NEW DELHI: Delhi Capitals captain Axar Patel won the toss and elected to bat first against Chennai Super Kings (CSK) in their IPL match at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi on Tuesday.The big boost for DC bowling was South African pacer Lungi Ngidi, who missed several matches due to a head injury sustained during the home match against Punjab Kings on 25 April.
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Justin Langer finds positives in LSG defeat, praises Nicholas Pooran and backs Rishabh PantOn the other hand, CSK have brought in Akeal Hosein and Gurjapneet Singh to tweak their combination due to Ramakrishna Ghosh’s injury.”“We bat first. I think the surface looks good and we feel it’s a very good pitch. Maybe it can slow down a bit in the second innings, so I’d like to give that advantage to our bowlers. The way the tournament is going, it’s a very important game. But at the same time, it’s more important to focus on how you play extra. You can’t think about what we had on us – the points.” discuss as a team, we want to play good cricket and the points will take care of themselves, we have lost some close matches but if you look at the season as a whole, I am happy with the wins and the performances, but if we talk about the cricket, I am very happy with the batting and bowling of the boys, if we were better in Ndi Jamieson’s position,” Axar Patel said at the toss.CSK captain Ruturaj Gaikwad said, “We wanted to bowl first but the pitch looks a bit dry so I don’t think it will change much. So batting or bowling first won’t make much of a difference. (On team atmosphere) There have been some positive signs in the last 2-3 matches. Even though we haven’t won every match we have good positives, all three matches have improved since our tournament. We are doing really well and the batting is coming together slowly, we want this to carry the momentum into the last stage of the tournament, we are really happy to have entered this game and therefore we want to start again and start well.Teams:Chennai Super Kings (Playing XI): Sanju Samson (w), Ruturaj Gaikwad (c), Urvil Patel, Kartik Sharma, Dewald Brevis, Jamie Overton, Akeal Hosein, Noor Ahmad, Anshul Kamboj, Mukesh Choudhary, Gurjapneet SinghCapital Delhi (Playing
