CSK have full chances of ending at No.1 and go to IPL 2023 closing: Aakash Chopra

By India Today Sports Desk: Former India cricketer-turned-commentator Aakash Chopra acknowledged that MS Dhoni’s Chennai Super Kings (CSK) have full chances of ending at major and reaching the IPL 2023 closing.

CSK moved to the best of the IPL 2023 desk after securing a 49-run win over Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) on the Eden Gardens on Sunday. To everyone’s shock, the reworked man Ajinkya Rahane coloured Kolkata yellow alongside along with his lovely knock of 71 not out in merely 29 balls to power CSK to 235/4.

In reply, the hosts KKR have been restricted to 186/8 no matter Jason Roy and Rinku Singh’s fifties. After CSK’s convincing win, Chopra acknowledged that it might be troublesome to stop the four-time champions.

“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,” Chopra acknowledged 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.”

Chennai Super Kings will play 4 out of seven remaining matches at dwelling. Chopra added that CSK have found fully completely different roles with their restricted belongings and known as CSK the “father of all teams”.

“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,” Chopra acknowledged.

“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.”