Toss
MS Dhoni wins the toss and opts to bowl first. Sam Billings is out, Shane Watson is in for Chennai Super Kings. No changes for Sunrisers Hyderabad.
Preview
If Chennai Super Kings’ consistency over the past six weeks of the Vivo-IPL-11 is anything to go by, the six-time finalist and two-time winner should start favourite to win Qualifier-1 against Sunrisers Hyderabad at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Tuesday.
Only a fractional arithmetic difference in net run rate prevented the team in blazing yellow from taking the top slot in the points table.
It got the better of SRH in the first encounter by a mere four runs, but won the ‘home’ match at Pune hands down.
So the psychological advantage remains with the team that has been shepherded well by Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who has won 87 matches for his first and favourite team in the league.
The legion of Chennai fans would be tempted to put down their team’s performance as remarkable. Read the full preview.
