In the much-awaited finals of the Indian Premier League (IPL), CSK invited SRH yo bat first. Shikhar Dhawan and Sreevarts Goswami opened the innings. Deepak Chahar bowled the first over and gave just six runs. Lungi Ngiid came to bowl the second over. Shreevats ran a suicidal run and was runout for mere 5. Kane Williamson came to bat. Chahar continued and kept it tight. SRH: 17-1
Here are the squads for both the teams:
Chennai Super Kings playing 11 for today's match: Shane Watson, Faf du Plessis, Suresh Raina, Ambati Rayudu, MS Dhoni(w/c), Dwayne Bravo, Ravindra Jadeja, Deepak Chahar, Karn Sharma, Shardul Thakur, Lungi Ngidi. Change: Karn Sharma replaces Harbhajan Singh.
Sunrisers Hyderabad playing 11 for today's match: Shikhar Dhawan, Shreevats Goswami(w), Kane Williamson(c), Shakib Al Hasan, Deepak Hooda, Yusuf Pathan, Carlos Brathwaite, Rashid Khan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Siddarth Kaul, Sandeep Sharma. Change: Sandeep Sharma and Shreevats Goswami replace Saha and Khaleel.
Sunrisers Hyderabad innings: Over by over
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Over 1: Deepak Chahar to Sreevats Goswami, no ball over the waist height and a single taken. Dhawan hit the FREE HIT ball straight to long-on for a single. Goswami took a single off the 2nd ball. Dhawan played the third ball straight to backward point, no run taken. Dhawan dabbed the next ball for a quick single. Goswami dabbed the ball in the third-man region for a single. DOT ball to end the over. SRH: 6/0, Shikhar Dhawan: 2(4b), Sreevats Goswami: 3(3b)
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Over 2: Lungi Ngidi to Sreevats Goswami, one run taken. Dhawan played the 2nd ball fine for four runs. Dhawan left the ball to the keeper followed by a single. Goswami dabbed the ball in the leg side and a suicidal run out as Goswami wanted to take a double. Kane Williamson came to crease and defended the last ball for a single. SRH: 14/1, Sreevats Goswami run out (Karn Sharma/Dhoni) 5 (5b 0x4 0x6)
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Over 3: Deepak Chahar to Kane Williamson, pulled the ball straight to short mid wicket followed by a single. DOT ball. Dhawan whipped the ball from the pad in the legside for a single. Williamson dabbed the 5th ball for a quick single. DOT ball to end the over. SRH: 17/1, Shikhar Dhawan: 8(10b), Kane Williamson: 3(4b)
Match preview
These two southern rivals last met in Qualifier 1 on May 22, in which CSK, champions in 2010 and 2011, just managed to emerge victorious in a low-scoring thriller, after crumbling in the middle overs during the run chase. SRH prevailed over Kolkata Knight Riders with a margin of just 14 runs at Eden Gardens in Qualifier 2 to seal a place in the coveted final.
Who has an edge in the CSK vs SRH IPL final 2018?
In the three encounters that the two finalists have had in IPL 2018, Chennai Super Kings won all three matches. The much awaited IPL 2018 final today will typically be a clash between SRH’s bowling and CSK’s batting. With the likes of Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Rashid Khan and Siddarth Kaul, Sunrisers Hyderabad boasts of a superb bowling attack whereas the CSK has a star-studded batting line-up consisting of Shane Watson, skipper Dhoni, Ambati Rayudu, Suresh Raina and others. For Chennai Super Kings, each of these batsman had risen to the occasion whenever they were needed.
ALSO READ: IPL 2018 final: How Hyderabad's sun rose and Chennai became Super Kings
CSK have been on a roll ever since they made a comeback to the IPL fold after serving a two-year-ban. They have rarely lost momentum in the current series, with the old guards and new sensations firing in unison. In their final league game at their adopted home ground in Pune, Chennai Super Kings rode on Suresh Raina's gutsy half century to romp home by five wickets. Later, in the Qualifier-1, a match where most of the CSK batsmen got out cheaply against SRH, opener Faf du Plessis smashed a match-winning half-century to help Chennai reach their seventh IPL final. Ambati Rayudu, the other opener in Chennai's side, has been the standout performer with 586 runs and also performed well in the middle order. Australian Shane Watson has also been in top form, accumulating 438 runs from 13 matches, while Raina, skipper Dhoni and all-rounder Deepak Chahar have been the backbone of CSK's middle order.
