GT vs CSK Highlights IPL 2022: David Miller's unbeaten 94 leads Gujarat Titans to 3-wicket win over Chennai Super Kings

We are minutes away from toss in Match 29 of IPL 2022.

Shivam Dube is 66 runs away from surpassing Jos Buttler (272 runs) for the Orange Cap. With Hardik Pandya (226 runs) also closing in, will we see a new Orange Cap holder by the end of the game tonight?

With toss just around the corner, will we see any big changes in the XIs across both sides?

“If I were CSK I would bat first and hope to get a big score and defend, but I were GT I am going the complete opposite way... bowl first and restrict,” Nick Knight says.

At this point, this shouldn't even be a question. However, with teams batting first winning on three occasions out of five at this venue, will we finally see a captain drifting away from the trend of bowling first?

“The CSK bowlers need to pitch it up and get some swing and also need to take the pace off. The Gujarat Titans bowlers can hit the deck around back of a length and extract some help from the grass on the wicket,” reckons Knight on his pitch report.

“It's a used surface and there's a covering of grass. There's a bit of scarring on the surface. You need to hit the surface and let it work for you,” says Nick Knight.

“This is an important thing as a captain when your mind is clear, and you take right decisions, the result will take (care) by itself,” Rashid Khan said as he praised Pandya.

Gujarat Titans are currently at the top of the table and will likely be maintaining that position unless one of SRH and PBKS register a huge win in their game, currenly ongoing in Mumbai.

CSK, meanwhile, are ninth and climb a spot if they beat GT by a big margin.

Playing in his 2nd IPL game, Theekshana claimed a 4-fer vs RCB, out of his four wickets, two were in the first 6 overs.

Will see the off-break bowler early in the innings against someone like Shubman Gill, who has been quite aggressive at the start?

During the game against RCB, Mukesh Choudhary took a wicket but conceded 40 runs in merely three overs.

Will the CSK team management hand a debut cap for U-19 World Cup star Rajvardhan Hangargekar?

Ambati Rayudu may not be enjoying a fruitful run with a bat but he can reach a big feat during the game against Titans on Sunday night.

He is only 2 runs away from reaching 4000-mark in IPL. He will become the only 13th batter to reach the feat.

Gaikwad, Uthappa, Moeen, Dube, Rayudu, Jadeja (c), Dhoni (wk), Bravo, Theekshana, Hangargekar, Jordan

Gill, Wade/Gurbaz, Shankar/Sudharsan, Pandya (c), Miller, Manohar, Tewatia, Rashid, Ferguson, Shami, Dayal

Ruturaj Gaikwad, Robin Uthappa and Moeen Ali have all dominated Rashid Khan with the bat. However, with Gaikwad and Moeen not at their best so far, will Pandya take the punt on the leg-spinner to deliver an early couple of strikes?

Dwayne Bravo needs 5 more wickets to complete 150 T20 wickets for CSK (IPL + CLT20).

MS Dhoni was the saving grace of CSK's innings in the side's opening game against KKR, when he slammed an unbeaten fifty in 38 balls. While Dhoni's strike-rate has been a long-standing concern, the former CSK captain has remained unbeaten in three of his five appearances for the side, scoring 92 runs so far.

Robin Uthappa and Shivam Dube were the reasons behind CSK breaching the 200-run mark in their previous game against RCB. However, the rest of the batting order has struggled significantly in the season so far.

Moeen Ali (86 runs in four games), Ambati Rayudu (82 runs in five games), and Ravindra Jadeja (66 runs in five games) have failed to step up.

It may or may not be the additional pressure of leadership, but Jadeja's individual performances in the season have been quite indifferent so far.

In five matches, Jadeja has taken four wickets while scoring 66 runs in five innings.

Abhinav Manohar has impressed in his limited outings with the bat for the Titans so far. In four innings, Manohar remained unbeaten in one while scoring 94 runs at a brilliant strike rate of 162.06!

Can the 27-year-old India domestic star continue on his impressive outings?

While no team has opted to bat first in this season so far, the MCA Stadium in Pune has seen more results in favour of the teams batting first.

In the five matches at the venue, the teams batting first have won thrice.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni needs only two more sixes to surpass Suresh Raina for most sixes for the Chennai Super Kings.

Raina has 219 sixes for the franchise (IPL+CLT20).

Rashid Khan could be the third-fastest to this landmark (100 wickets in IPL) after Lasith Malinga (70 matches) and Bhuvneshwar Kumar (81). Rashid will be playing his 82nd IPL match.

Gujarat Titans' leading leg-spinner Rashid Khan is only one wicket away from registering 100 dismissals to his name in the Indian Premier League. 

He could become the 16th player to reach the feat.

Since conceding 25 runs in the penultimate over of the run-chase against Lucknow Super Giants that eventually resulted in the CSK's second-successive loss, Dube has been brilliant for the side.

While the Indian player hasn't bowled since, he smashed two fifties; remaining unbeaten on 95 in the side's last game against RCB.