IPL 2020, CSK vs RR highlights: Buttler's fifty takes RR to crucial victory

Steve Smith's RR outplayed MS Dhoni's CSK to clinch crucial 2 points to stay in the playoffs contention

7:03 PM

Couple of changes in CSK playing 11

Hazlewood and Chawla in

7:02 PM

Dhoni on Bravo's injury

He won't be available for the next few games

7:01 PM

Toss Alert: CSK won the toss, opt to bat

6:52 PM

Toss update: Toss in a few minutes, stay tuned

6:43 PM

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6:11 PM

Some more milestones await MS Dhoni

MS Dhoni will become the first player to feature in 200 IPL games

Dhoni needs one dismissal to complete 150 IPL dismissals

Dhoni needs 6 runs to complete 4000 IPL runs for CSK

5:58 PM

CSK vs RR playing 11 prediction

Chennai Super Kings

 

MS Dhoni (C, WK), Ruturaj Gaikwad, Shane Watson, Faf du Plessis, Ambati Rayudu, Ravindra Jadeja, Sam Curran, Piyush Chawla, Deepak Chahar, Lungi Ngidi, Shardul Thakur.

 

Rajasthan Royals

 

Ben Stokes, Sanju Samson (Wk), Robin Uthappa, Steve Smith, Jos Buttler, Shreyas Gopal, Rahul Tewatia, Jofra Archer, Riyan Parag, Jaydev Unadkat, Kartik Tyagi.

5:56 PM

CSK vs RR Pitch report

 

 

The pitch at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium is likely to favour bowlers in early stages of the match with spinners coming into the picture in the middle overs.

 

The pitch might get slower as the match progresses and 160-170 seems like a good total considering the last two matches at the venue.

5:49 PM

CSK vs RR head to head

 

 

Total matches: 22

 

CSK won: 14

 

RR won: 8

 

No result: 0

5:44 PM

CSK vs RR Squads

 

 

Chennai Super Kings: M S Dhoni (captain, wk), M Vijay, Ambati Rayudu, Faf du Plessis, Shane Watson, Kedar Jadhav, Dwayne Bravo, Ravindra Jadeja, Lungi Ngidi, Deepak Chahar, Piyush Chawla, Imran Tahir, Mitchell Santner, Josh Hazlewood, Shardul Thakur, Sam Curran, N Jagadeesan, K M Asif, Monu Kumar, R Sai Kishore, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Karn Sharma.

 

Rajasthan Royals: Steve Smith (captain), Jos Buttler, Robin Uthappa, Sanju Samson, Ben Stokes, Jofra Archer, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Manan Vohra, Kartik Tyagi, Akash Singh, Oshane Thomas, Andrew Tye, David Miller, Tom Curran, Aniruddha Joshi, Shreyas Gopal, Riyan Parag, Varun Aaron, Shashank Singh, Anuj Rawat, Mahipal Lomror, Mayank Markande.

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Preview

Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and Rajasthan Royals (RR) have a chance to jump out of the bottom three of the IPL table when they face each other at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium on Monday. Both sides are on six points and CSK are one place above RR on sixth because of their superior net run rate.

CSK's top order of Faf du Plessis, Shane Watson and Ambati Rayudu showed they have regained their touch in recent matches, while Ravindra Jadeja was also quite handy with the bat in their last game against the Delhi Capitals (DC).

However, the form of captain MS Dhoni could be a cause of concern. The veteran wicketkeeper batsman has not been able match up to the lofty standards he has set over the years with the bat this season. With 3,994 runs from 169 games, Dhoni is also the leading run-scorer for his side.

The injury of Dwayne Bravo, whose bowling CSK are dependent upon in the death overs will be a cause for concern.

The bowlers did well in the initial overs against DC but failed to click recurrently, leading to Shikhar Dhawan's maiden IPL ton almost single-handedly snatching the game away from them.

On the other hand, RR too face similar issues. Their batsmen did well in the last game against Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB), particularly Steve Smith and Robin Uthappa, who was promoted to the top of the order for that match.

The RR think-tank will, however, hope that Ben Stokes and the out-of-form Sanju Samson, also the highest run-getter for RR with 1,768 runs, will reverse their run of low scores as the league stage enters its home stretch.