In the bowling front, former two-time champions Chennai Super Kings will bank on young South African Lungi Ngidi, who has six wickets from 10 games with a decent economy rate of 5.90. With Shardul Thakur, Deepak Chahar and Dwayne Bravo doing their bit on the pace bowling front, CSK will lean on veteran Harbhajan Singh's spearheading the spin attack with left-armer Ravindra Jadeja in the middle overs.
On the other hand, Sunrisers Hyderabad are mostly bank on their bowling, which has a lot of variety and some of the best names in the business. Afghan spinner Rashid Khan has been brilliant throughout the season, bagging 21 wickets from 16 games. The leggie came up with a sensational figure of 3/19 against KKR in Qualifier 2, apart from a quick-fire cameo of 34 off just 10 balls. Rashid had also troubled Chennai in the first qualifier with figures of 2/11. In the batting front, Orange cap holder in IPL 2018, Kane Williamson has led from the front. The New Zealand skipper, rated as one of the best batters of the current generation, has so far amassed 688 runs in 16 games at an average of 52.92. Williamson has also led admirably on the field.
Opener Shikhar Dhawan has also been good, amassing 471 runs from 15 games and Hyderabad's opening will mostly rely on him. The middle-order however, looks a bit shaky and needs to find its touch for one last time in IPL 2018 as Manish Pandey, Wriddhiman Saha, Shakib Al Hasan and Yusuf Pathan have failed to live up to expectations. It will also be interesting to see whether Yusuf Pathan gets a chance in the playing 11 in the mega final, as the Baroda right-hander has failed miserably in IPL 2018, with just 215 runs from 15 games.
Overall, it could be another edge-of-the-seat match on a Super Sunday for fans, when the two best teams of IPL 2018 square off one final time.
Here are a few things to know about the Chennai Super Kings vs Sunrisers Hyderabad (CSK vs SRH) match (IPL final 2018) to be played at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai, the two teams' players who could prove handy, and who has said what before the clash:
Who will win IPL final 2018 between Chennai Super Kings and Sunrisers Hyderabad (CSK vs SRH)? On the eve of the high-octane Indian Premier League (IPL) final between Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH), the M.S Dhoni-led yellow brigade have been voted as the strong favourites by a sports fans survey to win their third title at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. According to the survey conducted by Indian Sports Fan, an online largest sports fan community, CSK are the favourites to win the title while skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni is the most favourite player with the Wankhede as the most preferred stadium. The fans survey highlighted Dhoni as the most revered player out of the top 12 players with 27.3 per cent votes followed by Virat Kohli with 22 per cent and SRH captain Kane Williamson with 20.11 per cent fan votes. The survey further revealed that Mumbai's iconic Wankhede Stadium as the most preferred stadium with 30 per cent votes followed by Kolkata's Eden Gardens Stadium with 20.22 per cent votes, as compared to eight other stadiums. The survey targeted 14,000 fans across 10 cities with 4,802 successful respondents.
What Dhoni said ahead of IPL 2018 final and about Indian fast bowler Deepak Chahar: Chennai Super Kings skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni said that the consistency of the Indian fast bowlers was one of the big positives IPL 2018. "I think every season of IPL has produced very good Indian domestic players, who have come up and have done well for their respective teams," Dhoni said before today's final against Sunrisers Hyderabad. While Dhoni's side has young pacers like Shardul Thakur and Deepak Chahar, who have performed exceptionally well, others young seamers like Shivam Mavi, Prasidh Krishna too made a mark. "What is slightly different is that this season, we have seen a lot of Indian fast bowlers coming in (and) playing consistently and they have executed very well. So that is a big positive for Indian cricket.
