Meanwhile, Deivarayan Muthu is soaking in the atmosphere at Chepauk and says: Hello, another humid evening at Chepauk. Thousands of fans wearing Dhoni's No.7 yellow jersey as usual, but there's also a bit of support for Rajasthan Royals, largely because of the presence of R Ashwin, the original son of the soil. Then, there's his captain Sanju Samson who had received the kind of reception that is usually reserved for Dhoni last September at Chepauk. RR also have M Ashwin who had started his IPL career by bowling big-turning wrong'uns to Mike Hussey and Dhoni at the CSK nets. Both the Ashwins are give it a good rip at training now. They had also bowled together at the nets two days out of the game. The black-soil pitch that was rolled out for the ODI series decider between India and Australia is likely to be used again today.
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