Chennai Super kings is back at the M. A. Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai to play their last home game for the season. The team is to face off against Rajasthan Royals for IPL 2024’s match number 61.Find out why Deepak Chahar is missing from today’s IPL 2024 clash against RR.
CSK is currently positioned at the 4th spot on the points table, with 12 points collected in as many games. The team is under pressure to win today’s match against RR because of their dramatic loss in CSKvsGT
RR on the other hand, is breezing through the tournament, with 16 points under their belt and 2nd spot on the table. RR is second only to Kolkata Knight Riders, who now have 18 points thanks to their victory against MI yesterday.Â
Deepak Chahar not included in CSK playing XI
With this, IPL 2024 clash goes by where Deepak Chahar is not playing for CSK. Chahar hasn’t had a great start to his IPL 2024 campaign and was ruled out of the RR clash.
In an earlier match, Skipper and CSK captain Ruturaj Gaikwad had mentioned that Chahar had a niggle and hence was replaced by Shardul Thakur. Chahar has taken four wickets in the tournament so far but hasn’t looked in the rhythm that he and his side would have desired.
Chahar is recovering from a hamstring injury along with CSK’s Matheesha Pathirana, while Mustafizur Rahman is not playing as he had to go back to his country.
Here are the playing XI for CSK
The Playing XI for CSK are Rachin Ravindra, Ruturaj Gaikwad(c), Daryl Mitchell, Moeen Ali, Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, MS Dhoni(w), Shardul Thakur, Tushar Deshpande, Simarjeet Singh, Maheesh Theekshana.
Apart from these, the impact substitutes for today’s match are: Ajinkya Rahane, Sameer Rizvi, Prashant Solanki, Ajay Mandal and Mukesh Choudhary
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