CSK and SRH have met each other thrice in the ongoing edition of the league and each time CSK has been able to hold the edge over SRH, maintaining a 3-0 lead on them. Fleming praised Rayudu, who has scored 586 runs in 15 matches, for the kind of form he has displayed this season, helping CSK’s cause to win matches. He also pointed out that Rayudu has not been the only player that team has relied on and there have been many match winners for CSK, the latest of those match-winners being Faf du Plessis, who scored unbeaten 67 runs off 42 balls. He stressed the need of getting individual brilliance from players and felt that one good performance from any one player in his squad can actually turn the match in CSK's favour.

"Rayudu has been very good. He's been one of the number of players that have contributed to match-winning performances and there have been a few. To see him get some game time and grow in confidence and the way in which he has done it has been very rewarding from a coach's point of view," Fleming said at the press conference as quoted by India Today.

In the much awaited final on Sunday will mostly be a clash between Hyderabad's bowling and Chennai's batting. With the likes of Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Rashid Khan, and Siddarth Kaul, the orange army boasts of a superb bowling attack whereas the yellow brigade is full of star-studded batting line-up comprising Watson, Dhoni, Rayudu, Suresh Raina and others. All the batsmen have delivered for Chennai whenever the side needed it. But Fleming knows the threat that SRH possess and is aware of the fact that beating them for the fourth successive time this season won't be an easy task for CSK.