🏆🏏IPL 2021 Match 60 --Final Innings Between CSK vs KKR 🏏🏆 - Page 2

Head-to-head:

CSK have beaten KKR in 16 out of the 24 clashes between the two sides. This includes 5 of their last six meetings, starting from 2019. For KKR however, one of those 16 came in the 2012 final - in Chepauk, no less.

What to Expect:

An urge to win the toss and bowl first. Nine of the 12 fixtures in Dubai have been won by the chasing side this season. Furthermore, all of KKR's six wins in UAE have come in run chases, while CSK's five losses throughout this season have come when they've had to set a target.

Neither team has a particular advantage at the venue, with both winning and losing 50 percent of their games there this season.

Originally posted by: SoniRSippu21

Hope for a thriller match

So you're already hoping for my heart attack Soni?

KKR chose to field.

They have won the first battle.

Cheers..

Chennai Super Kings: 1 Ruturaj Gaikwad, 2 Faf du Plessis, 3 Moeen Ali, 4 Robin Uthappa, 5 Ambati Rayudu, 6 Ravindra Jadeja, 7 MS Dhoni (capt, wk), 8 Dwayne Bravo, 9 Shardul Thakur, 10 Deepak Chahar, 11 Josh Hazlewood

Kolkata Knight Riders: 1 Venkatesh Iyer, 2 Shubman Gill, 3 Nitish Rana, 4 Rahul Tripathi, 5 Eoin Morgan (capt), 6 Dinesh Karthik (wk), 7 Shakib Al Hasan, 8 Sunil Narine, 9 Shivam Mavi, 10 Varun Chakravarthy, 11 Lockie Ferguson

Not that it matters.😊

Cheers..

Originally posted by: Bee222

So you're already hoping for my heart attack Soni?

😆😆 no but its csk vs kkr u expect it to be thriller.

Time for the all-important toss now. Just a moment before the captains take guard and the coin goes dancing in the air. So the news is that Knight Riders win the toss and bowl first.

Morgan says the wicket looks good but dry, with the dew expected to play a role as well. Knight Riders play the same team, so no Russell. Dhoni can't even hear what the presenter has to say, before letting us know that he would have bowled first as well. This is his 300th T20 as captain, and he feels good after having led both his country as well his franchise for this long.

Chennai Super Kings: 1 Ruturaj Gaikwad, 2 Faf du Plessis, 3 Moeen Ali, 4 Robin Uthappa, 5 Ambati Rayudu, 6 Ravindra Jadeja, 7 MS Dhoni (capt, wk), 8 Dwayne Bravo, 9 Shardul Thakur, 10 Deepak Chahar, 11 Josh Hazlewood

Kolkata Knight Riders: 1 Venkatesh Iyer, 2 Shubman Gill, 3 Nitish Rana, 4 Rahul Tripathi, 5 Eoin Morgan (capt), 6 Dinesh Karthik (wk), 7 Shakib Al Hasan, 8 Sunil Narine, 9 Shivam Mavi, 10 Varun Chakravarthy, 11 Lockie Ferguson

Kolkata Knight Riders have won the toss and have opted to field

Toss time...Morgan calls heads and heads it is...

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What They Said:

"It's the full team (effort). It was the first time we didn't qualify last year and emotions were quite high. But whatever games we had towards the end of last year, we made the most of it. A lot of batters made the most of that. That's the reason we have come back strongly. But credit goes to the support staff and everyone in the team. Without that character, we couldn't have come back like this." - MS Dhoni.

"Six off two [against DC in Q2], the odds were probably in favour of the bowling side, but Rahul Tripathi has done superbly well for us. It's a nice insight into our team culture - the young guys coming in feel free to express themselves. The backroom staff have created an environment for them to do this. With the squad we have, there's expectation. Hopefully we can implement all that we've strategised. We would like to keep going, playing against CSK, one of the best franchises in IPL history." - Eoin Morgan.

Faisal: "Both teams are making a comeback of sorts. If CSK win, they will go from a "finished" team from last year to a title-winning team the next. If KKR wins, then it could be termed as the "comeback of the season""

KKR won the toss 😔