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The big news over the weekend was Kane Williamson has been ruled out of IPL 2023 with right knee injury he sustained in Titan’s first match. Wishing him a speedy recovery.

Last Matches Summary

Match 4 - Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Rajasthan Royals

Buttler started the game as if he hasn’t left India and continued with his 2022 form, while Jaiswal and Samson knocks enabled RR to post a big total. Boult had a dream opening with 2 wickets in 1st over and Chahal made a huge dent in SRH chances with his 4 wickets. Overall a dominant performance by RR. I may be sounding biased here, well I am, RR is my home team 😀 

Brief Score: Rajasthan Royals (Sanju Samson 55, Jos Buttler/Yashasvi Jaiswal 54; T Natarajan 2/23) beat Sunrisers Hyderabad (Abdul Samad 32, Mayank Agarwal 27; Y Chahal 4/17) by 72 runs

Impact Player: Navdeep Saini replaced Yashasvi Jaiswal (RR) and Abdul Samad replaced Fazalhaq Farooqi (SRH)

Player of the Match: Jos Buttler

Match 5 - Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Mumbai Indians

MI made a decent score of 171, all credit to Tilak Varma for his amazing 84 not out but RCB opening pair of Kohli and Faf was just too good as they scored 148 runs by 15th over and RCB won in 17th over.

So RCB has a winning start of TATA IPL 2023 in their home ground.

Brief Score: Royal Challengers Bangalore (Virat Kohli 82, Faf du Plessis 73; Arshad Khan 1/28) beat Mumbai Indians (Tilak Varma 84*, Nehal Wadhera 21; Karn Sharma 2/32) by 8 wickets

Impact Player: Jason Behrendroff replaced Surya Kumar Yadav (MI) and no impact player for RCB

Player of the Match: Faf du Plessis

Today’s Match Preview

Match 4 - Chennai Super Kings vs Lucknow Super Giants

First home game for Chennai this season.

Team form IPL2023

Chennai Super Kings - L

Lucknow Super Giants - W

Chennai Super Kings Probable XI: 1 Ruturaj Gaikwad, 2 Devon Conway, 3 Ben Stokes, 4 Moeen Ali, 5 Ambati Rayudu, 6 Ravindra Jadeja, 7 Shivam Dube, 8 MS Dhoni (capt, wk), 9 Mitchell Santner, 10 Deepak Chahar, 11 Rajvardhan Hangargekar

Lucknow Super Giants Probable XI: 1 KL Rahul (capt & wk), 2 Kyle Mayers, 3 Deepak Hooda, 4 Nicholas Pooran, 5 Marcus Stoinis, 6 Ayush Badoni, 7 Krunal Pandya, 8 Avesh Khan, 9 Ravi Bishnoi, 10 Amit Mishra, 11 Mark Wood

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100th IPL game for Krunal Pandya 🫡 

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A fun fact

Why did the cricket team go to see a movie?

Because they heard it was a good pitch!

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Gaurav