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Chennai Super Kings will face Lucknow Supergiants today in the 17th season of the Indian Premier League (IPL). The match will be played at MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai starting at 7:30 pm. The toss will take place at 7:00 pm. CSK and LSG will face each other for the second time this season. Last time Lucknow had won by 8 wickets.
Today will be the eighth match of both the teams this season. Both have won 4 out of 7 and lost 3. However, due to better run rate, Chennai is at fourth place and Lucknow at fifth place.
LSG ahead in head to head
4 matches were played in IPL between Chennai and Lucknow. Lucknow won in 2 and Chennai won in one. Whereas a match between the two also remained inconclusive.
Mustafizur top wicket taker from CSK
5-time IPL champion Chennai Super Kings has lost 3 matches this time, the team got 3 out of 4 wins on Chepauk ground only. Today’s match will also be held in Chepauk, so the chances of the team winning are also high. However, the team has suffered 3 defeats against Lucknow, Delhi and Hyderabad and today the team is going to face Lucknow once again.
All-rounder Shivam Dubey has scored the most runs for the team. He has scored 245 runs in 7 matches. Captain Ruturaj Gaikwad is at second place with 241 runs. Mustafizur Rahman and Mathish Pathirana are doing well this season. Mustafizur is the team’s top wicket taker with 11 wickets.
Rahul is LSG’s top scorer, has scored a fifty against Chenni.
Lucknow lost the first match of the season against Rajasthan but after that won 3 consecutive matches. Delhi and Kolkata defeated the team but in the last match the team also made a comeback by defeating Chennai.
Captain KL Rahul is the top run scorer of Lucknow, he has scored 286 runs in 7 matches. Yash Thakur is the top wicket taker of the team with 8 wickets.
pitch report
The pitch of Chennai’s MA Chidambaram Stadium has proven helpful for spinners. It is a bit difficult to bat here. So far 79 IPL matches have been played here. 47 matches were won by the teams batting first and 32 matches were won by chasing teams. The highest team score here is 246/5, which was made by the home team Chennai Super Kings against Rajasthan Royals in 2010.
weather condition
The temperature in Chennai on April 23 is expected to be between 29 degrees to 35 degrees Celsius. There is absolutely no possibility of rain on this day.
Possible playing 11 of both the teams
Chennai Super Kings: Ruturaj Gaikwad (Captain), Rachin Ravindra, Ajinkya Rahane, Moeen Ali, Shivam Dubey, Sameer Rizvi, Ravindra Jadeja, MS Dhoni (wicketkeeper), Shardul Thakur, Mustafizur Rahman and Tushar Deshpande.
Impact Player: Mathish Pathirana.
Lucknow Super Giants: KL Rahul (captain and wicketkeeper), Quinton de Kock, Hooda, Marcus Stoinis, Nicholas Pooran, Ayush Badoni, Krunal Pandya, Ravi Bishnoi, Yash Thakur, Shamar Joseph/Naveen Ul-Haq and Mohsin Khan.
Impact Players: Prerak Mankad, M Siddharth.