Before the IPL season began, Ruturaj Gaikwad was declared the new captain of CSK. The way majority of Chennai responded when Dhoni gave Gaikwad the captaincy was reflected in Gill’s attitude during the captains’ meeting. The two least experienced Indian captains in the IPL, Gill and Gaikwad, will now play each other on Tuesday at Chepauk.
MS Dhoni and Hardik Pandya were leading the Gujarat Titans and Chennai Super Kings, respectively, in a strange three-day rain-soaked IPL 2023 final. After Hardik returned to the Mumbai Indians in what is possibly the largest player trade in IPL history, Shubman Gill assumed leadership of the Titans.
With their captaincy, Gill and Gaikwad have already made headlines. Spencer Johnson, the Titans’ rookie, praised Gill’s leadership after the team narrowly defeated the Mumbai Indians in Ahmedabad on Sunday. He claimed that the captain had sat next to him on the bus to assist ease his anxiety before the match.
In his debut IPL match as captain, Gaikwad dominated fielding changes; one such change, which required moving extra-cover to sweeper cover, gave CSK their first wicket.
The match between the Chennai boys and the Chennai Super Kings is another interesting plotline in this game. Up to five Tamil Nadu players—Sai Sudharsan, Sai Kishore, Vijay Shankar, Shahrukh Khan, and Sandeep Warrier—are on the Titans squad. Kishore, Vijay, and Sudharsan are the five players who will fit into the Titans’ XI or XII (counting for the Impact Player).
Vijay, Kishore, and Sudharsan have all participated in CSK’s junior super league, or Junior Super Kings. Shahrukh also worked as a ball boy for IPL matches in Chepauk in the past. On the other hand, CSK’s starting lineup does not include a single local player.
Venue : M.A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai
CSK Probable XI : Rachin Ravindra, Ruturaj Gaikwad (c), Ajinkya Rahane, Daryl Mitchell, Sameer Rizvi, Ravindra Jadeja, MS Dhoni, Deepak Chahar, Tushar Deshpande, Maheesh Theekshana, Mustafizur Rahman.
GT Probable XI : Shubman Gill (c), Wriddhiman Saha, Sai Sudharsan, Azmatullah Omarzai, Vijay Shankar, David Miller, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, R Sai Kishore, Umesh Yadav, Spencer Johnson.
