In the 41st match of the IPL 2020, Chennai Super Kings (CSK) are facing the defending champions Mumbai Indians (MI) at Sharjah Cricket Stadium (Sharjah). It is their second meeting this season.
MS Dhoni-led Chennai Super Kings are playing their 11th match of this season. They are currently in the last position (8th position) in the IPL 2020 points table due to achieving only 6 points (3 wins and 7 loses).
On the other hand, it is the 10th match for Rohit Sharma-led Mumbai Indians in this IPL season. At present, MI are in the 3rd position in the points table with 12 points (6 wins and 3 loses).
These teams first time met in this IPL season during the opening game of this tournament at Sheikh Zayed Cricket Stadium (Abu Dhabi) on 19th September 2020. Chennai Super Kings ended their five-match losing streak against Mumbai Indians after winning that IPL 13 season opener by 5 wickets.
IPL 2020, Match 41: Chennai Super Kings vs Mumbai Indians (CSK vs MI) – Toss Report
Mumbai Indians stand-in captain Kieron Pollard won the toss and decided to field first. MI made only change in the playing XI as Saurabh Tiwary joined as the replacement of regular skipper Rohit Sharma.
Pollard said, “We are gonna bowl first. Don’t expect the wicket to change much and hopefully there’s some dew. We want to qualify to the playoffs first and we still have to come out and play good cricket. We have spoken about areas we need it improve and we want to execute them in the middle tonight. Rohit is struggling with his left hamstring and hopefully he will be fit soon and take the captaincy. Only change we have is Saurabh Tiwary comes in for Rohit.”
On the other hand, CSK captain MS Dhoni has confirmed that they made three alterations in the playing XI. Narayan Jagadeesan, Ruturaj Gaikwad and Imran Tahir have come in as the replacement of Kedar Jadhav, Piyush Chawla and Imran Tahir.
Dhoni said, “Last game we played here the wicket played slightly better in the second innings, so not much of a problem. Once we landed here we had a 14-day break and before that we had a seven day-camp in Chennai and once we’re here it became slightly difficult with the quarantine and there were a few phases where game went out of our hands and the batting wasn’t also upto the mark, It happens in cricket and there are quite a few reasons for why we haven’t been upto the mark. Three changes for us. Kedar Jadhav, Shane Watson, Piyush Chawla out and Jagadeesan, Ruturaj Gaikwad and Tahir are in.”
IPL 2020, Match 41: Chennai Super Kings vs Mumbai Indians (CSK vs MI) – Playing XIs
Mumbai Indians (MI): Quinton de Kock (wk), Saurabh Tiwary, Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan, Hardik Pandya, Kieron Pollard (C), Krunal Pandya, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Rahul Chahar, Trent Boult, Jasprit Bumrah
Chennai Super Kings (CSK): Sam Curran, Faf du Plessis, Ambati Rayudu, Narayan Jagadeesan, MS Dhoni (C/wk), Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ravindra Jadeja, Deepak Chahar, Shardul Thakur, Josh Hazlewood, Imran Tahir