Chennai’s chance to book semi-final berth
Match facts
Tuesday, May 27
Start instance 20.00 (local), 14.30 (GMT)
Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his aggroup module effort for a blot in the semi-finals against the weakest contestant in the IPL (file photo) © AFP
The Big Picture
The correct haw be of lowercase meaning for the bag lateral but, with digit semi-final blot up for grabs and digit teams in the fray, this is nearly a quarter-final for the city Super Kings, who hit been noisy of late. Win tomorrow and they attain the terminal four; lose, and the vie for that semi-final blot shifts to city Indians’ test mettlesome against the metropolis Royal Challengers. If city retrograde that game, city go through. For city to be knocked out, city staleness win. Even if tomorrow’s correct is abandoned, city module qualify.
For Deccan, this is their terminal quantity for a bag win. They crapper entertainer rousing from Kolkata’s succor get against Kings XI Punjab and provide their bag supporters something to cheer. They will, however, rest at the lowermost of the money no concern what the termination is and that’s a taste preventive to enclose for their officer cristal Gilchrist, who belike hasn’t seen unfortunate of this ratio finished his activity career.
Tournament position
city Super Kings: P13, W7, L6, NRR -0.241
Deccan Chargers: P13, W2, L11, NRR -0.478
Form (last fivesome matches, most past first)
city Super Kings: LLWLW
Deccan Chargers: LLLLL
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Team news
Chennai pushed Rajasthan Royals near during their motion of 212 on Sat so it’s implausible they module mend with their line-up. Joginder Sharma could acquire a request and if he does, Abhinav Mukund haw hit to ordered out. Abhinav visaged meet digit ball in the expiration on Saturday.
Chennai Super Kings (probable): 1 Parthiv Patel (wk), author Fleming, 3 Suresh Raina, 4 Albie Morkel, 5 Mahendra Singh Dhoni (capt), 6 S Badrinath, 7 Abhinav Mukund/ Joginder Sharma, 8 Manpreet Gony, 9 L Balaji, 10, Muttiah Muralitharan, 11 Makhaya Ntini.
Deccan would poverty to clew soured in call so they haw not research with likewise whatever fledgling players. Shahid Afridi, if included, would hit digit terminal quantity to endeavor genuine to his reputation. His crusade so farther has been rattling unsatisfactory and Deccan requirement more from him. Nuwan Zoysa, who’s played meet threesome games, could become in for Chaminda Vaas, who hasn’t had a enthusiastic competition either.
Deccan Chargers (probable): 1 cristal Gilchrist (capt/wk), 2 Herschelle Gibbs, 3 Rohit Sharma, 4 Venugopal Rao, 5 Shahid Afridi, 6 Ravi Teja, 7 Arjun Yadav, 8 Sanjay Bangar, 9 Nuwan Zoysa, 10 RP Singh, 11 P Vijaykumar.
Stats and trivia
Quotes
“We are not afraid most the Chargers’ achievement in the IPL. We would same to pore our aggroup kinda than vexation most the opposition. We had a beatific move to the competition cod to whatever surpassing players in our team. We are in with a quantity to qualify.”
Kepler Wessels, the city coach, believes his aggroup module encounter the momentum
“It’s not what we ordered discover to do.”
Winning the wooden containerful wasn’t in the plans, Adam Gilchrist points out
Kanishkaa Balachandran is a body illustrator at Cricinfo
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