The astute tactician in Mahendra Singh Dhoni will dig deep into his reserves to counter Indian cricket’s new ‘Crown Prince’ Shubman Gill as four-time champions Chennai Super Kings will meet their match in present title holders Gujarat Titans in Qualifier-1 of the IPL in Chennai on Tuesday. Gill, who nearly single-handedly knocked out a star-studded Royal Challengers Bangalore with a century for the retains, has overshadowed Virat Kohli and will definitely drive considered one of India’s biggest captains to return to drafting board and make plans for him.

Gill is within the midst of a dream season and what shall be Dhoni’s tactical ploy to cease the dashing ‘Mohali Marauder’ is there to be seen.

This season, Gujarat Titans have not performed on the Chepauk, which hasn’t behaved in a singular method throughout CSK’s seven residence video games and that prompted head coach Stephen Fleming to lift apprehensions about what to anticipate.

What makes this battle much more fascinating is the truth that GT is a crew that appears closest to being a proto-type of what CSK had been all these years in IPL.

A stable administration and an administration crew that stays within the background and by no means interferes in cricketing issues, which is left to the trio of Ashish Nehra, Gary Kirsten and Vikram Solanki.

A captain, who swears that his understanding of management is reduce from Dhoni’s ‘captaincy fabric’, and head coach Nehra, who identical to his former teammate would not imagine in too many modifications even when a few video games go improper.

They do not discipline gamers based mostly on their public sale value — bear in mind CSK purchased Krishnappa Gowtham for practically Rs 10 crore and he obtained a single sport as he did not match the mixture.

Similarly, GT has present India T20 pacer Shivam Mavi on its roster for a whopping Rs 6 crore however the crew administration has most well-liked veteran Mohit Sharma, who’s executing the slower deliveries fantastically. It’s all about who suits what function. So, it turns into extra fascinating when two groups with related philosophy are pitted in opposition to one another.

The groups which do not make long-term guarantees which can be tough to fulfil however deal with rapid course of and know the roles of gamers required for slots.

For Gujarat, tackling the slowness of the Chepauk monitor shall be a problem and the way nicely they negotiate Deepak Chahar’s powerplay overs and Matheesha Pathirana’s slingers on the back-end, will decide the result of the match.

And herein, Pandya and Nehra will discover Sri Lanka skipper Dasun Shanaka’s inputs helpful as he has dealt with each Pathirana and spinner Maheesh Theekshana for the nationwide crew.

While Shanaka may be used extra as an all-rounder, Titans relying on the toss also can check out left-arm spinner R Sai Kishore, who is aware of these situations nicely.

There is an opportunity that Irishman Joshua Little shall be again in enjoying XI rather than Shanaka and Sai Kishore comes rather than Yash Dayal, who’s but to get again his confidence after the 5 sixes assault on him by his statemate Rinku Singh.

For CSK, a very good begin by the crack pair of Devon Conway and Ruturaj Gaikwad shall be vital. But on the Chepauk, even Ajinkya Rahane may change into an element whereas Shivam Dube would love so as to add to his 33 sixes for the season.

Conway and Gaikwad have supplied brisk and substantial begins for CSK, the middle-order hasn’t precisely obtained going. With GT bowling led by Mohammed Shami and Rashid Khan (24 wickets every to this point) issues will not be straightforward for the house crew’s batters, Conway and Gaikwad included.

How the CSK opening duo handles the relentless Shami could show very important and it could be vital for the under-performing middle-order to step up in a crunch sport.

The pitches at Chepauk to this point have been a bit up and down, with a number of being gradual in nature whereas some have been good to bat on. CSK head coach Fleming stated as a lot after the win over Delhi Capitals, claiming that the crew is uncertain concerning the situations (at residence).

If a sluggish pitch is rolled out for the match, the spinners within the two groups would have an enormous half to play. If CSK has Ravindra Jadeja, Moeen Ali and Theekshana, the Titans boast of a line-up that features Rashid and Noor Ahmad.

Chennai Super Kings:MS Dhoni (c/wk), Akash Singh, Moeen Ali, Bhagath Varma, Deepak Chahar, Devon Conway, Tushar Deshpande, Shivam Dube, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Ravindra Jadeja, Sisanda Magala, Ajay Mandal, Matheesha Pathirana, Dwaine Pretorius, Ajinkya Rahane, Shaik Rasheed, Ambati Rayudu, Mitchell Santner, Subhranshu Senapati, Simarjeet Singh, Nishant Sindhu, Prashant Solanki, Maheesh Theekshana.

Gujarat Titans:Hardik Pandya (c), Shubman Gill, David Miller, Abhinav Manohar, Sai Sudharsan, Wriddhiman Saha, Matthew Wade, Rashid Khan, Rahul Tewatia, Vijay Shankar, Mohammed Shami, Alzarri Joseph, Yash Dayal, Pradeep Sangwan, Darshan Nalkande, Jayant Yadav, R. Sai Kishore, Noor Ahmad, Dasun Shanaka, Odean Smith, KS Bharat, Shivam Mavi, Urvil Patel, Joshua Little and Mohit Sharma.

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