Why are Mustafizur Rahman and Matheesha Pathirana not playing IPL 2024 Match 53 between PBKS vs CSK?
PBKS won the toss and elected to bowl first in sunny Dharamsala.
Punjab Kings (PBKS) are clashing with the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) in match 53 of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 at the HPCA Stadium in Dharamsala on Sunday, May 5. It is an afternoon game and the toss was won by the PBKS skipper Sam Curran who decided to bowl first.
Curran shared that they were going into this game without making any changes to their previous match's XI. He believed that the conditions will not change much for the duration of the game and so he decided to chase on this high-altitude ground.
"We're going to bowl. Day game, try and see how it plays and chase it down. We've got the same team. We've had two really good wins with the same team. Conditions should be fairly even throughout, it's about batting, bowling and fielding well," said Curran at the toss.
On the other hand, Ruturaj Gaikwad revealed that Mustafizur Rahman has been replaced with Mitchell Santner as the Bangladeshi pacer has gone back home for national duties. Matheesha Pathirana continues to miss being in the Playing XI. He had also missed the previous match due to a niggle and the word has just come in that he has returned home to recover from a hamstring injury.
"Chennai Super Kings pacer Matheesha Pathirana is nursing a hamstring injury and will be returning to Sri Lanka for further recovery," said CSK in their press release.
Meanwhile, Gaikwad lost another toss, 10 in 11 matches, but seemed unfazed by it at the toss.
"We've just stuck to our process and doing little things right. We don't look at the track record of the opposition, we focus on ourselves and see what we can do right. This season there have been a lot of injuries, flus and forced changes so we've had to tinker with our team. I'd say losing 10 tosses but winning five games is a positive," said Gaikwad.
Playing XIs -
Punjab Kings: Jonny Bairstow, Rilee Rossouw, Shashank Singh, Sam Curran (c), Jitesh Sharma (wk), Ashutosh Sharma, Harpreet Brar, Kagiso Rabada, Rahul Chahar, Harshal Patel, Arshdeep Singh
Impact Players: Prabhsimran Singh, Harpreet Bhatia, Tanay Thyagarajan, Vidwath Kaverappa, Rishi Dhawan
Chennai Super Kings: Ruturaj Gaikwad (c), Ajinkya Rahane, Daryl Mitchell, Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, Moeen Ali, MS Dhoni (wk), Mitchell Santner, Shardul Thakur, Tushar Deshpande, Richard Gleeson
Impact Players: Sameer Rizvi, Mukesh Choudhary, Simarjeet Singh, Shaik Rasheed, Prashant Solanki
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