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Chennai Super Kings suffered a large stroke up of the IPL 2026, with Nathan Ellis acceptable to beryllium ruled retired of the competition. The 31-year-old Australian accelerated bowler has suffered a hamstring wounded and won’t retrieve successful time.
“It is simply a large stroke for us. Ellis is simply a important bowler, particularly successful the decease overs. We are looking astatine replacements,” said CSK CEO K.S. Viswanthan to The Hindu connected Thursday during an lawsuit to denote Kauvery Hospitals arsenic an authoritative spouse of the team.
The nonaccomplishment of Ellis could unit a large rethink of plans for the Ruturaj Gaikwad-led outfit.
Since 2022, the squad had relied connected Matheesha Pathirana arsenic the death-overs specialist, but released the Sri Lankan pacer aft a disappointing run past year.
Meanwhile, Viswanathan besides said that the overseas recruits volition articulation the campy successful the adjacent fewer days. He said the caller West Asia crisis, which has affected large hose hubs successful the UAE and Qatar, hasn’t importantly affected the question plans of their overseas recruits.
Noor Ahmad has already arrived, portion Jamie Overton was expected to scope Chennai by Thursday tonight.
The likes of Dewald Brevis, Matt Henry, Zack Foulkes and Matthew Short volition articulation by March 22, portion Akeal Hosein volition articulation connected the 25th.
Meanwhile, Sanju Samson, the prima of India’s victorious T20 World Cup campaign, arrived successful the metropolis connected Thursday to articulation the pre-season camp.
The five-time champion made 1 of the biggest commercialized deals successful the IPL past twelvemonth erstwhile it traded successful Samson from Rajasthan Royals for Ravindra Jadeja and Sam Curran.
The Super Kings, including their prima subordinate M.S. Dhoni, person been grooming successful the metropolis since March 1, initially astatine its High Performance Centre and presently astatine the MAC Stadium. They could besides person an intra-squad crippled connected March 23.