What SRH head coach Tom Moody said ahead of IPL final 2018: Sunrisers Hyderabad lost to Chennai Super Kings in the IPL Qualfier 1 just a few days back but their head coach Tom Moody said that his side would not think of the past match but focus on their brand of cricket in today's summit clash. "I am not looking here at what we need to tighten up. We need to concentrate on our brand of cricket and bring that to the final," said Moody at the media conference today ahead of the final match at the Wankhede Stadium. "We all can recall the last game we played which we could have won by 20 runs. It was a remarkable comeback by CSK. Faf du Plessis played a remarkable innings and showed his class and experience," the former Australia cricketer said.
Rashid Khan is the player to watch in IPL final: The Indian Premier League 2018 will end on Sunday with Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) meeting for the fourth time in the highly popular Twenty20 league in IPL 2018. CSK beat SRH in all their three meetings, both the league games as well as in the first qualifier, even though the Hyderabad team topped the league standings after each of the eight teams played 14 matches. After watching Rashid Khan mesmerise the KKR, not only his team SRH but everyone will be looking at him to take the final to greater heights. He is the IPL star of this season. Both the teams are owned by corporates from Chennai, CSK by a cement giant and the Hyderabad-based Sunrisers by an electronic media moghul, who runs a variety of television channels in all South Indian languages and radio stations. Unlike some other franchises, the owners of the two teams are not visible, CSK after the match-fixing scandal involving one its co-owners, leading to to its suspension for two years. When the two meet in the final at the Wankhede Stadium, it would be a second time in a week, having also played the first qualifier there. The two best teams will be playing the final, SRH's four successive losses before playing KKR on Friday night notwithstanding. CLICK HERE FOR MORE
IPL hinders players' growth in first-class cricket, says Andy Flower: England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) stand-in director Andy Flower says participation in the Indian Premier League hinders many "growth opportunities" for the country's players in first-class cricket. As many as 12 England players, including Ben Stokes, Chris Woakes and Jos Buttler, featured in this year's IPL. "The ECB position, at the moment, is to allow some of our best players to go to the IPL. And a lot of people will say things have thankfully moved on from the time I made my decisions around subjects like the IPL," Flower was quoted as saying by ESPNCricinfo. When he was the England coach, Flower was often sceptical of English players' participation in the IPL at the expense of their performance in Test cricket, which put him at loggerheads with stars such as Kevin Pietersen.
Eden Gardens, best ground of IPL 2018: Kolkata Knight Riders may have lost in the final race but its home venue, the hallowed Eden Gardens, was voted as the best ground in IPL 2018. In a tweet, former India captain Sourav Ganguly revealed this ahead of the official BCCI announcement on Sunday and also thanked the ground staff for their contribution. "The CAB is happy to inform that Eden Gardens has once again been awarded the best venue and ground of IPL 2018," the Cricket Association of Bengal president wrote on his official Twitter handle. This season, Eden Gardens went on to host nine matches of IPL 2018 after getting two bonus matches in the playoffs which were originally slated in Pune.
How Dhoni’s Chennai Super Kings were related with Gavaskar led Indian cricket team in World Championship: Sunil Gavaskar's 1985 book, 'One Day Wonders' based on India's World Championship of Cricket triumph, had an interesting anecdote. Skipper Gavaskar himself, Mohinder Amarnath and Madan Lal were three players above 30 in the playing XI during that tournament in Australia. Whenever one among the three would take a smart catch, field well or get a direct throw right, the others would come and say "Well done OT". 'OT', according to Gavaskar, was the short form of 'Over Thirty' -- a bit of self deprecating humour to let people know that 'Age indeed is just a number'. Mahendra Singh Dhoni surely doesn't have any fancy terms reserved for his bunch of veterans but indeed his 'OTs' have done him proud as Chennai Super Kings gear up for their seventh Indian Premier League final. He has successfully created "chaos in the opposition ranks" with his 'out of the box' thinking and made the difficult cricketers "fall in line with team culture" to create a cohesive unit. The average age of the core team comprising Dhoni (36), Ambati Rayudu (32), Suresh Raina (31), Dwayne Bravo (34), Shane Watson (37) and Harbhajan Singh (37) is 34 and half years. Yet they are a complete antithesis to what everyone terms as 'Dad's Army'. But what has been the recipe of CSK's success despite having to start from scratch after a two-year ban?
