Chennai Super Kings (CSK) is playing with Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) in the opening fixture of IPL 2019 today night.
CSK is the defending champions winning 9 of their 14 league matches and then turned in a dominant performance in the title clash to clinch their third IPL title.
In a head-to head meet between the teams, CSK becomes the dominant to RCB winning 14 matches, clashing the 22 times. RCB had just won the 7 matches.
RCB had a disappointing season in 2018. TheRCB won just 6 of their 14 league matches and finished sixth in the eight team standings. Virat Kohli’s team won only 3 of their first 10 matches and were therefore always playing catch up. Heading into their last league match, they were still in with a chance of progressing to the Playoffs; but Rajasthan Royals emerged victors in that match and qualified as the fourth qualifier.
RCB have retained 15 players from their 2018 squad and acquired the services of nine more players at the IPL Player Auction 2019. Shimron Hetmyer, Shivam Dube and Heinrich Klaasen are among the exciting new signings. They will be handicapped at the start of the season with Marcus Stoinis and Nathan Coulter-Nile missing out the first few games because of international commitments.
Chennai Super Kings: Shane Watson, Faf du Plessis, Suresh Raina, Ambati Rayudu, MS Dhoni, Kedar Jadhav, Dwayne Bravo, Ravindra Jadeja, Harbhajan Singh, Deepak Chahar, David Willey.
Royal Challengers Bangalore: Virat Kohli, Parthiv Patel, AB de Villiers, Heinrich Klaasen, Shimron Hetmyer, Moeen Ali, Washington Sundar, Pawan Negi, Yuzvendra Chahal, Mohammed Siraj, Umesh Yadav.
(Agencies)
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