Live report - CSK vs SRH: Can CSK get their season back on track?

3 Number of 20-plus run overs CSK have had this IPL. Even today SRH have done well to control damage whenever they have conceded boundaries in the first two deliveries. CSK 159 for 2 in 16. Gaikwad nearing another hundred.

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Daryl Mitchell has upped the scoring rate, and got to a maiden IPL fifty off 29 balls. However, Gaikwad has taken five after his fifty: adding eight off eight immediately after. CSK 123 for 1 in 13 overs. Can they get another 100 in the last seven?

Ruturaj Gaikwad's prolific season continues as he gets to a fifty in 27 balls. Like in the last game, he has scored at a higher rate than his team-mates. He brings up the fifty with a second six off Cummins' first over. CSK now 82 for 1 in nine overs. The other 27 balls have brought 31 runs including extras.

49 Number of legal balls it has taken CSK to hit their first six. Daryl Mitchell welcomes Pat Cummins to the bowling crease by off-driving a slower ball over mid-off. They are 73 for 1 in 8.1 overs.

0 Number of sixes hit by CSK in the first seven overs. Even in the last match they didn't hit a six in the first 10. CSK 59 for 1 in seven. They have hit 12 sixes in nine powerplays, SRH have 36 in eight.

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5.8 CSK's run-rate in the first two overs this IPL. They are the only team that has gone at under a run a ball in the first two overs. They end with 50 runs in the powerplay.

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Ajinkya Rahane is gone early again, trying to take Bhuvneshwar KKumar on. His 9 off 12 tonight takes his season tally to 170 runs at a strike-rate of just 123.18, which is not good enough for this high-scoring year.

CSK 30 for 1 after four overs.

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CSK's run-rate in the powerplay this IPL. Only LSG and GT have been slower. Here, too, they have made a cautious start, making only one boundary attempt in the first two overs, bowled by Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Nitish Reddy. They are 13 for 0 in two overs.

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1 Number of tosses CSK have won out of nine this IPL

Pat Cummins has called right, meaning CSK have lost eight tosses out of nine. As expected, SRH have opted to field with dew expected to play a big role in Chennai. This is a drier pitch than the usual Chennai pitch this year, according to Samuel Badree.

SRH have left out Mayank Markande for an extra batter.

Chennai Super Kings RD Gaikwad*, AM Rahane, DJ Mitchell, MM Ali, S Dube, RA Jadeja, MS Dhoni†, DL Chahar, TU Deshpande, Mustafizur Rahman, M Pathirana

Impact subs Sameer Rizvi, Shardul Thakur, Shaik Rasheed, Mitchell Santner, Rachin Ravindra

Sunrisers Hyderabad Abhishek Sharma, TM Head, AK Markram, H Klaasen†, K Nitish Kumar Reddy, Abdul Samad, Shahbaz Ahmed, PJ Cummins*, JD Unadkat, B Kumar, T Natarajan

Impact subs Umran Malik, Mayank Markande, Washington Sundar, Glenn Phillips, Anmolpreet Singh

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Ravindra Jadeja is doing Ravindra Jadeja things again. Too good to be left out but also leaving you wonder if CSK are getting the best out of him. Here's Alagappan Muthu on Jadeja.

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Match number 46. It's CSK hosting the most exciting team of this year, SRH. CSK are coming off a loss at home against LSG. They also lost the first match against SRH. So a lot of corrections to make for them.

Again dew will be a big factor as it was the last time around when Marcus Stoinis single-handedly won LSG the chase. How will the side losing the toss manage a par score? How will CSK manage to control the big guns of SRH? Stick around for that and more.