Chennai, Mar 26 (UNI) Gujarat Titans (GT) won the toss and elected to
bowl first in its second IPL match against defending champions Chennai
Super Kings (CSK) here on Tuesday night.
It is a repeat of last year's final, in which CSK romped home in a thriller
to win the title for the fifth time.
Both the teams have won their opening matches in this edition and would
be looking to further consolidate it in this match.
While GT retained the same XI that played against Mumbai Indians in the
last match, CSK made one change bringing in slinger Matheesha Pathirana
for off-spinner Maheesh Theekshana, from the last match which they won
by six wickets against RCB here.
The teams :
CSK :
Ruturaj Gaikwad (capt), Rachin Ravindra, Ajinkya Rahane, Daryl Mitchell,
Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, Sameer Rizvi, MS Dhoni (wk), Deepak
Chahar, Tushar Deshpande, Mustafizur Rahman.
Subs: Matheesha Pathirana, Shardul Thakur, Shaik Rasheed, Nishant Sindhu,
Mitchell Santner
Gujarat Titans:
Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Shubman Gill (capt), Azmatullah Omarzai, David Miller,
Vijay Shankar, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, R Sai Kishore, Umesh Yadav, Mohit
Sharma, Spencer Johnson.
Subs: Sai Sudharsan, BR Sharath, Abhinav Manohar, Manav Suthar, Noor Ahmad.
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