New Delhi, April 18: Hosts Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) after winning toss, elected to field fist against Chennai Super Kings (CSK) in the 34th match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) at the Ekana Stadium, here on Friday.
LSG have included New Zealand fast bowler Matt Henry in place of Shamar Joseph.
Chennai Super Kings had a couple of changes too. England spin bowling all-rounder Moeen Ali was included in the playing XI in place of Daryl Mitchell. CSK also included fit again right arm pacer Deepak Chahar in their XI, in place of off-colour Shardul Thakur.
Squads:
Lucknow Super Giants XI: Quinton de Kock, KL Rahul (Captain and wicket-keeper), Marcus Stoinis, Deepak Hooda, Nicholas Pooran, Ayush Badoni, Krunal Pandya, Matt Henry, Ravi Bishnoi, Mohsin Khan, and Yash Thakur
Impact Substitutes: Arshin Kulkarni, Krishnappa Gowtham, Yudhvir Singh, M Siddharth and Arshad KHan.
Chennai Super Kings XI: Ruturaj Gaikwad (Captain), Rachin Ravindra, Ajinkya Rahane, Moeen Ali, Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, M S Dhoni (wicket-keeper), Deepak Chahar, Tushar Deshpande, Mustafizur Rahman and M Pathirana.
Impact Substitutes: Sameer Rizvi, Shardul Thakur, Shaik Rasheed, Nishant Sindhu and Mitchell Santner.
