IPL 2018, CSK vs RR: Ajinkya Rahane won the toss and chose to bowl first

Ajinkya Rahane wins the toss and chose to bowl first 

Chennai Super Kings are going to clash with Rajasthan after a gap of 4 days. Chennai Super Kings had their last encounter with Kings XI Punjab that it lost despite a bang on-show by CSK Skipper MS Dhoni. Notably, Dhoni was awarded the man of the match award despite CSK losing the match. Chris Gayle, like in the match played yesterday, had blasted CSK in their last match that led to Punjab setting challenging and resulting in a difficult total for the mighty CSK.

Both the teams have not yet put up their best performances but have managed to come up with individual blitz performers. The performances of Chris Gayle, KL Rahul, Sanju Samson verify this fact. Chennai Super Kings have managed to perform decently well even without Suresh Raina in their squad.

Chennai Super Kings

MS Dhoni (C) (W), KM Asif Sam Billings Chaitanya Bishnoi Dwayne Bravo Deepak Chahar Faf du Plessis Harbhajan Singh Imran Tahir Ravindra Jadeja Kedar Jadhav Narayan Jagadeesan Kshitiz Sharma Monu Kumar Lungi Ngidi Suresh Raina Ambati Rayudu Mitchell Santner Kanishk Seth Karn Sharma Dhruv Shorey Shardul Thakur Murali Vijay Shane Watson David Willey Mark Wood.

Rajasthan Royals

Ajinkya Rahane (C), Ankit Sharma Anureet Singh Jofra Archer Stuart Binny Aryaman Birla Jos Buttler (W) Dushmantha Chameera Prashant Chopra Shreyas Gopal Krishnappa Gowtham Heinrich Klaasen Dhawal Kulkarni Ben Laughlin Mahipal Lomror Sudhesan Midhun Sanju Samson Jatin Saxena D'Arcy Short Ish Sodhi Ben Stokes Rahul Tripathi Jaydev Unadkat.