CSK
IPL 2023: The 16th season of IPL has started from today. MS Dhoni’s Chennai Super Kings will be up against Hardik Pandya’s Gujarat Titans in the first match. The CSK team, which was at number 9 in the points table last season, will try to win its fifth title this year. But even before the start of the season, some players of this team got injured. In such a situation, in the first match, two players have got a chance to debut from the CSK team.
These 2 players will play for CSK for the first time
In the very first match of IPL, two new players will be seen playing for CSK. One name in this is that of England’s Test captain and lethal all-rounder Ben Stokes. The other player is Indian young all-rounder Rajvardhan Hangergekar. Hangekar is also making his IPL debut in this match. Whereas Stokes played his last match in IPL 2021.
Hangekar did wonders in Under-19
Please tell that in 2022, the Indian team won the Under-19 World Cup. In that tournament, Hangekar took a lot of wickets with the ball along with hitting long sixes with the bat. This player was included by the CSK team in the mega auction last year. But he got a chance to play after a year. Whereas Stokes was playing for Rajasthan for the last several years, but this time CSK included him in their team for 16.25 crores.
Playing 11 of CSK
Devon Conway, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ben Stokes, Ambati Rayudu, Moeen Ali, Shivam Dube, MS Dhoni (c/wk), Ravindra Jadeja, Mitchell Santner, Deepak Chahar, Rajvardhan Hangergekar
Gujarat playing 11
Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Shubman Gill, Kane Williamson, Hardik Pandya (c), Vijay Shankar, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Mohammed Shami, Joshua Little, Yash Dayal, Alzarri Joseph