It would be a battle of Dhoni’s calm and composed presence on the field against Virat’s fiery brand of cricket embodied by the RCB, which makes it truly a clash of ‘ice and fire’. Dhoni boasts of a fine record against RCB, both as a leader and batter. RCB have only won once against CSK at Chepauk Stadium, back in 2008 during the inaugural IPL. Chepauk is the home ground of CSK.
During CSK’s last IPL match against RCB, Dhoni played a quickfire cameo of 25 in 13 balls, with three fours and a six. However, his knock could not help as RCB secured a 27-run win to knock CSK out of the IPL on the basis of net-run-rate and secured a final four berth.
In 70 matches at Chepauk, Dhoni has made 1,469 runs at an average of 41.97 and a strike rate of over 145, with seven fifties and best score of 75*.
Willl there be some Dhoni fireworks at Chepauk? His and CSK fans will be waiting.
Squads:
Chennai Super Kings Squad: Rachin Ravindra, Ruturaj Gaikwad(c), Rahul Tripathi, Deepak Hooda, Shivam Dube, Sam Curran, Ravindra Jadeja, MS Dhoni(w), Ravichandran Ashwin, Noor Ahmad, Nathan Ellis, Khaleel Ahmed, Vijay Shankar, Jamie Overton, Shreyas Gopal, Devon Conway, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Mukesh Choudhary, Anshul Kamboj, Matheesha Pathirana, Gurjapneet Singh, Shaik Rasheed, Ramakrishna Ghosh, Andre Siddarth C, Vansh Bedi
