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Chennai Super Kings vs Sunrisers Hyderabad: Who will win Rs.20 Cr crown?

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When: Sunday, 27 May 2018, 7:00 PM (IST)

Where: Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai

The Chennai Super Kings and Sunrisers Hyderabad will clash for the IPL Final 2018, fourth time this season, before one of them clinch the coveted IPL 2018 championship.

Sunrisers and the Super Kings, the top two teams will fight it out for the trophy but making it worth the watch today is that the entire Telugu film field including Mahesh Babu is rallying behind Sunrisers Hyderabad, especially the Afghan warrior Rashid Khan.

The Super Kings, recovering from near disaster in Qualifier 1 when they were in trouble with 92-7 but for the supperb saviour Faf du Plessis who delivered a match-winning score and winning by 2 wickets with 5 balls to spare.

Thanks to Rashid Khan, Sunrisers are in the final after the perfect match against KKR in Qualifier 2, winning strong support for the home team from every celebrity in Hyderabad.

Both CSK and SRH have proven batsmen and bowlers to stack at each other. CSK has been the best chasing team in the season with a 7-2 win-loss record, while SRH is the only team to have taken more than 100 wickets.

SRH also has an impressive bowling and economy rate, defending the pitch for a win. They have a 5-3 win-loss record this season.

So, the imminent question for millions of viewers glued to their TV sets today will be to toss who would win the match and the trophy. Needless to say, any prediction may go wrong at this stage as it is going to be a real battle ground.

Team Head to Head Stats:

Overall: Matches – 9, Chennai Super Kings won – 7, Sunrisers Hyderabad won – 2

In 2018: Matches – 3, Chennai Super Kings won – 3, Sunrisers Hyderabad won – 0.

Miscellaneous Facts:

Chennai Super Kings are making their seventh appearance in an IPL final, while Sunrisers will be playing in their second final.

CSK skipper MS Dhoni will be playing his 8th IPL final and he led CSK in 6 previous finals and was part of the Rising Pune Supergiant team briefly when it finished runner-up in 2017.

MS Dhoni requires to make 7 more runs today to make this IPL 2018 his most successful IPL season ever. He has scored 455 runs in 15 innings this season so far.

CSK have a 6-6 win-loss record in IPL matches at the Wankhede, while SRH is 1-4. interestingly, the team batting first has won 7 of the previous 10 IPL Finals.

The winning team gets the IPL 2018 championship, receives a purse of Rs. 20 Crore and the runner-up will get Rs. 12.5 Crore.

Squads:

Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH): Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Kane Williamson (captain), Manish Pandey, Rashid Khan Arman, Shikhar Dhawan, Wriddhiman Saha, Siddarth Kaul, Deepak Hooda, Syed Khaleel Ahmed, Sandeep Sharma, Carlos Brathwaite, Shakib Al Hasan, Yusuf Pathan, Shreevats Goswami, Mohammad Nabi, Chris Jordan, Basil Thampi, T Natarajan, Sachin Baby, Bipul Sharma, Syed Mehdi Hasan, Ricky Bhui, Tanmay Agarwal.

Chennai Super Kings (CSK): MS Dhoni (Captain), Ravindra Jadeja, Suresh Raina, Dwayne Bravo. Karn Sharma, Shane Watson, Shardul Thakur, Ambati Rayudu, Murali Vijay, Harbhajan Singh, Faf Du Plessis, Mark Wood, Sam Billings, Imran Tahir, Deepak Chahar, David Willey, Lungisani Ngidi, Asif K M, N Jagadeesan, Kanishk Seth, Monu Singh, Dhruv Shorey, Kshitiz Sharma, Chaitanya Bishnoi.

Mahesh Babu rallies behind Rashid Khan, IPL Final to be stormy today

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After Friday’s match of IPL, the 19-year-old Rashid Khan made a won a surprising star behind him and it is Mahesh Babu, the Telugu actor whose rare tweets are reckoned by millions of his fans.

Afghan cricketer Rashid Khan’s stunning performance for SunRisers Hyderabad to beat Kolkata Knight Riders by 14 runs to clinch the opportunity to play in the IPL 2018 final today has made the play worth watching for many but Mahesh Babu’s quick praise for the player has sent his fans into ecstasy.

Mahesh Babu tweeted, “Take a bow @rashidkhan_19… Whatta match by @SunRisers Can’t wait for Sunday!!! Congratulations to the whole team. Go #OrangeArmy #SRH.”

Surprised Rashid Khan replied immediately saying, “Thank you bro …watching your movies keenly.” The fact that despite being an Afghan, he too watches Mahesh Babu’s mostly Telugu films or sometimes dubbed into Hindi, has made many Mahesh Babu fans sit up and watch who the cricket star is.

Ever since the Indian Premier League(IPL) was bought by Sunrisers Hyderabad for Rs. 9 crore, Rashid has come under scanner for his performance and he proved the team managers right with his superb performance in every IPL match.

For the first time, Mahesh Babu has lent his support to home team. Otherwise, Venkatesh Daggubati and Sai Dharam Tej too have been strong supporters of the home team Sunrisers Hyderabad, which has won accolades for its performance from minister KTR or Taraka Ram, who is son of Telangana CM K Chandrashekhara Rao or KCR.

Dharam Tej tweeted:“#SRH Through to the finals of this years edition of IPL 2018 #IPL2018Qualifier Rashid Khan you beauty….. @SunRisers congratulations”. Soon he was followed by another actor Nithin who tweeted, “Rashid khan!! U beautyy!! Wat a suuperb inningss!! The game is on #SRH”

KTR, who missed the real drama never relented. He said:“Missed the game but glad that @SunRisers made it. Congratulations and good luck for the trophy Guys”.

Soon the social media was abuzz with the wish to confer Indian citizenship on Rashid though External Affairs Minister replied saying it is the Home Ministry’s prerogative. Back in Kabul, Afghan President Ashrad Ghanis tweeted: “Rashid reminds us what’s best about Afghanistan. He remains an asset to the cricketing world. No, we are not giving him away.”

There it is but today, he is going to be watched across the world by millions of cricket fans and Mahesh Babu admirers for the IPL Final being played in Mumbai, when Sunrisers Hyderabad take on Chennai Super Kings.