IPL's fierce rivals Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians will witness a thrilling cricket match on April 20. However, before that, news has come out that rubs salt in Chennai's wounds. After captain Rituraj Gaikwad, another player from the team has been ruled out due to injury. Due to this, Chennai, which is already struggling with poor form, has a big challenge ahead of them.
This season of IPL has been very bad for the Chennai team. Chennai's team is at the bottom of the points table. They have been able to win only two out of seven matches. Similarly, Chennai's Gurjanpreet has been ruled out of the team due to injury. Another player has been included in the team in his place.
Young batsman Devald Brevis, known as 'Baby AB', was given a chance in place of Gurjanpreet Singh. Chennai signed him for Rs 2 crore 20 lakh. Devald is considered one of the explosive batsmen in the world. He has scored a total of 1,787 runs in the 81 T20 matches he has played so far. The Chennai team will expect good performance from him.
Dewald has played 10 IPL matches so far. Meanwhile, while playing for Mumbai Indians in 2022, he scored 161 runs in 7 matches at an average of 23. After that, he did not get a chance to play a single match in 2023. While playing for Mumbai last season, he scored 69 runs in 3 matches. Talking about Dewald's IPL career, he has scored a total of 230 runs in 10 matches. Although the Chennai team has selected Dewald in place of Gurnajpreet, it will be important to see if he gets a chance in the playing XI.