The reigning champions Chennai Super Kings will lock horns against Kolkata Knight Riders in the 22nd match of IPL 2024 at the MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai on Monday. CSK has won two out of their four matches whereas KKR has won all of their three games so far.
We take a look at the head-to-head battle, players to watch out for, and squads of both teams in our match preview.
Kolkata Knight Riders: W W W
KKR could not have asked for a better start to the season as they have come up with a collective effort. Sunil Narine has batted at his absolute best in the ongoing season as he has scored 134 runs in three matches. Moreover, their bowling unit has done a decent job.
Chennai Super Kings: L L W W
Chennai will want to come up with a better batting performance as their batters could not convert their starts in the last game against Sunrisers Hyderabad. Ruturaj Gaikwad’s form is also a cause of concern for the five-time champions.
Head to Head: Matches: 31, Won by CSK: 19, Won by KKR: 11, Abandoned: 1.
CSK certainly holds a big advantage in head-to-head battle.
Players to watch out for: Shreyas Iyer, Rinku Singh, Phil Salt, Venkatesh Iyer, Mitchell Starc, Varun Chakravarthy, and Sunil Narine will hold the key for KKR.
MS Dhoni, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ajinkya Rahane, Shivam Dube, Deepak Chahar, Ravindra Jadeja, and Maheesh Theekshana will be the crucial players for CSK.
CSK squad for IPL 2024:
MS Dhoni (c), Moeen Ali, Deepak Chahar, Devon Conway, Tushar Deshpande, Shivam Dube, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Ravindra Jadeja, Ajay Mandal, Mukesh Choudhary, Matheesha Pathirana, Ajinkya Rahane, Shaik Rasheed, Mitchell Santner, Simarjeet Singh, Nishant Sindhu, Prashant Solanki, Maheesh Theekshana, Rachin Ravindra, Shardul Thakur, Daryl Mitchell, Sameer Rizvi, Mustafizur Rahman, Avanish Rao Aravelly.
KKR Squad: Shreyas Iyer, Phil Salt, K.S. Bharat, Rahmanullah Gurbaz (AFG), Rinku Singh, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Sherfane Rutherford (WI), Manish Pandey, Andre Russell (WI), Nitish Rana, Venkatesh Iyer, Anukul Roy, Ramandeep Singh, Varun Chakravarthy, Sunil Narine (WI), Vaibhav Arora, Chetan Sakariya, Harshit Rana, Suyash Sharma, Mitchell Starc (AUS), Dushmantha Chameera (SL), Sakib Hussain, Mujeeb Ur Rahman (AFG).
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