Indian Premier League on Sky Sports Cricket - today's action
Monday 30 April 2018 15:14, UK
Here's what's in store in the Indian Premier League today...
Today's game
High-flying Chennai Super Kings take on a Delhi Daredevils side buoyed by victory over Kolkata Knight Riders in new captain Shreyas Iyer's first match at the helm. Watch it from 3pm on Sky Sports Cricket.
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How are the teams doing?
Despite defeat at the hands of Mumbai Indians in their last outing, Chennai remain firmly embedded in the play-off places thanks to five wins in their first seven games. Captain MS Dhoni has played a huge part in helping them get over the line in a number of tight games, chasing some big totals.
It has been a very different story for Delhi, the win over KKR was just their second of the tournament and they may need to win six of their last seven games if they are to reach the play-offs. Ricky Ponting's men will hope they can use the positive momentum from the last match to propel themselves forward after a dismal start.
Ones to watch
An IPL stalwart, Suresh Raina once again showed his class with an unbeaten 75 for Chennai against Mumbai on Saturday, extending his lead over Virat Kohli as the leading run scorer in the competition's history. It was the left-hander's second half-century of IPL 11 and in this kind of form he is able to combine deft touch with immense power to devastating effect.
From an IPL veteran to a rookie, 18-year-old Delhi opener Prithvi Shaw has come into the side for their last two games and quickly shown why he has been tipped for big things. A quickfire 22 on debut was just a warm-up as he became the joint-youngest player to hit an IPL fifty in his second match. Any doubts that he might not be ready to play at this level vanished the moment he effortlessly flicked Mitchell Johnson over midwicket for six.
Which England players could feature?
Sam Billings has been a regular for Chennai but has struggled for form since his sparkling half-century early in the tournament and could find his place under threat, while Mark Wood hasn't featured since the opening match of the competition.
Meanwhile, Liam Plunkett has slotted into the Delhi team seamlessly since being introduced a couple of games ago. He followed up three wickets on his debut with another economical spell in his last match. After a blistering 91 not out in his first game of the tournament, Jason Roy made scores of five and one before he was dropped and the emergence of Shaw could make it that much more difficult for him to force his way back into the side.
Who is in the Sky Cricket studio?
We hear a lot about the importance of right-hand/ left-hand combinations in T20 cricket so we've drafted in England wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow and Mark Butcher - they'll join Matt Floyd in the studio.
Sky Sports will continue to show every IPL game live, so fans from all over can enjoy the best of Indian cricket.
