🏏IPL 2025 - Match 67: GT vs CSK at Ahmedabad @ 3:30pm🏏 - Page 5

Time for the toss.

Karn: "One team trying to stay at top and other trying to avoid being at bottom. If the trend continues of qualifying teams losing then the race to top two will become spicier."

CSK won the toss and will bat first

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Lots of yellow in the audience.

Chennai Super Kings have won the toss and have opted to bat.

MS Dhoni: We will bat first. It looks nice and hard, will remain the same. It's quite hot, looks like a good track. It's surviving. Every year is a new challenge. It needs a lot of maintainance. Didn't trouble me enough when I was playing international cricket.

CSK team changes - Hooda in place of Ashwin

MS Dhoni: We will bat first. It looks nice and hard, will remain the same. It's quite hot, looks like a good track. It's surviving. Every year is a new challenge. It needs a lot of maintainance. Didn't trouble me enough when I was playing international cricket.

Chennai Super Kings have won the toss and have opted to bat

MS Dhoni: We will bat first. It looks nice and hard, will remain the same. It's quite hot, looks like a good track. It's surviving. Every year is a new challenge. It needs a lot of maintainance. Didn't trouble me enough when I was playing international cricket. Chennai is very nice, this is different heat, on the slower side. We are last in the table, we will still remain last, if win or lose. Need to enjoy our cricket. We have one change. Hooda is back.

GT changes - Gill feels it's a good toss to lose.

Rabada out. Coetzee in.

It's hot and seemingly sultry in Ahmedabad. CSK opt to bat. Dhoni says the pitch is "most likely" to remain the same, and the heat is a factor in his decision. His body "is surviving", he says. Dhoni says it's on drier side there, and announces one change: Hooda replaces Ashwin. Gill, meanwhile, is excited to be captain of both India and GT. He was anyway looking to bowl first, and believes it's going to a good wicket to bat on. One change for GT too: Coetzee in for Rabada.

Shubman Gill: Feels exciting to have that challenge, it's going to be an exciting series against England for us. In the last match we were in the game till the 16th or 17th over. We were looking to bowl first today. Looks a good wicket to bat on, it won't change much. We have one change, Gerald Coetzee comes in for Kagiso Rabada.