CSK vs GT IPL 2024 Highlights: Chennai thrash Gujarat by 63 runs

CSK vs GT IPL Live Score 2024, Chennai Super Kings vs Gujarat Titans: Ruturaj Gaikwad(c), Rachin Ravindra, Ajinkya Rahane, Daryl Mitchell, Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, Sameer Rizvi, MS Dhoni(w), Deepak Chahar, Tushar Deshpande, Mustafizur Rahman

CSK vs GT IPL Live Score 2024, Chennai Super Kings vs Gujarat Titans: Wriddhiman Saha(w), Shubman Gill(c), Azmatullah Omarzai, David Miller, Vijay Shankar, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, R Sai Kishore, Umesh Yadav, Mohit Sharma, Spencer Johnson

CSK vs GT IPL Live Score 2024, Chennai Super Kings vs Gujarat Titans: Shubman Gill has won the toss and Gujarat Titans bowl first.

CSK vs GT IPL Live Score 2024, Chennai Super Kings vs Gujarat Titans: Well it seems the CSK fans at the Chepauk Stadium will stand up and applaud Ravindra Jadeja at 7.38pm, or eight minutes after the start of the match, for what he did in the IPL final last year in the game between these two. Jadeja's shirt number is eight, in case you are wondering about the eighth minute logic.

CSK vs GT IPL Live Score 2024, Chennai Super Kings vs Gujarat Titans: David Miller has enjoyed a resurgence in his white ball career and that largely started with his extraordinary first season with GT in 2022. He is a particularly dangerous customer for CSK. Miller has 368 runs in 14 innings at a strike rate of 140.45 against the five-time champions

CSK vs GT IPL Live Score 2024, Chennai Super Kings vs Gujarat Titans: Australian wicketkeeper-batter Matthew Wade had not played in GT's season-opener. He won't be available for this one either as he was done playing the Sheffield Shield final only on March 24.

CSK vs GT IPL Live Score 2024, Chennai Super Kings vs Gujarat Titans: Chennai Super Kings likely Playing XI (If bowl first): Ruturaj Gaikwad(c), Rachin Ravindra, Ajinkya Rahane, Daryl Mitchell, Ravindra Jadeja, Sameer Rizvi, MS Dhoni(w), Deepak Chahar, Maheesh Theekshana, Mustafizur Rahman, Tushar Deshpande

Chennai Super Kings likely Playing XI (If bat first): Ruturaj Gaikwad(c), Rachin Ravindra, Ajinkya Rahane, Daryl Mitchell, Ravindra Jadeja, Shivam Dube, Sameer Rizvi, MS Dhoni(w), Deepak Chahar, Maheesh Theekshana, Tushar Deshpande

CSK vs GT IPL Live Score 2024, Chennai Super Kings vs Gujarat Titans: Gujarat Titans Likely Playing XI (If they bat first): Shubman Gill(c), Wriddhiman Saha(w), Sai Sudharsan, Vijay Shankar, David Miller, Azmatullah Omarzai, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Umesh Yadav, Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore, Spencer Johnson

Gujarat Titans Likely Playing XI (If they bowl first): Shubman Gill(c), Wriddhiman Saha(w), Vijay Shankar, David Miller, Azmatullah Omarzai, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Umesh Yadav, Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore, Spencer Johnson, Mohit Sharma

CSK vs GT IPL Live Score 2024, Chennai Super Kings vs Gujarat Titans: Gaikwad has been lethal for the Gujarat Titans. He has four 50-plus scores in five innings against GT at a strike rate of 146.85 and moreover, he has a penchant to take down Rashid Khan. However, he has struggled against left-arm pacers in the PowerPlay in the IPL, which is exactly what Spencer Johnson provides.

CSK vs GT IPL Live Score 2024, Chennai Super Kings vs Gujarat Titans: Sudharsan, Kishore and Shankar have been part of the Junior Super Kings, CSK's grassroots programme. And back in the day, Shahrukh used to be a ball boy at Chepauk for IPL matches. In contrast, CSK don't have a single local player in their main squad.

CSK vs GT IPL Live Score 2024, Chennai Super Kings vs Gujarat Titans: The Titans are playing in CSK's home but for many of the players in their squad, this might feel like a homecoming. Titans have as many as five Tamil Nadu players in their side - Sai Sudharsan, Sai Kishore, Vijay Shankar, Shahrukh Khan and Sandeep Warrier.

CSK vs GT IPL Live Score 2024, Chennai Super Kings vs Gujarat Titans: Rahane's strike rate in the first 10 balls between 2018 and 2020 was 85.10. Since the start of IPL 2023, it has been 158.30.

CSK vs GT IPL Live Score 2024, Chennai Super Kings vs Gujarat Titans: Ajinkya Rahane has been a different animal since joining CSK. He had a horrid time this year with the bat in the Ranji Trophy, and his Mumbai team went on to win the title despite that, but he ensured that CSK's run rate did not come down in the game against MI, scoring 27 in 19 balls, which indicates that his poor red-ball form might not really have much of an effect in the IPL.

CSK vs GT IPL Live Score 2024, Chennai Super Kings vs Gujarat Titans: Well what can we say about the last time these two sides played. Well, it decided the 2023 IPL title, to put it mildly. It was a two-day match, first of all, with rains in Ahmedabad forcing the match into the reserve day. Sai Sudharsan scored 96 in 47 balls while Wriddhiman Saha scored 54 in 39 as GT scored 214/4 batting first. Then came the rain, and it didn't go away any time soon. The problem was that there was no reserve day, because that WAS the reserve day, the game had been postponed the previous day due to incessant rains. Finally, at around 11.30pm, it was declared that the match had been reduced to 15 overs a side and CSK needed 171 to win. The chase eventually started at 12.05am, which meant that the match technically went into a third day. It all boiled down to CSK needing 10 to win off the last two with Mohit Sharma having given away just three runs of the first four balls of the last over. Jadeja ended up smashing the fifth ball for a six and the sixth for a four and CSK won their fifth title in the most utterly ridiculosly dramatic fashion.

