The Chennai Super Kings bounced back strongly after the loss in their opening game of the season against the Delhi Capitlas with a resounding win over the Punjab Kings.
Their opponent in the next game— Rajasthan Royals too will be coming off an impressive win over the Delhi Capitals and Super Kings all-rounder Sam Curran is expecting another fantastic game when the two dies will meet on Monday night.
He said that the CSK won their last game on the back of a complete team performance where the bowler led by Deepak Chahar bowled exceedingly well to contain Punjab Kings to 107 and followed by the batting group not allowing them to get back in the game.
“Looking ahead to Rajasthan, I think it will be a fantastic game. We got a great team and win in the last game and they also won their last game as well and so, it will be another great..fantastic game,” Curran said in a video posted by the franchise on its Twitter timeline.
“The game against the Punjab Kings was obviously a game where we showed how good a team we are. Deepak started off the game beautifully and the whole bowling group bowled fantastically well to restrict them to 107.”
Curran spoke very highly of Chahar who started with a bang and wiped out the top order of the Punjab Kings with the wickets of Mayank Agarwal, Chris Gayle and Deepak Hooda. Chahar finished with an astounding figure of 13/4 wickets from his quota of four overs.
“The second game showed why he is such a good bowler. Taking the wickets of mayank, gayle and hood as well. Fantastic four wickets for 17 runs is a great achievement. He showed some skills and hopefully, will be able to get some confidence and also give the team some confidence going into the next match against Rajasthan,” Curran added.
In the last eight matches played between them, no team has held an edge over the other and won four games each.
The yellow brigade was taken to the cleaner by the Royals on both the occasion they met last year and hence the Super Kings will be eager to settle the score come Monday, April 19.