Chennai will be playing four of the next five games in Dubai and Fleming said it would be helpful to settle in and try and read conditions at one ground.
Images from the Indian Premier League match between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Chennai Super Kings, in Sharjah, on Friday.
As Ravindra Jadeja struck the winning runs, the entire CSK dugout erupted with joy.
After making impressive debuts in their respective openers, Rising Pune Supergiants and GujaratLions will test each others' strengths when the two new entrants clash in the Indian Premier League (IPL), in Rajkot on Thursday. The two teams feature a lot of faces from the suspended Chennai Super Kings and at least six players, who played in the same side till last year, will now be in opposite camps. Close friends and CSK teammates Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Suresh Raina will now be devising strategies as rival captains. Both have admitted that playing in a jersey other than 'yellow' has been very "emotional" but have promised to give their all for their new teams. The Dhoni-led Pune Supergiants were very convincing and dominant when they handed defending champions Mumbai Indians a nine-wicket drubbing. They did not even require their middle order, packed with Dhoni himself and players such as Steven Smith, to come out with the top-order delivering it for them comfortably.
Dwayne Bravo scored 66 from 36 deliveries as the West Indies beat defending champions India by seven wickets in the Super Eights of the World Twenty20 at Lord's on Friday.
Taking part in the tournament without three of their star players, Caribbean champions and 2009 edition finalists Trinidad and Tobago will open their Champions League Twenty20 campaign against another depleted Australian side Brisbane Heat in Ranchi.
Following Chennai Super Kings' win over Royal Challengers Bangalore, CSK skipper MS Dhoni hailed the young bowlers for their stupendous show in the death overs.
West Indies captain Dwayne Bravo has hit back at Marlon Samuels for claiming that he was not part of the ODI team's plan to abandon the troubled tour of India, saying that his team-mate was an 'interested party' and spoke 'vigorously' during the meetings he attended.
Bennett King is optimistic ahead of next week's first Test against South Africa, despite the contract dispute that has robbed him of seven players, including skipper Brian Lara.
A stunning hat-trick from Josh Hazlewood was not enough for Australia, as Darren Sammy led from the front with an unbeaten half-century to fashion a morale-boosting three-wicket win in a World Twenty20 warm-up match at Eden Gardens.
India's star cricketer Suresh Raina tied the nuptial knot with fiancee Priyanka in a private ceremony attended only by family members and close friends, at a posh hotel in New Delhi on Friday.
West Indies captain Brian Lara is one of seven senior players who will not be selected for the home series because of a sponsorship dispute.
Seven senior players will not be selected for the home series against South Africa and Pakistan because of a sponsorship dispute.\n
Glimpses from the Chennai Super Kings-Rajasthan Royals IPL 2023 game at the M A Chidambaram stadium in Chennai on Wednesday, April 12, 2023.
West Indies captain Darren Sammy laughed off Indian batsman Suresh Raina's claim that the big-hitting Caribbean cricketers cannot rotate the strike and dared the Indians to stop his batsmen from hitting sixes in Sunday's World Twenty20 match.
'We have those players who played recently here in the CPL, they (have) got that experience. We share that experience with the boys. But I think in ICC (events), you always expect something different.'
Mahendra Singh Dhoni led Chennai Super Kings to a five-wicket win against Sunrisers Hyderabad on Thursday. Folllowing are the statistical highlights from that Indian Premier League match played in Chennai.
While Robin Uthappa had scored a fifty in one of the games, the likes of Moeen Ali and Ambati Rayudu have failed to capitalise on their starts.
Punjab Kings are placed eighth while Chennai Super Kings occupy the penultimate slot in the 10-team IPL points table.
Australian batsman David Hussey was on Friday given the nod to play for Chennai Super Kings in place of the injured Dwayne Bravo by the Indian Premier League technical committee.
Images from the Indian Premier League match between Chennai Super Kings and Delhi Daredevils in Abu Dhabi, on Monday.
The first Test starts on March 31 in Guyana but West Indies will be without Lara and six other leading players because of a contract dispute.
Holders West Indies sailed into the World Twenty20 semi-finals after Dwayne Bravo's power-hitting and Samuel Badree's lethal spin bowling fashioned a comprehensive 84-run victory over 2009 champions Pakistan on Tuesday. A look at key statistics from the match.
Nine international cricketers, including Dwayne Bravo, Kieron Pollard and Brett Lee, have opted to play for their IPL frachisees instead of their home teams in the Champions League Twenty20 scheduled next month.
Kings XI Punjab's new captain Murli Vijay has termed left-arm spinner Axar Patel's bowling spell as 'incredible' during their stunning 23-run win over table toppers Gujarat Lions in an Indian Premier League match in Rajkot.
After registering a thrilling 20-run win over Mumbai Indians in the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021, Chennai Super Kings (CSK) Stephen Fleming hailed opening batsman Ruturaj Gaikwad for playing a match-winning 88-run knock.
CSK, LSG seek improvement in top-order batting after opening losses
Chennai Super Kings will be determined to erase their IPL 2020 nightmare when they failed to make it to the IPL play-offs for the first time.
It was Chris Gayle who suggested Dwayne Bravo to bowl a slower delivery to Yuvraj Singh in the end, revealed the West Indian captain
The West Indies pulled off a sensational victory in the second ODI and ended India's chasing streak of 17 wins.
West Indies batsman Darren Bravo will be sent home from the World Cup after failing to recover from a hamstring injury sustained in the second match of the campaign, a team spokesman said on Friday.
Chennai Super Kings batsman Suresh Raina applauded his team's batting for a great start and an equally good finish as it overhauled 185 runs scored by Titans in their Champions League Twenty20 tie in Ranchi.
Ali Khan will be the first player from the US to play in the world's most popular T20 league.
Chennai Super Kings bowling consultant Eric Simons heaped praise on Bangladesh pacer Mustafizur Rahman for executing plans perfectly and setting up a comfortable six-wicket victory over Royal Challengers Bengaluru in the IPL opener in Chennai on Friday.
Centuries by Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Dwayne Bravo helped break a world record on an otherwise dull fifth day of the drawn fourth and final Test.
Gayle's sixes got bigger, Watson played with a passion for Rajasthan Royals that is harder to spot when he plays for Australia, Mike Hussey made you wonder why he retired so soon, James Faulkner gave indications that he might seriously trouble England in the Ashes series, and Dwayne Bravo left you wondering if he bowls better than he bats, observes Purnendu Maji and Srinivas Bhogle.
The batting resources of West Indies' 'intimidating' team has reduced Dwayne Bravo's role to a specialist bowler.
Chennai Super Kings made heavy weather of a small chase before Ravindra Jadeja's blitzkrieg powered the visitors to a four-wicket win over Kolkata Knight Riders in a Pepsi Indian Premier League match in Kolkata on Saturday.
Images from the Indian Premier League match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Mumbai Indians in Kolkata on Monday.
Dwayne Bravo's century from only 65 balls couldn't prevent the West Indies from losing by six wickets.
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