Wednesday , December 25 2024

If Chennai wants to avoid its third defeat, then these Kolkata players will have to be careful

Chennai Super Kings will face Kolkata Knight Riders today in the 22nd match of IPL 2024. In this match to be held at MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai, Shreyas Iyer would like to hit the winning four while Ruturaj Gaikwad would like to avoid the third defeat. CSK has lost its last 2 matches. Before this the team had won its first 2 matches. If Chennai wants to avoid a hat-trick of defeats, then it will have to control the three players of Kolkata. Which includes Sunil Narayan, Andre Russell and Venkatesh Iyer.

Sunil Narayan

Kolkata Knight Riders opening batsman Sunil Narine is seen in a different color this season. He is continuously giving good starts to his team. Narine, who scored 2 runs in the first match against Sunrisers Hyderabad, played stormy innings in the next 2 matches. Narine played aggressive innings of 47 runs on 22 balls against Royal Challengers Bangalore and 85 runs on 39 balls against Delhi Capitals. He was chosen player of the match in both the matches.

andre russell

Kolkata's top order is giving a good start to the team. After this, Andre Russell is batting brilliantly and is increasing the team's score tremendously. Along with batting, he is also contributing in bowling. Russell played an unbeaten inning of 64 runs against SRH and 41 runs against Delhi Capitals. Apart from this, it won 2-2 matches against Hyderabad-Bangalore and 1 match against Delhi.

Venkatesh Iyer

Iyer has scored only one half-century so far in IPL 2024. However, this can prove dangerous at any time. He scored 7 runs against SRH, 50 against RCB and 5 not out against Delhi. He has not got any success so far this season.