Samson, Overton star as CSK earn first win

Delhi Capitals choose to bowl vs Chennai Super Kings

Delhi Capitals captain Axar Patel gained the toss and elected to bowl towards Chennai Super Kings on a contemporary red-soil pitch at Chepauk. They made one change, swapping out legspin-bowling allrounder Vipraj Nigam for seamer Auqib Nabi. This will likely be Nabi’s first sport within the IPL.

CSK made two adjustments, bringing again middle-order batter Dewald Brevis, who has sufficiently recovered from a aspect harm, and handing an IPL debut to Tamil Nadu left-arm fast Gurjapneet Singh. There was no room for New Zealand quick bowler Matt Henry or native left-arm spin-bowling allrounder Prashant Veer, who’s but to bowl within the IPL.

Gurjapneet, 27, not too long ago performed for India A and has been among the many finest loss of life bowlers within the Tamil Nadu Premier League.

Apart from Brevis, Jamie Overton and Noor have been the abroad gamers for CSK of their bat-first XI. There was no place for Kartik Sharma, who was as a substitute on the Impact Sub bench. CSK, although, may take into account bringing in Akeal Hosein as an Impact Sub once they bowl later within the night.

CSK bat-first XI: Sanju Samson (wk), Ruturaj Gaikwad (capt), Ayush Mhatre, Sarfaraz Khan, Dewald Brevis, Shivam Dube, Jamie Overton, Noor Ahmad, Anshul Kamboj, Khaleel Ahmed, Gurjapneet Singh

Impact Sub bench: Matt Short, Akeal Hosein, Kartik Sharma, Prashant Veer, Matt Henry

DC bowl-first XI: 1 KL Rahul (wk), 2 Pathum Nissanka, 3 Sameer Rizvi, 4 Axar Patel (capt), 5 Tristan Stubbs, 6 David Miller, 7 Auqib Nabi, 8 Lungi Ngidi, 9 Kuldeep Yadav, 10 T Natarajan, 11 Mukesh Kumar

Impact Sub bench: Vipraj Nigam, Ashutosh Sharma, Karun Nair, Dushmantha Chameera, Nitish Rana