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Chennai Super Kings (CSK) are back home searching for a much-needed win as they face the Sunrisers Hyderabad on Sunday night. Both teams enter the contest on the back of defeats in their previous encounters. The defending champions lost to Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) by 6 wickets at Ekana Stadium last week. On the other hand, Royal Challengers Bangalore defeated the Pat Cummins-led side by 35 runs in Hyderabad.

CSK vs SRH Live Score IPL 2024

Sunday’s clash will be crucial for the Yellow Army as they eye getting back into the top 4 on the points table. Ahead of the face-off, former captain MS Dhoni stole the show with his new hairdo. The legendary wicketkeeper-batter came this season with his vintage long hair, taking the internet by storm already. Before locking horns with Hyderabad, his new ninja ponytail seems to have caused quite a stir on social media once again.

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CSK vs SRH Toss Update:

Earlier, Sunrisers Hyderabad skipper Pat Cummins won the toss and elected to bowl against Chennai Super Kings at Chepauk. The visitors dropped Mayank Markande to have an extra batter in the line-up.

“We’re going to bowl. Absolutely, you can see why it’s pretty loud here. Boys are pretty pumped up. We’ve got Bhuvi who’s a very nice new ball bowler, I just fill in wherever required. We’re going with one extra batter, Markande misses out. We’ve always looked to bowl first, maybe dew comes into it later in the evening,” said Pat Cummins after winning the toss.

CSK skipper Ruturaj Gaikwad said he wasn’t happy to bat first, citing that the dew factor might be decisive in the second innings.

“Not really. Was hoping to win the toss, nothing we can control much. If we put up runs against them they’ll definitely be under pressure. We have just lost those clutch moments in the game, just 2-3 overs while batting when we couldn’t capitalise. Even with bowling, we haven’t gotten those starts in the powerplay and sometimes when we’ve got that we haven’t been able to finish off well,” Gaikwad said.

Playing XIs:

Chennai Super Kings: Ajinkya Rahane, Ruturaj Gaikwad (c), Daryl Mitchell, Moeen Ali, Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, MS Dhoni (w), Deepak Chahar, Tushar Deshpande, Mustafizur Rahman, Matheesha Pathirana.

Sunrisers Hyderabad: Abhishek Sharma, Travis Head, Aiden Markram, Heinrich Klaasen (w), Nitish Reddy, Abdul Samad, Shahbaz Ahmed, Pat Cummins (c), Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jaydev Unadkat, T Natarajan.