After two weeks in the tournament, no team has managed to hand the Challengers a defeat but the only capable contenders are whom they are up against.
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Chennai Super Kings (CSK) is one of the most successful sides in the league while Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) have been the eternal ‘underachievers’ of IPL. Experts also refer to this rivalry as ‘Ice (MS Dhoni) against fire (Virat Kohli)’. This has always been the test of acumen for Virat Kohli against the most successful captain of India. Both teams have met a total of 24 times in IPL and Chennai Super Kings have come out victorious on 15 occasions. Royal Challengers Bangalore have been successful to edge out CSK in 9 games. CSK have been the superior side on the play-off days as well and most notably, CSK claimed its second title by beating RCB in 2011 at Chepauk. With three wins and one defeat from their four league matches, Chennai Super Kings are in the second position in the Indian Premier League 2021 points table. The team currently has 6 points. Royal Challengers Bangalore are placed at the top spot in the Indian Premier League 2021 points table with wins from all their 4 matches of the league. The team is with 8 points.
Wicket-keeper: AB de Villiers, MS Dhoni
Batsmen: Ruturaj Gaikwad, Virat Kohli, Faf Du Plessis, Devdutt Padikkal
All-rounders: Glenn Maxwell, Ravindra Jadeja
Bowlers: Deepak Chahar, Mohammed Siraj, Kyle Jamieson
CSK: Ruturaj Gaikwad, Faf Du Plessis, Moeen Ali, Suresh Raina, Ambati Rayudu, MS Dhoni (C and WK), Dwayne Bravo, Ravindra Jadeja, Sam Curran, Shardul Thakur, Deepak Chahar
RCB: Devdutt Padikkal, Virat Kohli, Mohammad Azharuddeen/Shahbaz Ahmed, AB de Villiers, Glenn Maxwell, Dan Christian, Washington Sundar, Kyle Jamieson, Harshal Patel, Yuzvendra Chahal, Mohammad Siraj
The game will begin at 19:30 hours IST on April 25.
CSK: MS Dhoni (C), Suresh Raina, Faf du Plessis, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ambati Rayudu, Imran Tahir, Josh Hazlewood, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Lungi Ngidi, Dwayne Bravo, Karn Sharma, Ravindra Jadeja, Moeen Ali, Deepak Chahar, Shardul Thakur, K Gowtam, Sam Curran, Robin Uthappa, Mitchell Santner, Jagadeesan N, KM Asif, R Sai Kishore, C Hari Nishaanth, M Harisankar Reddy, K Bhagath Verma
RCB: Virat Kohli (c), Devdutt Padikkal, Finn Allen (wk), AB de Villiers (wk), Pavan Deshpande, Washington Sundar, Daniel Sams, Yuzvendra Chahal, Adam Zampa, Shahbaz Ahmed, Mohammed Siraj, Navdeep Saini, Kane Richardson, Harshal Patel, Glenn Maxwell, Sachin Baby, Rajat Patidar, Mohammed Azharuddeen, Kyle Jamieson, Daniel Christian, Suyash Prabhudessai, K.S. Bharat
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