CSK vs GT IPL Live Score 2024, Chennai Super Kings vs Gujarat Titans: Rashid is GT's most potent weapon but today, CSK's captain could neutralise that threat. Ruturaj Gaikwad has scored 95 runs off 60 balls in seven innings at an average of 47.5, and a strike rate of 158.3. Only Sanju Samson (111) has scored more runs than Gaikwad against Rashid in the IPL.

CSK vs GT IPL Live Score 2024, Chennai Super Kings vs Gujarat Titans: Rashid Khan may not have picked any wickets in that match against the Mumbai Indians but he gave just 23 runs away in his four overs, which went a long way in GT successfully defending 169.

CSK vs GT IPL Live Score 2024, Chennai Super Kings vs Gujarat Titans: Both teams had rather emotionally charged matches to start their season with. While CSK faced RCB, which is always a big feisty encounter, GT faced MI, led by their former captain Hardik Pandya and the fans made their feelings about him clear throughout the game. CSK won their game by six wickets, GT won it by six runs.

CSK vs GT IPL Live Score 2024, Chennai Super Kings vs Gujarat Titans: Wriddhiman Saha(w), Shubman Gill(c), Sai Sudharsan, Azmatullah Omarzai, David Miller, Vijay Shankar, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Umesh Yadav, Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore, Spencer Johnson, Mohit Sharma, Sharath BR, Abhinav Manohar, Noor Ahmad, Manav Suthar, Matthew Wade, Kane Williamson, Shahrukh Khan, Joshua Little, Darshan Nalkande, Kartik Tyagi, Sushant Mishra, Sandeep Warrier, Jayant Yadav

CSK vs GT IPL Live Score 2024, Chennai Super Kings vs Gujarat Titans: Ruturaj Gaikwad(c), Rachin Ravindra, Ajinkya Rahane, Daryl Mitchell, Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, Sameer Rizvi, MS Dhoni(w), Deepak Chahar, Maheesh Theekshana, Mustafizur Rahman, Tushar Deshpande, Shardul Thakur, Shaik Rasheed, Moeen Ali, Nishant Sindhu, Mitchell Santner, Ajay Jadav Mandal, Prashant Solanki, Mukesh Choudhary, Simarjeet Singh, RS Hangargekar, Aravelly Avanish

CSK vs GT IPL Live Score 2024, Chennai Super Kings vs Gujarat Titans: It is going to be a tough task for the Titans to breach Chennai's fortress as the Chepauk is expected to be all Yellow once again. Skipper Shubman looked in decent touch in the powerplay against Mumbai Indians but he failed to convert the start into a big score. Titans are expected to play with the same XI from their last match for the Chennai challenge as tinkering with the winning combination might hurt them in the initial stage of the tournament.

CSK vs GT IPL Live Score 2024, Chennai Super Kings vs Gujarat Titans: Both teams have a quality bowling attack which was very well on display during their first matches of the season. Chennai have found a new weapon in Mustafizur Rahman who picked a four-fer against RCB. Meanwhile, they also have the likes of Deepak Chahar, Tushar Deshpande and Maheesh Theekshana in the supporting cast. While Gujarat Titans have the best spinner in the world - Rashid Khan. The newly recruits Umesh Yadav and Spencer Johnson also did well against MI alongside experienced Mohit Sharma.

CSK vs GT IPL Live Score 2024, Chennai Super Kings vs Gujarat Titans: Gujarat Titans have found a dependable batter in the middle-order - Sai Sudharsan. The southpaw rescued the Titans in the final of last season with a ferocious 96-run knock which many forgot as the result went in Chennai's favour. However, Sudharsan kept growing after that knock and performed exceedingly well in domestic and India-A cricket. His consistent performances opened doors for international cricket as he made his India debut on the South Africa tour last year. He was impressive on the tour with a couple of half-centuries in three matches.

CSK vs GT IPL Live Score 2024, Chennai Super Kings vs Gujarat Titans: Shivam Dube is expected to play as the Impact Player once again after he flourished in the role in the season opener against Royal Challengers Bangalore. Chennai have not used Dube the bowler much since he arrived in the franchise as they rely on his power-hitting abilities with the bat in the middle-order. Considering the team combination and the consistency which CSK always look for they won't tinker with their winning combination against Gujarat Titans. Dube scored 34 runs off 28 balls against RCB and the Yellow Army would expect him to replicate another match-winning performance.

CSK vs GT IPL Live Score 2024, Chennai Super Kings vs Gujarat Titans: The left-handed Bangladesh pacer produced a scintillating performance with the ball in the season opener against Royal Challengers. He picked a four-fer and like many others in the past, it is highly likely that he has finally a perfect franchise - CSK to create a legacy in the Indian Premier League. Mustafizur has represented Sunrisers Hyderabad, Mumbai Indians and Delhi Capitals in the past but he failed to find his rhythm there the start he got in the Yellow outfit might change everything for him in the IPL.

CSK vs GT IPL Live Score 2024, Chennai Super Kings vs Gujarat Titans: Ashish Nehra and Shubman Gill will look to take revenge for the heartbreaking defeat in last season's finale. A lot has changed in the Titans camp since the last year - notably the departure of then-captain Hardik Pandya. Mohammed Shami, who was the leading wicket-taker last season, is also missing this year due to injury. However, the Titans are not looking to back down from the challenge as they have already beaten Mumbai Indians in their opening match to mark a new era under Shubman Gill's captaincy and the next in sight for them are defending champions CSK.