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Bengaluru vs Chennai at the start of IPL
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Bengaluru vs Chennai. What could be a more exciting match than this in the opening game of the Indian Premier League (IPL) this season? The new edition of IPL is going to start on Friday. The first match will be played in Chennai. The match will be defending champions Chennai Super Kings vs Royal Challengers Bangalore. Even though Dhoni will leave Chennai as a player, he will participate as a player.
Kohli, who has missed at least two months of international cricket, is back on the field once again. He missed the five-Test series against England due to the birth of his second child. Dhoni himself is about to return to the field after 10 months. After leading Chennai to a record-equalling fifth title last year, he had hinted that he would retire this season.
Royal Challengers captain Faf du Plessis has openly praised Dhoni. He said, "Dhoni is a great captain. I had the opportunity to play under him for a while. Some time spent in Chennai is very important for my playing career. That's when I learned how to lead, that too by watching Dhoni. I am very impressed with him.'' Perhaps the Bengaluru team will be influenced by their women players.
Only on Sunday, Bengaluru's women's team became the champions of the Women's IPL and in the process the title drought was broken. The current captain of the Indian cricket team, Rohit Sharma, has given the responsibility of the Mumbai Indians' leadership to Hardik Pandye. Mumbai is also a five-time winner. Hardik, who played for Gujarat Titans in 2022, led his team to the title that year. Last season, Gujarat was the runner-up.
This time he is back in Mumbai. All the times Mumbai have won the IPL title, Sharma was the captain. Mumbai has undergone a leadership change for the first time in 11 years. Shubman Gill will now take over the leadership of Gujarat in place of Hardik. Rishabh Pant, on the other hand, has been declared fit to play high-level cricket again. He has not played cricket since his car accident at the end of 2022.
22-year-old Yashasvi Jaiswal will be tasked with opening the innings of Rajasthan Royals along with Jas Buttler. Jaiswal scored a record 712 runs in the Test series against England. Australian bowlers Mitchell Starc and Pat Cummins proved to be the most expensive players in the player auction held last December. Starc is playing IPL for the first time since 2015. At that time he played for the Royal Challengers team.
प्रकाशित : चैत्र ९, २०८० ०७:२१
