IPL 37th Match: Chennai Super Kings v Rajasthan Royals

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Chennai Super Kings v Rajasthan Royals at Kimberley

Chennai: (probable) 1 S Badrinath/M Vijay/Parthiv Patel, 2 Matthew Hayden, 3 Suresh Raina, 4 MS Dhoni (capt. & wk), 5 Albie Morkel, 6 Jacob Oram/George Bailey, 7 Shadab Jakati, 8 Sudeep Tyagi, 9 L Balaji, 10 Manpreet Gony/Joginder Sharma/extra batsman, 11 Muttiah Muralitharan.

Rajasthan: (probable) 1 Graeme Smith, 2 Naman Ojha (wk), 3 Lee Carseldine, 4 Yusuf Pathan, 5 Ravindra Jadeja, 6 Niraj Patel, 7 Abhishek Raut, 8 Shane Warne (capt.), 9 Dimitri Mascarenhas/Morne Morkel, 10 Amit Singh, 11 Munaf Patel.

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[naresh091]

In case if we go with playing Bailey in place of Oram,we can make Bailey open and bring in Arun Karthik in place of Vijay.
But from what Fleming has said yesterday,Oram is fit and the lineup will be same as the one that played against the Deccan Chargers.
We'll win this one hopefully.Naman Ojha and Amit Singh are the key players we ought to look out for.Im not sure if Amit Singh will play today though.

 

[vickyrox]

Morkel should play instead of Maschernas
otherwise the team is very good
This should be a good match with both the teams eying for the second spot with delhii 1st

Should go down to the wire

 

[Cricketman]

It will be an absolute cracker. The two absolute best teams I think, and finally things have turned around for both of them.

Cmon CHENNAI!

 

[SciD]

I dont like both teams but want Chennai to loose as we have game against them which they will win.

 

[naresh091]

Aah Naman Ojha cleaned up.Albie Morkel once again gives us a rocking start!

 

[SciD]

Chennai are like Aussies of IPL. :

 

[Precambrian]

Chennai are like Aussies of IPL. :

Who can't win a final?

Superb war of words initially between the two captains. Shane Warne started it by saying CSK are not good chasers of big totals. And Dhoni responded by saying Rajasthan has to set a big total first.

 

[SciD]

Looks like Yousuf will need to score big one today. Jakati vs Yousuf will be mouth watering.

 

[Gurjot95]

Rajasthan Have to win this match to set their strong position for semis.

Actually CSK have to loose this match so other teams can go for semis

 

[gudduthemaster]

i dont think that RR will win this one.
no Kamran Khan and other.and ojha is gone is first over

 

[SciD]

It would be better if both get 1 point. It will make table something meaningful. 11 points makes it wierd.

 

[leftarmlegspin]

Chennai's fielding is terrible at times. Only Kolkata are worse.

 

[LongLegs?]

Chennai's fielding is terrible at times. Only Kolkata are worse.

They dropped Gony for the match thankfully, otherwise it would've been way worse. Overrated bowler too - has potential, but no brains whatsoever. His first IPL season was good, because he took wickets - his economy rate wasn't great. This season has been wicketless, but the same economy rate, therefore you'd say he's been unsuccessful.

Hoping M Vijay hits a good knock today.

 

[SciD]

CSK have this one in bag now.