Former India cricketer turned veteran commentator Aakash Chopra has said that MS Dhoni’s Chennai Super Kings (CSK) have full chances of finishing at number one and reaching the final of the IPL 2023 as well. CSK moved to the top of the IPL 2023 table after registering a 49-run win over Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) at the Eden Gardens on Sunday. To everyone’s surprise, the win came because of Ajinkya Rahane who scored a stunning knock of 71 not out in just 29 balls to power CSK to 235/4.
In reply, the hosts KKR were restricted to 186/8 despite Jason Roy and Rinku Singh’s half-centuries. After CSK’s convincing win, Chopra said that it would be difficult to stop the four-time IPL title-winner.
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“Chennai have won five of their seven matches now. To qualify, you need to win eight games, so you need to win three out of seven matches and a lot of home games are left and they are winning away from home,” Aakash Chopra said on his YouTube channel. “They have defeated Mumbai in Mumbai, Bangalore at the Chinnaswamy and Kolkata in Kolkata. They have won three away matches. They have to play matches at home. They have full chances of finishing at No. 1 and the Qualifier 1 and Eliminator are at Chepauk, which means they will go to the final.”
However, Chennai Super Kings will play four out of seven remaining matches at home. Chopra also stated that CSK have figured out different roles with their limited resources and referred to CSK as the “father of all teams”.
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“They have given Dwayne Bravo’s role to Matheesha Pathirana, have got Maheesh Theekshana to bowl at the death and made Akash Singh a new-ball bowler. They have made Ajinkya Rahane a gun player and Shivam Dube doesn’t take the name of stopping. Chennai – how do you do it? You are a different beast altogether, like the father of all teams. When it comes to doing an amazing job with limited resources, that’s MS Dhoni for you,” Aakash Chopra concluded.
