Punjab Kings (PBKS) will take on the Chennai Super Kings(CSK) in match eight of the 2021 Indian Premier League (IPL) at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.
Head to head: (24 matches: PBKS 9 | CSK 15)
The two teams have played one another 24 times in the IPL with CSK winning 15 matches and PBKS winning 9.
CSK has won four of the last five matches played between two teams in the league.
Last IPL meeting:
PBKS (153/6 in 20 overs) lt to CSK (154/1 in 18.5 overs)
First led by South African pacer Lungi Ngidi's spell of 3-39 and then an unbeaten 62 by opener Ruturaj Gaikwad, the Chennai Super Kings defeated the Punjab Kings by nine wickets in the last meeting between these two teams in the IPL.
All-rounder Deepak Hooda was the best performer on the day for Punjab, making an unbeaten 30-ball 62.
In the other fixture, the Chennai Super Kings chased down a target of 179 runs set by the Punjab Kings with 10 wickets in hand.
Top performers in this fixture
| Highest run-getters | Runs scored |
| Suresh Raina (CSK 2008-2015, 2018-Present) | 711 |
| MS Dhoni (CSK 2008-2015, 2018-Present) | 525 |
| Faf du Plessis (CSK 2011-2015, 2018-Present) | 481 |
| Top-wicket takers | Wickets taken |
| Ravichandran Ashwin (CSK 2008-2015, PBKS 2018-2019, DC 2020-Present) | 18 |
| Dwayne Bravo (CSK 2011-2015, 2018-Present) | 14 |
| Albie Morkel (CSK 2008-2013) | 12 |
Stars from last season
| Highest run-getters | Runs scored |
| KL Rahul (PBKS 2018-Present) | 670 |
| Faf du Plessis (CSK 2008-2015, 2018-Present) | 449 |
| Mayank Agarwal (PBKS 2018-Present) | 424 |
| Top wicket-takers | Wickets taken |
| Mohammed Shami (PBKS 2018-Present) | 20 |
| Sam Curran (CSK 2020-Present) | 18 |
| Ravi Bishnoi (PBKS 2020-Present) | 13 |
Punjab Kings
Injured/Unavailable: Punjab have their full squad available
Tactics & Match-ups: "The field was set, the plan was to make Samson play wider, the plan was to bowl wide yorkers to Samson," Arshdeep had said after restricting the Rajasthan skipper in their opening game. Incidentally, the same bowler had employed the round the wicket angle and bowled into the wicket against a string of right-handers to run through Sunrisers Hyderabad's batting order in the end overs in the last IPL. The two spells indicate he is a quick learner and bowls to a field that is set in the death overs. In the upcoming game against CSK, he could run into a couple of left-handed batsmen - Sam Curran and Ravi Jadeja - lower down the order. It would be interesting to see the angle that he uses against the batting duo. On the batting front, one of the match-ups to watch out for is KL Rahul versus Deepak Chahar upfront. Despite Chahar possessing the ability to swing it both ways, he has never dismissed Rahul in the IPL.
Punjab look set to continue with the winning combination. Even though the think-tank could be tempted to bring in Chris Jordan for one out of Meredith or Richardson.
Probable XI: KL Rahul (c/wk), Mayank Agarwal, Chris Gayle, Deepak Hooda, Nicholas Pooran, Shahrukh Khan, Jhye Richardson, Murugan Ashwin, Riley Meredith, Mohammed Shami, Arshdeep Singh.
Chennai Super Kings:
Injured/Unavailable: CSK won't have the services of either of their overseas pacemen - Jason Behrendorff and Lungi Ngidi.
Tactics & Match-ups: Even though Chahar doesn't have the added advantage of possessing the left-arm angle, he would look to generate a bit of movement upfront at the Wankhede. One of the interesting match-ups is Faf du Plessis against Mohammed Shami. The former South Africa skipper has scored at a strike rate of 200 against Shami in the IPL. Shami tended to bowl a fuller length in the last IPL against du Plessis. The experienced campaigner duly took advantage of the fuller length deliveries by manufacturing room to tonk through the off-side or walking across the stumps to whip via the midwicket region with his bottom-handed grip coming into play. Another interesting point to note is Dwayne Bravo has dislodged Chris Gayle seven times in the T20s.
Probable XI: Ruturaj Gaikwad/Robin Uthappa, Faf du Plessis, Moeen Ali, Suresh Raina, Ambati Rayudu, Ravindra Jadeja, MS Dhoni (c, wk), Sam Curran, Dwayne Bravo, Shardul Thakur, Deepak Chahar.
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