant Solanki, Maheesh Theekshana, Rachin Ravindra, Shardul Thakur, Daryl Mitchell, Sameer Rizvi, Mustafizur Rahman, Avanish Rao Aravelly.
