The Cricketer takes a look at the next fixture in the 2022 Indian Premier League season
Chennai Super Kings take on Sunrisers Hyderabad in the Indian Premier League.
The game will be played on Saturday, April 9. The first ball will be bowled at 3.30pm local time (11am GMT).
The game will be held at the Dr DY Patil Sports Academy in Mumbai.
After playing five matches between them, neither team has won a match yet this year in the IPL.
CSK have had a particularly difficult tournament so far and could only manage 131 for 5 in their first match against Kolkata Knight Riders as their batters failed to find any momentum to advance the strike rate.
They rectified this in their second match against Lucknow Super Giants with the help of a quickfire 49 from Shivam Dube on their way to racking up 210 for 7 batting first.
However, this wasn’t a big enough total to stop Lucknow from chasing it down well inside the final over. In their last game against Punjab Kings they suffered an almighty collapse chasing 180 to end up 126 all out with three of their line-up recording ducks.
Sunrisers have had batting problems of their own in their two matches so far. They fell well short of the 210 set by Rajasthan Royals, only making 149 for 7 in their 20 overs and couldn't chase 170 set by Lucknow Super Giants.
But SRH have shown some positive signs in their defeats. They looked to be on course to win their last encounter against Lucknow until Avesh Khan and Jason Holder intervened, the latter taking three wickets in the final over. However, their overseas trio of batsmen in Williamson, Markraam and Pooran have yet to find their full form.
Moeen Ali in action in the Bangladesh Premier League (Munir Uz Zaman/Getty Images)
Sunrisers must look to improve their batting strike rate after failing to reach 160 yet in the tournament.
Key to this will be No.3 Rahul Tripathi who managed a quickfire 44 in his last outing. He can give their innings impetus against Chennai’s key pace bowlers of Bravo and Jordan. Chennai will also need to improve with the bat and be more disciplined with the ball.
If Moeen Ali can put in an all-round performance, particularly with the bat he could get CSK back to their winning ways. Of course, MS Dhoni will as ever be important in providing Chennai with a productive end to their innings.
Matches played: 16
Chennai Super Kings wins: 12
Sunrisers Hyderabad wins: 4
It will be a cloudy but warm morning in Mumbai with temperatures hovering around 32 degrees Celcius.
Chennai Super Kings: Ravindra Jadeja, MS Dhoni, Moeen Ali, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Robin Uthappa, Dwayne Bravo, Ambati Rayudu, Deepak Chahar, KM Asif, Tushar Deshpande, Shivam Dube, Maheesh Theekshana, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Simarjeet Singh, Devon Conway, Dwaine Pretorius, Mitchell Santner, Adam Milne, Subhranshu Senapati, Mukesh Choudhary, Prashant Solanki, C Hari Nishaanth, N Jagadeesan, Chris Jordan, K Bhagath Varma
Sunrisers Hyderabad: Kane Williamson, Abdul Samad, Umran Malik, Washington Sundar, Nicholas Pooran, T Natarajan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Priyam Garg, Rahul Tripathi, Abhishek Sharma, Kartik Tyagi, Shreyas Gopal, Jagadeesha Suchith, Aiden Markram, Marco Jansen, Romario Shepherd, Sean Abbott, R Samarth, Shashank Singh, Saurabh Dubey, Vishnu Vinod, Glenn Phillips, Fazalhaq Farooqi
Kane Williamson (Robert Cianflone/ Getty Images)
Chennai Super Kings: Abhishek Sharma, Kane Williamson, Rahul Tripathi, Nicolas Pooran, Aidan Markram, Abdul Samad, Romario Shepherd, Washington Sundar, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, T Natarajan, Umran Malik
Sunrisers Hyderabad: Ruturaj Gaikwad, Robin Uthappa, Moeen Ali, Ambati Rayudu, Ravindra Jadeja, Shivam Dube, MS Dhoni, Dwayne Bravo, Dwayne Pretorius, Chris Jordan, Mukesh Choudhary
Bet365 have Chennai as the favourites to win the match at 4/6 and Sunrisers at 6/5. PaddyPower has the same odds.
It’s a tough one with both sides equally struggling so far in the tournament but Chennai have much more firepower with the bat and some star overseas bowlers. They start as favourites.
In the UK, Sky Sports have exclusive rights to this year's tournament, with matches available on Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Cricket.
Fans in India can watch all of the action on Star Sports.
Elsewhere in the world, viewers in Australia can watch the IPL on Fox Sports while in New Zealand, Sky Sport will provide coverage.
Willow TV and Flow Sports will broadcast the tournament in the United States and the Caribbean, respectively.
Fans in MENA can catch the action on beIN Sports while in South Africa, SuperSport have the rights.
The IPL can also be streamed on Disney+ and Hotstar in certain areas.
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