CSK vs SRH head to head ahead IPL final 2018
Overall:
Matches: 9
Chennai Super Kings won: 7
Sunrisers Hyderabad won: 2
Here are the squads for both the teams:
Chennai Super Kings playing 11 for today's match: Shane Watson, Faf du Plessis, Suresh Raina, Ambati Rayudu, MS Dhoni(w/c), Dwayne Bravo, Ravindra Jadeja, Deepak Chahar, Karn Sharma, Shardul Thakur, Lungi Ngidi. Change: Karn Sharma replaces Harbhajan Singh.
Sunrisers Hyderabad playing 11 for today's match: Shikhar Dhawan, Shreevats Goswami(w), Kane Williamson(c), Shakib Al Hasan, Deepak Hooda, Yusuf Pathan, Carlos Brathwaite, Rashid Khan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Siddarth Kaul, Sandeep Sharma. Change: Sandeep Sharma and Shreevats Goswami replace Saha and Khaleel.
Sunrisers Hyderabad innings: Over by over
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Over 1: Deepak Chahar to Sreevats Goswami, no ball over the waist height and a single taken. Dhawan hit the FREE HIT ball straight to long-on for a single. Goswami took a single off the 2nd ball. Dhawan played the third ball straight to backward point, no run taken. Dhawan dabbed the next ball for a quick single. Goswami dabbed the ball in the third-man region for a single. DOT ball to end the over. SRH: 6/0, Shikhar Dhawan: 2(4b), Sreevats Goswami: 3(3b)
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Over 2: Lungi Ngidi to Sreevats Goswami, one run taken. Dhawan played the 2nd ball fine for four runs. Dhawan left the ball to the keeper followed by a single. Goswami dabbed the ball in the leg side and a suicidal run out as Goswami wanted to take a double. Kane Williamson came to crease and defended the last ball for a single. SRH: 14/1, Sreevats Goswami run out (Karn Sharma/Dhoni) 5 (5b 0x4 0x6)
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Over 3: Deepak Chahar to Kane Williamson, pulled the ball straight to short mid wicket followed by a single. DOT ball. Dhawan whipped the ball from the pad in the legside for a single. Williamson dabbed the 5th ball for a quick single. DOT ball to end the over. SRH: 17/1, Shikhar Dhawan: 8(10b), Kane Williamson: 3(4b)
Match preview
These two southern rivals last met in Qualifier 1 on May 22, in which CSK, champions in 2010 and 2011, just managed to emerge victorious in a low-scoring thriller, after crumbling in the middle overs during the run chase. SRH prevailed over Kolkata Knight Riders with a margin of just 14 runs at Eden Gardens in Qualifier 2 to seal a place in the coveted final.
Who has an edge in the CSK vs SRH IPL final 2018?
In the three encounters that the two finalists have had in IPL 2018, Chennai Super Kings won all three matches. The much awaited IPL 2018 final today will typically be a clash between SRH’s bowling and CSK’s batting. With the likes of Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Rashid Khan and Siddarth Kaul, Sunrisers Hyderabad boasts of a superb bowling attack whereas the CSK has a star-studded batting line-up consisting of Shane Watson, skipper Dhoni, Ambati Rayudu, Suresh Raina and others. For Chennai Super Kings, each of these batsman had risen to the occasion whenever they were needed.
ALSO READ: IPL 2018 final: How Hyderabad's sun rose and Chennai became Super Kings
CSK have been on a roll ever since they made a comeback to the IPL fold after serving a two-year-ban. They have rarely lost momentum in the current series, with the old guards and new sensations firing in unison. In their final league game at their adopted home ground in Pune, Chennai Super Kings rode on Suresh Raina's gutsy half century to romp home by five wickets. Later, in the Qualifier-1, a match where most of the CSK batsmen got out cheaply against SRH, opener Faf du Plessis smashed a match-winning half-century to help Chennai reach their seventh IPL final. Ambati Rayudu, the other opener in Chennai's side, has been the standout performer with 586 runs and also performed well in the middle order. Australian Shane Watson has also been in top form, accumulating 438 runs from 13 matches, while Raina, skipper Dhoni and all-rounder Deepak Chahar have been the backbone of CSK's middle order.
