Former India player turned veteran commentator Aakash Chopra is not sure whether the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) can have the upperhand over the SunRisers Hyderabad (SRH) batters’ issues against spin in their clash in Hyderabad on Friday, April 5 as well. However, SRH faced a seven-wicket defeat in their last game against the Gujarat Titans (GT).
In a video shared on his YouTube channel, Chopra said, “There is no doubt that Hyderabad are a powerhouse team. They hit a lot of sixes, there is no doubt about that as well. However, when they went to Gujarat, they were stopped in their tracks, because they have slight difficulties against spin. However, Chennai don’t bowl spin at all. You know that they don’t use spinners at all. In the last match, they used only one, that was Ravindra Jadeja, and I think he also bowled only two overs. They are not bowling spin and are only going with fast bowling.”
However, Ravindra Jadeja was the only spinner who played for CSK in their last two matches as well, bowling two overs against GT and his full quota against the Delhi Capitals (DC) as well. Meanwhile, Aakash Chopra picked Travis Head as the first SRH player he is eager to watch as well.
“Travis Head will be in focus once again and he will be my first player to watch out for because he is that kind of a player. When he played here last time, he smashed Mumbai. He was hitting sixes one after the other,” he shared.
However, Chopra also noted that Shahbaz will also be asked to bowl important overs in between for SRH. He further added that it will be interesting to see how the left-arm spinner is used against CSK.
“The second player I am thinking about is Pat Cummins because I feel he is a very important player on this pitch. He is tall, rolls his fingers over the ball, the side boundaries are decent-sized, and the bounce this pitch has forces you to hit sixes towards midwicket off his bowling, and they are not hit that easily. He has also now started bowling the difficult overs. Let’s talk about Shahbaz Ahmed. This could be a very important match for Shahbaz Ahmed because of the number at which he is batting. They are still expecting him to play the finishing role if Heinrich Klaasen’s bat doesn’t fire every time, and that’s a tough one. However, he played well against Gujarat,” Aakash Chopra concluded.
