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Quinton de Kock will fly to Chennai after South Africa's final ODI against Netherlands finishes on Sunday evening, which makes his participation for Monday highly unlikely. However, Super Giants won't sweat over it considering the way Kyle Mayers opened with a 38-ball 73 in their first game.
Similarly, Super Kings will be without Sisanda Magala, who's with the South Africa squad, and the Sri Lanka pair of Maheesh Theekshana and Matheesha Pathirana who are missing their first three games because of the ongoing T20Is in New Zealand
Toss and Impact Player strategy
Did Super Giants nail the use of the Impact Player in their first match? Batting first, they brought in K Gowtham after 19.5 overs when Ayush Badoni fell for 18 off seven, and Gowtham walked out to smash a six on the only ball he faced. Gowtham then bowled four overs for just 23 runs inspite of a lot of dew. They could do the same on Monday if batting first, and the reverse if they bowl first. Additionally, they may even pick an extra spinner in place of Jaydev Unadkat, who leaked 39 in three overs against Capitals and has a forgettable record against MS Dhoni and Super Kings both.
Probable bat-first 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
Probable bowl-first XI: 1 KL Rahul (capt & wk), 2 Kyle Mayers, 3 Deepak Hooda, 4 Nicholas Pooran, 5 Marcus Stoinis, 6 Krunal Pandya, 7 K Gowtham, 8 Avesh Khan, 9 Ravi Bishnoi, 10 Amit Mishra, 11 Mark Wood
Chennai Super Kings
Super Kings may want to rethink their strategy from the first game. Bringing in Tushar Deshpande for Ambati Rayudu after they finished batting was good thinking, but the bowler leaked 51 runs in just 3.2 overs. But without Magala, Theekshana and Pathirana their only experienced option instead of Deshpande is Simarjeet Singh because Dwaine Pretorius can't be brought in if they start with four overseas players. Knowing MS Dhoni, he may not make any changes at all.
Possible bat-first 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
Possible bowl-first XI: 1 Ruturaj Gaikwad, 2 Devon Conway, 3 Ben Stokes, 4 Moeen Ali, 5 Ravindra Jadeja, 6 Shivam Dube, 7 MS Dhoni (capt, wk), 8 Mitchell Santner, 9 Rajvardhan Hangargekar, 10 Deepak Chahar, 11 Simarjeet Singh/Tushar Deshpande
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