Playing XI
Venue Insights (Sharjah)
Highest Team Total : 228/4 By Delhi Against Kolkata In 2020.
Lowest Team Total : 121/10 By Hyderabad Against Punjab In 2014
Highest Individual Score : 106 By Mayank Agarwal (Punjab) Against Rajasthan In 2020
Best Bowling Figures : 4/13 By Lakshmipathy Balaji (Punjab) Against Hyderabad In 2014.
Highest Partnership : 183 By KL Rahul And Mayank Agarwal (Punjab) For 1st Wicket Against Rajasthan In 2020.
Win Rate Batting First : 60% (6 Won; 4 Lost)
Top Fantasy Picks - All Rounders
With 193 runs and 6 wickets this season, Stoinis is proving out to be one of the best all-rounders this season. The last time he played at Sharjah, he took 2 wickets and also scored 39 runs.
Jadeja is starting to gain his form back as in the last match against Hyderabad he scored 25 runs, took 1 wicket and 2 catches. Stat alert: In his last 5 matches against Delhi, Jadeja has: scored 64 runs and took 7 wickets.
Chennai identified Sam Curran's ability to bat, made him open and he did not disappoint either against Hyderabad scoring 31 runs. To go with that, he has taken 9 wickets which is the highest among Chennai bowlers this season.
Top Fantasy Picks - Bowlers
With 18 wickets in 8 matches, Rabada is sitting at top of the purple cap list. He is the first choice bowler to be included in your fantasy team.
In his 2 matches at Sharjah this season, Nortje has taken 4 wickets. Also, the last time he played against Chennai he had the figures of 2/21.
Shardul Thakur is on a wickets spree in his last 15 matches (total 26 wickets in these). This season itself in 5 matches he has picked up 8 wickets.
Top Fantasy Picks - Batsmen & Keepers
With 298 runs, Iyer is the leading run getter for Delhi this season. He plays spinner very well and thus can score runs quickly in the middle overs given that he bats at number 4 now after Pant’s absence.
Rayudu is one of the most underrated batsmen in the IPL. His scores in his last 3 matches: 41, 42 and 30. Thus he has started to chip in with runs regularly for Chennai.
Shikhar Dhawan has slowly started to gain his form back with back to back half-centuries. A look at his last 5 inns against Chennai: 35, 18, 19, 51 and 26.
Probable XI
Delhi : Prithvi Shaw, Shikhar Dhawan, Ajinkya Rahane, Shreyas Iyer(c), Alex Carey(wk), Marcus Stoinis, Axar Patel, Tushar Deshpande, Ravichandran Ashwin, Kagiso Rabada, Anrich Nortje
Chennai : Shane Watson, Faf du Plessis, Ambati Rayudu, MS Dhoni(wk/c), Ravindra Jadeja, Sam Curran, Dwayne Bravo, Deepak Chahar, Shardul Thakur, Piyush Chawla, Karn Sharma
Preview
Super Saturday's second match, Match 34, sees Chennai and Delhi squaring off against each other. When these two met earlier, Delhi were clinical with both bat and ball, handing a 44-run defeat to Chennai. And fortunes have pretty much been the same for both sides since. Delhi on an unstoppable upward march while Dhoni's men struggling to find their feet and their position in the points table. Delhi's march was halted by Mumbai but Iyer's men were back to winning ways when they contained a strong Rajasthan batting to seal their 6th win in 8 games. Meanwhile things have started to look upbeat for Chennai as well. They managed a good win against Hyderabad in their last game and with the expected slowing down of the tracks, it aids their USP well. The match is in Sharjah. Plenty of entertainment to look forward to when these two titans clash.
Delhi at Sharjah : Played 4, Won 3, Lost 1
Chennai at Sharjah : Played 2, Won 1, Lost 1
Toss : Chennai won the toss and elected to bat first.