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[ad_1] Chennai Super Kings chose to bowl v Royal Challengers Bangalore play 7:54 Who's the more difficult batsman to bowl to? Who's better in chases? Sanjay Manjrekar and Shaun Tait discuss all that and more One team needed extra bowling resources, the other its talisman, and both shortcomings were addressed to give a marquee clash additional sheen. AB de Villiers recovered from viral fever to regain his spot in the Royal Challengers Bangalore XI while Chennai Super Kings handed out a debut to David Willey, the left-arm fast bowling allrounder from England. With his inclusion, MS Dhoni has seven specialist bowling options. Both captains said they wanted to chase even though the pitch started out dry and is likely to get drier as the sun beats down. Some green grass was left on it to perhaps slow down the deterioration. In any case, that suggests they are more than confident the batsmen in their line-ups can cope in case conditions become difficult, but not the bowlers. And the...

[ad_1] Toss : Kolkata Knight Riders chose to bowl v Chennai Super Kings Sunil Narine frustrated RCB with a chancy innings  BCCI Kolkata Knight Riders captain Dinesh Karthik stuck with the chasing trend and chose to bowl first against Chennai Super Kings in Kolkata. KKR made one change to the side that beat RCB in the previous game, bringing back Rinku Singh for Nitish Rana, suffering from a bad back. CSK captain MS Dhoni, while naming an unchanged team, also said he preferred to bowl first. "The only concern is that the outfield seems smaller," he said. "We need to work on death bowling and need to bowl to the field." CSK top the points table with six wins from eight games, while KKR have split their eight games, sitting fourth on the table. Kolkata Knight Riders : 1 Chris Lynn, 2 Sunil Narine, 3 Robin Uthappa, 4 Dinesh Karthik (capt & wk), 5 Shubman Gill, 6 Andre Russell, 7 Rinku Singh, 8 Piyush Chawla, 9 Kuldeep Yadav, 10 Shivam Mavi, 11 Mitchell Johnson Che...

[ad_1] How difficult is it for a team to stage a turnaround - defend two low totals in consecutive games after conceding 180-plus in two back-to-back matches before that? That, too, with a depleted pace contingent without spearhead Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Billy Stanlake? Ask Sandeep Sharma , and he'll decode Sunrisers Hyderabad's bowling might that humbled his former side Kings XI Punjab by 13 runs while defending 132. "All the bowlers are playing their roles very well which is why we've been able to defend two low totals. Our bowling unit is going to get a lot of confidence from these two wins," Sandeep said after the match. "We had bowled very well in the last game too [against Mumbai Indians], and our bowling unit is performing together, which is very important." Sandeep's role in that line-up, as he said, was to assess the pitch as soon as possible after opening the bowling and advise the rest of the bowlers. Varying the length between full and go...

[ad_1] Toss Rajasthan Royals chose to bowl v Delhi Daredevils Play 05:55 Last chance for Glenn Maxwell? Rajasthan Royals captain Ajinkya Rahane elected to bowl against Delhi Daredevils at Feroz Shah Kotla. Having won only two out of their eight matches so far, Daredevils need to win all their remaining six matches or at least five of them to make the playoffs. They brought in left-arm spinner Shahbaz Nadeem to replace legspinner Rahul Tewatia. Royals, on the other hand, made two changes. Allrounder Mahipal Lomror and legspinner Ish Sodhi were left out to accommodate Shreyas Gopal and D'Arcy Short respectively. Delhi Daredevils: 1 Colin Munro, 2 Prithvi Shaw, 3 Shreyas Iyer (capt), 4 Rishabh Pant (wk), 5 Glenn Maxwell, 6 Vijay Shankar, 7 Shahbaz Nadeem, 8 Liam Plunkett, 9 Amit Mishra, 10 Avesh Khan, 11 Trent Boult Rajasthan Royals: 1 Ajinkya Rahane (capt), 2 D'Arcy...

[ad_1] Pakistan will once more have the complete services of allrounder Mohammad Hafeez at their disposal, after his rejigged bowling action was cleared by the ICC. Hafeez, 37, was reported for a suspect action during an ODI against Sri Lanka in October, with an assessment at Loughborough University finding his action illegal - the third time that had happened in his career. After working on his action over the past few months, Hafeez was tested again at Loughborough University a fortnight ago, and the results today declared his bowling action to be legal once more. It will come as a major boost to Pakistan, who had relied heavily on Hafeez's all-round game in the months leading up to his action being found illegal, rising to the top of the T20I rankings, and winning the Champions Trophy in June last year. Hafeez's bowling was crucial in allowing Pakistan to field attacking bowling line-ups with more wicket-taking options without compromising on their batting depth. Hafeez h...