In-form Chennai Super Kings (CSK) will meet a match when they take on Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in their IPL 2019 encounter at M.A. Chidambaram Stadium on Tuesday. While CSK have been at the top of their game at home, KKR are sitting at the top of the points table with four wins from five games. Although both the teams are equal on points — eight apiece — KKR have a better net run-rate of +1.058 over CSK’s +0.159.
CSK will go into the match with a lot of confidence as they defended a modest 160 in their last home fixture against Kings XI Punjab after the visitors looked like running away with the game at one point of time. KKR go into the match after another clinical finish, as they walloped Rajasthan Royals by eight wickets in a one-sided contest. They first restricted Royals to 139/3 before chasing down the target in just 14 overs with Chris Lynn and Sunil Narine giving their team a flying start.
Expected playing 11
Chennai Super Kings: MS Dhoni, Shane Watson, Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja, Kedar Jadhav, Faf du Plessis, Mohit Sharma, Shardul Thakur, Imran Tahir, Deepak Chahar, Ambati Rayudu
Kolkata Knight Riders: Dinesh Karthik, Robin Uthappa, Sunil Narine, Chris Lynn, Nitish Rana, Shubman Gill, Andre Russell, Piyush Chawla, Kuldeep Yadav, Lockie Ferguson, Prasidh Krishna
FPJ’s dream 11: MS Dhoni, Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja, Kedar Jadhav, Dinesh Karthik, Robin Uthappa, Sunil Narine, Andre Russell, Imran Tahir, Deepak Chahar, Kuldeep Yadav