The mega event of India’s sports calendar the IPL is bringing something new into action this year. With the 10 team action specters will see the home season after two years. Check CKS vs KKR 1st Match Preview
Ravindra Jadeja, Mayank Agrawal, Hardik Pandya, Duplessis will lead their teams for the first time. The pool of Indian players is further increased, so we will see more youngsters and raw talent on our Indian soil this year.
The opening of the tournament is going with the last year’s finalist CSK vs KKR. Both teams will in action today at historic Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.
CSK is undoubtedly the most consistent and successful franchise in the history of IPL. A big change has happened in the Chennai camp just two days before the match.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who has been captaining the team for 14 years, will no longer be the captain. Dhoni has handed over the captaincy to all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja in his place.
This will be the first time after 26 April 2019 that the Chennai team will take the field without Dhoni’s captaincy. In the two matches of the 2019 season, Dhoni was not fit, so Suresh Raina captained.
The franchise has retained most of their players who were part of their success last year. Their strategy of going with experience remained the same. They again invested the money in multi-skilled players as they are known.
CSK Full Squad
Ravindra Jadeja(Captain), MS Dhoni, Rituraj Gaikwad, Moeen Ali, Deepak Chahar, Robin Uthappa, Ambati Rayudu, Deven Conway, Subhranshu Senapati, KM Asif, Tushar Deshpande, Maheesh Theekshana, Simarjeet Singh, Adam Milne, Mukesh Choudhary, Dwayne Bravo, Shivam Dube, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Dwaine Pretorius, Mitchell Santner, Prashant Solanki, N Jagadeesan, Hari Nishaanth, Chris Jordan, K Bhagath Verma.
First Choice XI
Rituraj Gaikwad, Deven Conway, Robin Uthappa, Ambati Rayudu, Shivam Dube, MS Dhoni (WK), Ravindra Jadeja(C), Dwayne Bravo, Chris Jordan, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Adam Milne.
While the last year’s runner-up KKR also looking very solid for the upcoming session 2022. They got a new captain in name of Shreyas Iyer who is coming with good form. They have a lot of youngsters who performing well also at the international level.
The unavailability of Australian stars Pat Cummins and Aron Finch is a big problem for Knights. Both the players were part of the 2021 T20 WC winning team.
KKR Full Squad
Andre Russell, Varun Chakravarthy, Venkatesh Iyer, Sunil Narine, Shreyas Iyer(C), Pat Cummins, Nitish Rana, Shivam Mavi, Sheldon Jackson, Ajinkya Rahane, Rinku Singh, Anukul Roy, Rasikh Dar, Baba Indrajith, Chamika Karunaratne, Abhijeet Tomar, Pratham Singh, Ashok Sharma, Sam Billings, Aaron Finch, Tim Southee, Ramesh Kumar, Mohammad Nabi, Umesh Yadav, Aman Khan.
First Choice XI
Venkatesh Iyer, Nitish Rana, Shreyas Iyer(C), Sam Billings (WK), Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Pat Cummins, Umesh Yadav, Shivam Mavi, Varun Chakravarthy.
Interesting Fact – Chennai Super Kings had a very good season at Wankhede. They had won 4 of the 5 matches while Kolkata Knight Riders have lost 10 of the eleven matches here at Wankhede.