Chennai Super Kings vs Rajasthan Royals, 37th Match - Live Cricket Score, Commentary

Rayudu survives through a review!

Shreyas Gopal could have had two in two with Rayudu missing a googly. The on-field umpire was okay to send him off but with the third umpire brought in, Rayudu's stride comes to his rescue. The ball is tracked to be going down the legside.

WICKET: Curran's labored stay ends

A 25-ball 22 ends as Sam Curran is caught at long off against Shreyas Gopal. After being put on the backfoot early by Archer, Curran hardly got back his mojo. He finally departs in the 9th over with CSK having 53 on the board.

WICKET: Tyagi has the last laugh

There was a bit of a cat and mouse going on between one aged 19 and another aged 39. Watson pulled a boundary and then had a french cut going past the keeper off Tyagi. The pacer was not shy to have a quiet word in response, but soon gets his man with a full one angled in. Watson flicks straight to midwicket leaving CSK in a spot of bother.

WICKET: Archer gets Faf!

He might have roughed up the partner, but the wicket comes at the other end. Faf du Plessis tries to jump and guide a short ball through the offside but ends up chipping it above short cover where Buttler takes a good jumping catch. Archer 2-0-5-1!

The bouncer test for Curran

What did you expect from Jofra Archer? As predicted in our preview by Prakash G, the first few balls to Sam Curran has sharp and short. Jofra is buzzing!

TOSS: CSK opt to bat

Teams:

Rajasthan Royals - Rajpoot in; Unadkat out

(Playing XI): Robin Uthappa, Ben Stokes, Sanju Samson(w), Steven Smith(c), Jos Buttler, Rahul Tewatia, Jofra Archer, Riyan Parag, Shreyas Gopal, Ankit Rajpoot, Kartik Tyagi

Chennai Super Kings - Hazlewood, Chawla in; Bravo, Karn out

(Playing XI): Faf du Plessis, Sam Curran, Shane Watson, Ambati Rayudu, MS Dhoni(w/c), Ravindra Jadeja, Kedar Jadhav, Deepak Chahar, Piyush Chawla, Shardul Thakur, Josh Hazlewood

The lead up...

Now that the Super Over Sunday is done, anything from that is bound to look like a step down.

But there's still a lot of things to look forward to in this encounter. Both teams are at the bottom of the points table but are still in with a chance to make it to the top four. A win here is only going to keep them still in contention. So the stakes are high.

And there's also the small matter of MS Dhoni's 200th IPL game, if CSK were seeking any additional motivation...