In the bowling front, former two-time champions Chennai Super Kings will bank on young South African Lungi Ngidi, who has six wickets from 10 games with a decent economy rate of 5.90. With Shardul Thakur, Deepak Chahar and Dwayne Bravo doing their bit on the pace bowling front, CSK will lean on veteran Harbhajan Singh's spearheading the spin attack with left-armer Ravindra Jadeja in the middle overs.
On the other hand, Sunrisers Hyderabad are mostly bank on their bowling, which has a lot of variety and some of the best names in the business. Afghan spinner Rashid Khan has been brilliant throughout the season, bagging 21 wickets from 16 games. The leggie came up with a sensational figure of 3/19 against KKR in Qualifier 2, apart from a quick-fire cameo of 34 off just 10 balls. Rashid had also troubled Chennai in the first qualifier with figures of 2/11. In the batting front, Orange cap holder in IPL 2018, Kane Williamson has led from the front. The New Zealand skipper, rated as one of the best batters of the current generation, has so far amassed 688 runs in 16 games at an average of 52.92. Williamson has also led admirably on the field.
Opener Shikhar Dhawan has also been good, amassing 471 runs from 15 games and Hyderabad's opening will mostly rely on him. The middle-order however, looks a bit shaky and needs to find its touch for one last time in IPL 2018 as Manish Pandey, Wriddhiman Saha, Shakib Al Hasan and Yusuf Pathan have failed to live up to expectations. It will also be interesting to see whether Yusuf Pathan gets a chance in the playing 11 in the mega final, as the Baroda right-hander has failed miserably in IPL 2018, with just 215 runs from 15 games.
Overall, it could be another edge-of-the-seat match on a Super Sunday for fans, when the two best teams of IPL 2018 square off one final time.
Here are a few things to know about the Chennai Super Kings vs Sunrisers Hyderabad (CSK vs SRH) match (IPL final 2018) to be played at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai, the two teams' players who could prove handy, and who has said what before the clash:
Who will win IPL final 2018 between Chennai Super Kings and Sunrisers Hyderabad (CSK vs SRH)? On the eve of the high-octane Indian Premier League (IPL) final between Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH), the M.S Dhoni-led yellow brigade have been voted as the strong favourites by a sports fans survey to win their third title at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. According to the survey conducted by Indian Sports Fan, an online largest sports fan community, CSK are the favourites to win the title while skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni is the most favourite player with the Wankhede as the most preferred stadium. The fans survey highlighted Dhoni as the most revered player out of the top 12 players with 27.3 per cent votes followed by Virat Kohli with 22 per cent and SRH captain Kane Williamson with 20.11 per cent fan votes. The survey further revealed that Mumbai's iconic Wankhede Stadium as the most preferred stadium with 30 per cent votes followed by Kolkata's Eden Gardens Stadium with 20.22 per cent votes, as compared to eight other stadiums. The survey targeted 14,000 fans across 10 cities with 4,802 successful respondents.
What Dhoni said ahead of IPL 2018 final and about Indian fast bowler Deepak Chahar: Chennai Super Kings skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni said that the consistency of the Indian fast bowlers was one of the big positives IPL 2018. "I think every season of IPL has produced very good Indian domestic players, who have come up and have done well for their respective teams," Dhoni said before today's final against Sunrisers Hyderabad. While Dhoni's side has young pacers like Shardul Thakur and Deepak Chahar, who have performed exceptionally well, others young seamers like Shivam Mavi, Prasidh Krishna too made a mark. "What is slightly different is that this season, we have seen a lot of Indian fast bowlers coming in (and) playing consistently and they have executed very well. So that is a big positive for Indian cricket.
What SRH head coach Tom Moody said ahead of IPL final 2018: Sunrisers Hyderabad lost to Chennai Super Kings in the IPL Qualfier 1 just a few days back but their head coach Tom Moody said that his side would not think of the past match but focus on their brand of cricket in today's summit clash. "I am not looking here at what we need to tighten up. We need to concentrate on our brand of cricket and bring that to the final," said Moody at the media conference today ahead of the final match at the Wankhede Stadium. "We all can recall the last game we played which we could have won by 20 runs. It was a remarkable comeback by CSK. Faf du Plessis played a remarkable innings and showed his class and experience," the former Australia cricketer said.
