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1st over: Chennai 4-0 (Smith 4, McCullum 0)
An over of spin to start with, courtesy of Karanveer Singh, and Smith celebrates by thwacking the first ball of the day over cover for four. The over improves considerably from there, with some genuine turn helping the ball to zip past the bat a couple of times, and five dots following.
Chennai are yet to tweet their team, but Kings XI line up like this:
#KXIP XI: M Vijay, V Sehwag, S Marsh, G Bailey, D Miller, W Saha, A Patel, M Johnson, K Singh, Anureet Singh, Sandeep Sharma #IPL#CSKvKXIP
Hello world!
I’ve literally just turned my attention from the day’s first game, and can thus tell you pretty much no more than: Chennai have won the toss and will bat first.
Simon will be here shortly. In the meantime, here’s a reminder of how Chennai fared in midweek against Royal Challengers Bangalore:
Chennai Super Kings grabbed their fourth win from five Indian Premier League matches after they beat Royal Challengers Bangalore by 27 runs at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium.
Bangalore raised some eyebrows with their team selection, after they chose to leave out Chris Gayle in order to make room for another overseas player, in this case the Australian left-arm seamer Mitchell Starc. Gayle managed only 10 runs in his last outing against Mumbai Indians but he scored 96 three days ago, so the decision to omit him – with no word about an injury to the opener – seemed strange.
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