Kolkata Knight Riders VS Chennai Super Kings Match Prediction!!

When: May 3, 2018, 8 PM IST

Where: Eden Gardens, Kolkata

What to expect: There are chances of early evening showers that is likely to ease closer to match start. The pitch had a covering of grass to hold it together. Expect plenty of runs.

Head to Head 

CSK have won 11 games so far against KKR while the hosts have managed just six against Dhoni and his men. At the Eden Gardens too, CSK hold the edge with four wins from seven games.

Team news:

Kolkata Knight Riders: Nitish Rana, who had to retire hurt in the game against RCB, suffered a lower back spasm. The team management will take a call on his fitness on the morning of the game. If Rana is ruled out, then KKR can look to push Shubman Gill up and slot in Rinku Singh to do the finishing job.




Probable XI: Sunil Narine, Chris Lynn, Robin Uthappa, Rinku Singh, Dinesh Karthik (C & WK), Andre Russell, Shubman Gill, Shivam Mavi, Piyush Chawla, M. Johnson, Kuldeep Yadav.

Chennai Super Kings: In the last game against DD, CSK made four changes. It was only the third instance of Dhoni making four changes to the playing XI. He has done it in successive matches but it's highly unlikely the visitors will now make any changes.

Probable XI: Shane Watson, Faf du Plessis, Suresh Raina, Ambati Rayudu, MS Dhoni (C &WK), Dwayne Bravo, Ravindra Jadeja, Karn Sharma, Harbhajan Singh, Lungi Ngidi, KM Asif

interesting face-offs

Suresh Raina vs KKR: 21 innings; 852 runs; Avg 50.11; SR 140.82

Dhoni vs Narine: 51 balls, 25 runs, No dismissals, No fours, No sixes, SR 49.01

Approaching milestones

Ambati Rayudu needs 26 runs to go past his highest tally in a season - 395 runs in 2011.

ACCORDING TO RECORDS AND EXPERTS

CSK IS IN PLUS POINT.

Teams:

Kolkata Knight Riders (From): Chris Lynn, Sunil Narine,
Robin Uthappa, Nitish Rana, Dinesh Karthik(w/c),
Shubman Gill, Andre Russell, Shivam Mavi, Piyush
Chawla, Mitchell Johnson, Kuldeep Yadav, Rinku Singh,
Tom Curran, Ishank Jaggi, Prasidh Krishna, Vinay Kumar,
A. Wankhade, Cameron Delport, Javon Searles

Chennai Super Kings (From): Shane Watson, Faf du
Plessis, Suresh Raina, Ambati Rayudu, MS Dhoni(w/c),
Dwayne Bravo, Ravindra Jadeja, Karn Sharma,
Harbhajan Singh, Lungi Ngidi, KM Asif, Dhruv Shorey,
Murali Vijay, Sam Billings, Imran Tahir, Shardul Thakur,
David Willey, Kanishk Seth, Mark Wood, Kshitiz Sharma,
Monu Kumar, Chaitanya Bishnoi, N Jagadeesan