To Bowl for the Gujarat Titans with MS Dhoni? Ex-CSK Skipper’s Warm-Up Bowling Is the Subject of Rumours

New Delhi: Prior to the current match 7 between the Gujarat Titans and the Chennai Super Kings at MA Chidambaram Stadium, former skipper MS Dhoni was seen rolling his arms. There is conjecture among fans that they will see “Thala” bowl the over against GT.

Every time, Dhoni gives his supporters a surprise they didn’t anticipate. He had already declared Ruturaj Gaikwad to be his replacement for the Chennai Super Kings in the current campaign.

Given Dhoni’s recent surprising choices, supporters now anticipate that he will bowl against Gujarat. This is the image:

In a rematch of the previous edition’s championship match, Gujarat Titans captain Ruturaj Gaikwad won the toss and chose to bowl first against Chennai Super Kings in Match 7.

Chennai had won four of their last five games and beat the Gujarat Titans in the IPL 2023 championship. In the first match of the IPL 2024, CSK easily defeated Royal Challengers Bengaluru to begin their championship defence.

Gujarat, the 2022 champions, had won three of their previous five games. They defeated the Mumbai Indians, the other IPL team, to win five games and begin their campaign in 2024.

While the reigning champion Chennai Super Kings made a move, inserting Matheesha Pathirana in place of fellow Sri Lankan Maheesh Theekshana, Gujarat remained unaltered from the Mumbai Indians game.

According to Shubhan Gill, they are prepared for their rematch. “It was a mentally and physically taxing first match.” Fast turnaround, but it’s nothing new to us. Being able to fall behind in the game and then come back was an amazing experience. It demonstrated our team’s character. Gill, who stumbled and indicated they would bat first before correcting himself, remarked, “We are going with the same team.”

Ruturaj Gaikwad, the captain of CSK, said that they too intended to bowl first.

“Our goal was to bowl first.” The wicket is identical to the one we used in the first encounter. Here, going first is not all that different. We had, in my opinion, a sputtering start, but we recovered well. And we made sure they couldn’t return once we got back. Everyone had the best of intentions. We have our Malinga, Pathirana, in place of Theeskahana,” said Gaikwad.

XI play:

Chennai Super Kings: M.S. Dhoni (wk), Deepak Chahar, Tushar Deshpande, Mustafizur Rahman, Rachin Ravindra, Ajinkya Rahane, Daryl Mitchell, Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, Sameer Rizvi, and Ruturaj Gaikwad (c).

Subs: Mitchell Santner, Nishant Sindhu, Shaik Rasheed, Matheesha Pathirana, and Shardul Thakur

Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Shubman Gill (c), David Miller, Vijay Shankar, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, R. Sai Kishore, Umesh Yadav, Mohit Sharma, and Spencer Johnson are the Gujarat Titans players.

Subs: Noor Ahmad, Abhinav Manohar, Manav Suthar, BR Sharath, and Sai Sudharsan.