Chennai, April 8: Winning the toss, Chennai Super Kings (CSK) opted to field first against Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in the 22nd match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 at the MA Chidambaram Stadium, here on Monday.
Chennai had to leave out pacers duo of Matheesha Pathirana and Deepak Chahar due to injury. However, they brought back fast bowlers Mustafizur Rahman and Shardul Thakur in their XI.
Squads:
Kolkata Knight Riders XI: Shreyas Iyer (Captain), Philip Salt (wicket-keeper), Sunil Narine, Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Mitchell Starc, Vaibhav Arora and Varun Chakravarthy.
Impact Substitutes: Sakib Hussain, Suyash Sharma, Manish Pandey, Anukul Roy and Rahmanullah Gurbaz.
Chennai Super Kings XI: Ruturaj Gaikwad (Captain), Rachin Ravindra, Ajinkya Rahane, Sameer Rizvi, Daryl Mitchell, Ravindra Jadeja, MS Dhoni (wicket-keeper), Shardul Thakur, Mustafizur Rahman, Tushar Deshpande and Maheesh Theekshana.
Impact Substitutes: Shivam Dube, Moeen Ali, , Shaik Rasheed, Mitchell Santner and Nishant Sindhu.
Chennai have two wins from four matches, while KKR have won all their three outings so far.
