With lower than per week left for the beginning of the Indian Premier League, Defending champions Chennai Super Kings (CSK) have acquired an enormous blow forward of their opening recreation towards Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) on March 22. According to a report in Newz9, star pacer Matheesha Patirana is ready to be sidelined for 4 to 5 weeks as a consequence of an hamstring damage. Pathirana has been out of motion since he picked up a niggle through the second T20I towards Bangladesh at Sylhet on March 6 and left the sector with out finishing his spell.
Pathirana performed a giant position in CSK’s title march within the earlier IPL, grabbing 19 wickets from 12 matches.
“The Grade 1 hamstring typically takes nearly two weeks to recover fully. So, it remains to be seen when Pathirana can join the team, and it is hard to tell at this stage whether he will be available for the initial couple of matches,” an IPL supply had informed PTI.
CSK suffered an damage blow earlier than the start of the season as New Zealand opener Devon Conway is anticipated to overlook at the least the primary half of the match after present process thumb surgical procedure. Conways sustained a blow on his finger throughout New Zealand’s third T20I towards Australia.
CSK will kick off their marketing campaign towards RCB within the first recreation of the IPL 2024, at Chepauk, on March 22.
CSK IPL Squad: MS Dhoni (C), Moeen Ali, Deepak Chahar, Tushar Deshpande, Shivam Dube, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Ravindra Jadeja, Ajay Mandal, Mukesh Choudhary, Matheesha Pathirana, Ajinkya Rahane, Shaik Rasheed, Mitchell Santner, Simarjeet Singh, Nishant Sindhu, Prashant Solanki, Maheesh Theekshana, Rachin Ravindra, Shardul Thakur, Daryl Mitchell, Sameer Rizvi, Mustafizur Rahman, Avanish Rao Aravelly.
(With ANI Inputs)
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