Since Suresh Raina withdrew from IPL 2020 due to personal reasons, will Super Kings be looking for a replacement and who can they bring in? You will have to be a local player, as your quota abroad is already full. ESPNcricinfo offers you the potential options of the three IPL champions.
Yusuf pathan
Previous match: Baroda v Tamil Nadu, February 4-6
Pathan, a match winner for Rajasthan Royals and Kolkata Knight Riders back in the day, turns 38 in November. As the Super Kings often value experience, Pathan has a lot of that, having appeared in almost 275 games in the shorter format: only Virat Kohli, Dinesh Karthik, MS Dhoni, Suresh Raina and Rohit Sharma have played more T20 than he has among the Super Kings. Indians. Pathan, however, does not have recent form on his side. In his most recent IPL season, with the Sunrisers Hyderabad in 2019, he had just 40 runs in eight innings with an average of 13.33 and a strike rate of 88.88. With the ball, he sent only one during that season before going unsold at the most recent auction.
Manoj Tiwary
Previous game: Bengal v Saurashtra, March 9-13
After finding no candidates in the last two IPL auctions, Tiwary focused on the comments. Is there a medium order space for him now on the Super Kings side? Tiwary will turn 35 this November and last played a T20 in November 2019, but he has worked with Dhoni and Super Kings head coach Stephen Fleming when they were all part of Rising Pune Supergiant. Besides a few cameos in the middle order, Tiwary was a sure gardener for them. In the 2017 IPL final at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad, where catching under the lights can be tricky, Dhoni put it in a straight line for Kieron Pollard and Tiwary took a smart catch at that position. Also, when needed, his round-arm darts can come in handy on the slow slopes of the UAE.
Dhruv shorey
Previous match: Delhi – Rajasthan, February 12-15
He might as well have the familiarity factor going for him, having been part of the Super Kings setup during their return as a title winner in 2018 and then second in 2019. The 28-year-old Delhi hitter is widely known as a red ball player on the Indian national circuit, but he can also pick up the pace in white ball cricket as he demonstrated during his consecutive half-century against Baroda and Bengal in Kolkata at the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy in 2018. Shorey too He’s an excellent fielder, both in the ring and deep, and was the first-choice substitute for an aging Super Kings team during his time there. At the 2019 IPL, he cheated as a long-stationed substitute to ditch Andre Russell and silence the Eden Gardens crowd.
Hanuma Vihari
Previous game: India v New Zealand, February 29-March 2
Vihari can see the new ball on top and repair entries in the middle order in test cricket, but he has yet to find his balance in T20 cricket. Having played 74 T20s, including stints at Sunrisers and Delhi Capitals, he has hit less than 115 and at best may be a mid-order failsafe rather than a mid-order racer that Raina was. during his prime at Super Kings. However, Roston Chase, a Vihari-style player, has done well on the grueling courts of Trinidad and has kept tickets together for Daren Sammy’s St Lucia Zouks in the current Caribbean Premier League. Releases in the UAE won’t be much different from those in the Caribbean, but can Vihari emulate Chase there?
Cheteshwar Pujara
Previous game: Saurashtra v Bengal, March 9-13
Okay, let’s go left field a bit here, but can Pujara, one of the first names on the India test team sheet, can be a last minute replacement at IPL 2020? He last played the league in 2014, when he made 125 runs over six innings, including five in the United Arab Emirates, with a strike rate of 100.80, for Kings XI Punjab. Pujara has not found any candidates in the IPL since then. However, he did hit a 61-hundred-ball, a first in T20 cricket, for Saurashtra in the Syed Mushtaq Ali trophy last year. “This century does not surprise me, but I am sure that many people do,” Pujara had told ESPNcricinfo at the time. In addition, he has been training in his own facility for over a month with members of the Saurashtra Ranji Trophy team, so he will be more prepared than some after the lockdown. Will you have the opportunity to surprise more people at the IPL?
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