IPL 2024: Delhi Capitals need Prithvi Shaw against CSK – Dainik Savera Times

Visakhapatnam. Delhi Capitals will need to reshuffle their batting order to include explosive Prithvi Shaw in their Indian Premier League (IPL) match against defending champions Chennai Super Kings (CSK) here on Sunday. Although a lot depends on the toss in the T20 format, Delhi Capitals (DC) have not been able to overcome the challenge of CSK in the last four encounters and in this also the margin of their defeat has been 91 runs, 27 runs and 77 runs, which is bad for their condition. Enough to show. And it also has to be seen that DC’s core team has remained almost the same in these three crushing defeats, except that Rishabh Pant was not available in the last encounter. Considering this, Delhi’s victory against CSK will also be considered a big upset of the tournament.

CSK is once again looking strong in every department, which is in complete contrast to coach Ricky Ponting’s DC as the Delhi team has been weak in both the departments of the game so far. DC’s co-owners GMR and JSW have been fiddling with the team composition in the auctions for the past few years, leaving the bowling or director of cricket Sourav Ganguly with little to do with home-grown talent. CSK bought ‘uncapped’ Sameer Rizvi for Rs 8.40 crore and the two sixes he hit against Punjab Kings in the very first IPL innings showed why the franchise was so desperate to include him in the team.

DC has the weakest ‘talent scout program’ among all the franchises and it is suffering the consequences. Ricky Bhui, who was the leading run scorer in the recently concluded Ranji Trophy season with 902 runs, clearly showed the difference between domestic cricket and IPL due to his poor performance in the team’s last match.
Shaw, who returned to competitive cricket during the second half of the Ranji Trophy, may not have met the fitness standards set by Ponting but everyone in DC’s ‘change room’ knows that if either Shaw or Bhui If you have to choose, who should you bet on?

David Warner also does not seem to be in his old form anymore while captain Pant will take some time to get back into rhythm. Mitchell Marsh has been with DC for the last two seasons but his performance has also not been consistent, hence Shaw’s presence will provide some strength to DC’s batting which will have to face a bowling attack like Mustafizur Rahman, Deepak Chahar, Mathisha Pathirana and Ravindra Jadeja. But the real challenge will be to face the ‘variety’ of Mustafizur’s ‘cutters’ who cleverly keep creating problems for the batsmen.

The problem is that if Pant can’t get going, DC doesn’t have any ‘power hitters’ among the homegrown talent. Whereas Shai Hope and Tristan Stubbs take time at the crease. DC’s bowling in the ‘death overs’ is also a matter of concern in which except Axar Patel, no other bowler has been able to give less than 7.50 runs per over. Enrich Nokia could not bowl the right line and length due to which DC gave away a lot of runs in the last five overs against Rajasthan Royals. Due to this, DC will need the return of Ishant Sharma.

The teams are as follows:

Delhi Capitals: Rishabh Pant (captain), David Warner, Prithvi Shaw, Yash Dhull, Abhishek Porel, Axar Patel, Lalit Yadav, Mitchell Marsh, Praveen Dubey, Vicky Ostwal, Enrique Nokia, Kuldeep Yadav, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Khaleel Ahmed, Ishant Sharma, Mukesh Kumar, Tristan Stubbs, Ricky Bhui, Kumar Kushagra, Rasikh Dar, Jhay Richardson, Sumit Kumar, Swastik Chikara and Shai Hope.

Chennai Super Kings: Ruturaj Gaikwad (captain), MS Dhoni (wicketkeeper), Moeen Ali, Deepak Chahar, Tushar Deshpande, Shivam Dubey, Rajvardhan Hangarkar, Ravindra Jadeja, Ajay Mandal, Mukesh Chaudhary, Ajinkya Rahano, Sheikh Rashid, Mitchell Santner, Simarjeet Singh, Nishant Sindhu. , Prashant Solanki, Mahesh Theekshana, Rachin Ravindra, Shadrul Thakur, Daryl Mitchell, Sameer Rizvi, Mustafizur Rahman, and Aravalli Avnish Rao (wk).