IPL 2021 is in his final phase and in some days will get to know our champion. This time the play-offs are a bit interesting because we may witness new IPL winners like RCB or DC. Qualifier 1 is scheduled for today as CSK and DC go one-on-one in heat of Dubai. CSK team after losing back-to-back three matches and DC also came after losing a match to RCB. Both teams are undergone pressure and will surely make changes in their playing 11.
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CSK defeat against Punjab will you fact they’re playing 11 also. As CSK will surely make changes in playing 11 and now Gavaskar gave a match-winning formula for CSK ahead of qualifier one. Gavaskar wrote in Jagran that CSK will have to bring back Suresh Raina and drop Robin Uthappa.
Suresh Raina is back in playing 11
They are rumors and speculations about the return of Mr.IPL in playing 11. Suresh Raina definitely got a shot at qualifier one because he is a reliable name. Raina also carrying the burden of the middle order of CSK for the last 12 years. No doubt this IPL would go as good as Raina thought. In 12 matches Raina scored only 160 runs which were 54 highest. Gavaskar wrote, “Coming to experience, the Chennai team would be contemplating the return of Suresh Raina in the playing XI. Raina is the match-winner. Of course, in the last few years, he has struggled especially against the fast bowlers, but he has the ability to change the course of the match,” Gavaskar wrote in his column for Jagran.“Of course, Nortje, Rabada, and Avesh will test him, but it’s okay to take this chance as a chance to take the team to the finals. Delhi has defeated Chennai in both matches this season. So will the Chennai team prove lucky for the third time?”
Why to choose Suresh Raina in playing 11?
The answer is simple, Raina is carrying the burden of CSK for the last 12 years. In CSK won 3IPL trophies and Raina is an integral part in winning all those. He has been dropped after few matches and Robin Uthappa got a chance. Robin fails to deliver and I think it would be a disastrous decision to give Robin another chance. Raina is tagline Mr. IPL for his immense achievement throughout the years in IPL and international cricket.
He is the fourth-highest run-getter in IPL despite missing the last season. Raina played 205 IPL matches in which he scores 5528 runs with an average of 37runs. He plays with a strike rate of 138 and is the clean hitter of the bat. He hits 39 half-centuries and 1 century. These stats are enough to prove that why Suresh Raina is called Mr. IPL. Being the most senior player of the team after Mahendra Singh Dhoni he should definitely got a chance in playing 11 in today’s match.
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