IPL 2022: Hazlewood comes in, Prabhudessai makes debut for RCB vs CSK

The Royal Challengers Bangalore brought Josh Hazlewood into the playing 11 against the Aussie’s former side – Chennai Super Kings – at the DY Patil Stadium, Navi Mumbai on Tuesday. Skipper Faf du Plessis also gave Suyash Prabhudessai his debut cap. 

RCB won the toss and chose to bowl against Ravindra Jadeja and co. 

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Explaining his decision to bowl first, du Plessis said that he is going with the ‘trend of the tournament’. The South African played for the CSK for the most part of te last decade. 

 “I know them, but they also know me very well. It’s like playing against my brothers today. We have been good with the ball, we need to improve with the last two overs. Josh Hazlewood is back, excited to see what he will do with the new ball. We also have an exciting youngster (Suyash Prabhudessai) coming in,” he said after winning the toss. 

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Chennai Super Kings on the other hand have lost all their games this season. After four matches, the four-time IPL champions find themselves at the bottom of the points table. 

“We would have bowled first as well, looking at the wicket. We’ll look to come here and play competitive cricket. The toss is not going our way, something that’s not going out way. As a team every game is important. We’ll try to fight it out and clinch our first win hopefully. We are going with the same team,” CSK skipper Ravindra Jadeja said at the toss. 

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Teams:

Royal Challengers Bangalore (Playing XI): Faf du Plessis(c), Anuj Rawat, Virat Kohli, Glenn Maxwell, Dinesh Karthik(w), Shahbaz Ahmed, Wanindu Hasaranga, Josh Hazlewood, Mohammed Siraj, Suyash Prabhudessai, Akash Deep

Chennai Super Kings (Playing XI): Robin Uthappa, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Moeen Ali, Ambati Rayudu, Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja(c), MS Dhoni(w), Dwayne Bravo, Chris Jordan, Maheesh Theekshana, Mukesh Choudhary