Today Chennai Super Kings will face Kolkata Knight Riders in the Indian Premier League. The match will be played at MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai at 7.30 pm. The toss of the 22nd match of the 17th season will take place at 7 pm. This will be Chennai's fifth match in the 17th season. The team has won 2 out of 4 matches. At the same time, this will be the fourth match of Kolkata. The team has not lost a single match this season.
So far 29 matches have been played between the two teams in IPL. Chennai won 18 matches and Kolkata won 10 matches. A contest is being requested. The special thing is that Kolkata won its first title in 2012 by defeating CSK in the final. There were 10 matches between the two in Chepauk, out of which 7 were won by Chennai and 3 by Kolkata.
If the pitch of MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai has proved helpful for the spinners. It is a bit difficult to bat here. However, after the last season, runs have also started getting good here. It will be important to see whether the pitch against Kolkata will help the batting or the spinners. A total of 78 IPL matches have been played in Chennai so far. Teams batting in 47 matches and chasing in 31 matches won.
Probable playing eleven for both teams
-Chennai Super Kings: Ruturaj Gaikwad (captain), Rachin Ravindra, Ajinkya Rahane, Moeen Ali, Daryl Mitchell/Sameer Rizvi, Shivam Dubey, Ravindra Jadeja, MS Dhoni (wicketkeeper), Deepak Chahar, Tushar Deshpande/Mahish Tikshan and Maithish Pathirana.
Kolkata Knight Riders: Shreyas Iyer (captain), Phil Salt, Sunil Narine, Venkatesh Iyer, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Vaibhav Arora, Mitchell Starc, Harshit Rana and Varun Chakravarthy.