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Chennai: A confident Chennai Super Kings (CSK) will aim to maintain their dominance in the IPL when they host bottom-placed Rajasthan Royals at the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium here on Sunday. While the defending champions are sitting at the second spot in the points table with two wins from as many games, Rajasthan have lost both their games and it will be a herculean task for the Ajinkya Rahane-led side to stop Chennai, one of the most successful teams in IPL history. Meanwhile, all eyes will also be on the Chepauk wicket as just 141 runs were scored here in the first game of the season featuring Royal Challengers Bangalore and Chennai. Rajasthan’s batting unit has done an excellent job so far, but their bowlers have let them down. Despite posting a challenging 198/2 against Sunrisers Hyderabad on Friday, the Rajasthan bowlers failed to restrict their opponents as most of them leaked runs. Only Shreyas Gopal had a perfect outing with impressive figures of 3/27 and the team management would expect him to replicate the show on Sunday. Rajasthan batsmen Sanju Samson, Jos Butler and Rahane have performed on expected lines but will have to come out with something special when they face the experienced Chennai bowlers. On the other hand, the Chennai bowlers have done a fair job till now and are likely to give a difficult time to the visiting batsmen on the Chepauk wicket. Veteran Harbhajan Singh, Imran Tahir and all-rounder Dwayne Bravo have impressed in both the matches and will look to keep the momentum going. While Tahir and Bravo have four wickets each from the two games, Ravindra Jadeja and Harbhajan have three each. The Chepauk wicket assisted the spinners in the last game and Chennai skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni is likely to stick with his spin bowling trio of Jadeja, Tahir and Harbhajan. Dhoni would, however, expect his batsmen to fire, who have been average so far. With the likes of experienced Suresh Raina, all-rounder Shane Watson, Kedar Jadhav, Bravo and Dhoni, Chennai have the ability to overhaul any massive target or post a mammoth total. Meanwhile, it will also be interesting to see how the Chepauk wicket behaves on Sunday. Speaking after the opening game, both Dhoni and RCB skipper Virat Kohli had said that they were expecting a better wicket. Overall, the 12th game of this year’s league will be a contest between Chennai’s bowlers and Rajasthan’s batsmen. Squads: Chennai Super Kings: Harbhajan Singh, Shane Watson, Dwayne Bravo, MS Dhoni (c & wk), Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja, Kedar Jadhav, Ambati Rayudu, Imran Tahir, Deepak Chahar, Shardul Thakur, Murali Vijay, Karn Sharma, Faf du Plessis, Sam Billings, Mohit Sharma, Dhruv Shorey, Monu Kumar, Mitchell Santner, Chaitanya Bishnoi, N Jagadeesan, Ruturaj Gaikwad, KM Asif Rajasthan Royals: Ajinkya Rahane (c), Jos Buttler (wk), Sanju Samson, Steven Smith, Ben Stokes, Rahul Tripathi, Krishnappa Gowtham, Jofra Archer, Jaydev Unadkat, Shreyas Gopal, Dhawal Kulkarni, Prashant Chopra, Manan Vohra, Aryaman Birla, Stuart Binny, Shashank Singh, Liam Livingstone, Shubham Ranjane, Ashton Turner, Riyan Parag, Mahipal Lomror, Ish Sodhi, Varun Aaron, Oshane Thomas, Sudhesan Midhun –IANS
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३ वैशाख, काठमाडौँ । २०२१ को आईपिएलमा पहिलो जितको खोजीमा रहेको चेन्नाई सुपर किंग्सले आज पंजब किंग्सको सामना गदैँ छ । चेन्नाई सुपर किंग्स आफ्नो पहिलो खेलमा दिल्ली क्यापिटल्ससँग ७ विकेटले पराजित भएको थियो भने पंजाब किंग्सले आफ्नो पहिलो खेलमा राजस्थान रोयल्सलाई ४ रनले पराजित गरेको थियो । चेन्नाईका फास्ट बलर लुंगी एनगीडी र जेशन बेनरडर्फ आनको खेलमा पनि उपलब्ध रहने छैनन् । यस आईपिएलमा १ खेल मात्र खेलेका दुवै टिमले दोस्रो खेलमै आफ्नो प्लेइङ्ग-११ मा परिवर्तन गर्न सम्भावना निकै कम रहेको छ । यी दुई टिम बिच आईपिएलमा अहिलसम्म २४ खेल भएको छ जसमा चेन्नाईले १५ खेलमा जित हासिल गरेको छ भने पंजाब किंग्सले ९ खेलमा मात्र जित हासिल गरेको छ । चेन्नाई र पंजाब बिचको खेल नेपाली समय अनुसार ७:४५ बाट सुरु हुनेछ । चेन्नाईको सम्भावित प्लेइङ्ग ११ रुतराज गायकवाड, फाफ डु प्लेसिस, सुरेश रैना, अंबाती रायुडू, मोईन अली, एमएस धोनी, रवीन्द्र जडेजा, साम कुरान, ड्वेन ब्रावो, शार्दुल ठाकुर, दीपक चाहर । पंजाबको सम्भावित प्लेइङ्ग ११ केएल राहुल, मयंक अग्रवाल, क्रिस गेल, निकोलस पूरन, दीपक हूडा, शाहरुख खान, झिले रिचर्डसन, मुरुगन अश्विन, रिले मेरीडिथ, मोहम्मद शमी, अर्शदीप सिंह ।