Rashid Khan is the player to watch in IPL final: The Indian Premier League 2018 will end on Sunday with Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) meeting for the fourth time in the highly popular Twenty20 league in IPL 2018. CSK beat SRH in all their three meetings, both the league games as well as in the first qualifier, even though the Hyderabad team topped the league standings after each of the eight teams played 14 matches. After watching Rashid Khan mesmerise the KKR, not only his team SRH but everyone will be looking at him to take the final to greater heights. He is the IPL star of this season. Both the teams are owned by corporates from Chennai, CSK by a cement giant and the Hyderabad-based Sunrisers by an electronic media moghul, who runs a variety of television channels in all South Indian languages and radio stations. Unlike some other franchises, the owners of the two teams are not visible, CSK after the match-fixing scandal involving one its co-owners, leading to to its suspension for two years. When the two meet in the final at the Wankhede Stadium, it would be a second time in a week, having also played the first qualifier there. The two best teams will be playing the final, SRH's four successive losses before playing KKR on Friday night notwithstanding. CLICK HERE FOR MORE
IPL hinders players' growth in first-class cricket, says Andy Flower: England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) stand-in director Andy Flower says participation in the Indian Premier League hinders many "growth opportunities" for the country's players in first-class cricket. As many as 12 England players, including Ben Stokes, Chris Woakes and Jos Buttler, featured in this year's IPL. "The ECB position, at the moment, is to allow some of our best players to go to the IPL. And a lot of people will say things have thankfully moved on from the time I made my decisions around subjects like the IPL," Flower was quoted as saying by ESPNCricinfo. When he was the England coach, Flower was often sceptical of English players' participation in the IPL at the expense of their performance in Test cricket, which put him at loggerheads with stars such as Kevin Pietersen.
Eden Gardens, best ground of IPL 2018: Kolkata Knight Riders may have lost in the final race but its home venue, the hallowed Eden Gardens, was voted as the best ground in IPL 2018. In a tweet, former India captain Sourav Ganguly revealed this ahead of the official BCCI announcement on Sunday and also thanked the ground staff for their contribution. "The CAB is happy to inform that Eden Gardens has once again been awarded the best venue and ground of IPL 2018," the Cricket Association of Bengal president wrote on his official Twitter handle. This season, Eden Gardens went on to host nine matches of IPL 2018 after getting two bonus matches in the playoffs which were originally slated in Pune.
How Dhoni’s Chennai Super Kings were related with Gavaskar led Indian cricket team in World Championship: Sunil Gavaskar's 1985 book, 'One Day Wonders' based on India's World Championship of Cricket triumph, had an interesting anecdote. Skipper Gavaskar himself, Mohinder Amarnath and Madan Lal were three players above 30 in the playing XI during that tournament in Australia. Whenever one among the three would take a smart catch, field well or get a direct throw right, the others would come and say "Well done OT". 'OT', according to Gavaskar, was the short form of 'Over Thirty' -- a bit of self deprecating humour to let people know that 'Age indeed is just a number'. Mahendra Singh Dhoni surely doesn't have any fancy terms reserved for his bunch of veterans but indeed his 'OTs' have done him proud as Chennai Super Kings gear up for their seventh Indian Premier League final. He has successfully created "chaos in the opposition ranks" with his 'out of the box' thinking and made the difficult cricketers "fall in line with team culture" to create a cohesive unit. The average age of the core team comprising Dhoni (36), Ambati Rayudu (32), Suresh Raina (31), Dwayne Bravo (34), Shane Watson (37) and Harbhajan Singh (37) is 34 and half years. Yet they are a complete antithesis to what everyone terms as 'Dad's Army'. But what has been the recipe of CSK's success despite having to start from scratch after a two-year ban?
CSK vs SRH head to head ahead IPL final 2018
Overall:
Matches: 9
Chennai Super Kings won: 7
Sunrisers Hyderabad won: 2
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