Chennai Super Kings won the toss and elected to bat against KKR
Chennai vs Kolkata Highlights: CSK captain Dhoni won the toss in front of KKR and was elected to bat. CSK did not make any changes in their team and KKR on the other hand made one change in their team, replacing Anukul Roy and replacing Vaibhav Arora. KKR in the playoffs If they want to keep their hopes alive, they will have to beat CSK by a huge margin.
Chennai vs Kolkata Highlights Playing 11 of both teams
Kolkata Knight Riders:
Roy, Nitish (Captain), Russell, Rinku, Shardul, Narayan, Vaibhav Arora, Gurbaj (Wicketkeeper), Harshit Rana, Suyash Sharma, Varun Chakraborty.
Substitute players:
Venkatesh, Anukul Roy, Jagadeesan, Umesh Yadav, Ferguson.
Chennai Super Kings:
Gaikwad, Conway, Rahane, Rayudu, Shivam Dube, Moeen Ali, Jadeja, Dhoni (WK/Captain), Deepak Chahar, Deshpande, Tikshna.
Substitute players:
Nishant Sindhu, Subhranshu Senapati, Pathirana, Sheikh Rasheed.
Chennai vs Kolkata Highlights Chennai Super King’s Innings
Chennai vs Kolkata Highlights: CSK won the toss and elected to bat and Rituraj Gaikwad and Devon Conway came to open the team and Vaibhav Arora did the first over for KKR. After the end of the first over, Chennai scored nine runs without any loss.
After that, KKR got success in 3.3 overs, CSK’s first wicket fell on the score of 31 runs. Gaikwad faced 13 balls and scored 17 runs, including two fours. Varun Chakraborty got him caught by Vaibhav Arora and got the first wicket for the team.
After that, Ajinkya Rahane, who came to bat, scored 52 runs after losing one wicket in the powerplay while batting first, Chennai team’s second wicket has fallen on the score of 61 runs. Rahane faced 11 balls, out of which he scored 16 runs, after which he also lost his wicket. Varun Chakraborty got him caught by Jason Roy and got another wicket for the team and himself.
After that, Ambati Rayudu, who came to bat, came on the crease and scored the third wicket of Chennai Super Kings on the score of 66 runs. Conway scored 30 runs in 28 balls, then he also lost his wicket. He hit three fours in his innings. Shardul got him caught by Rinku. Dube is batting at the crease with Rayudu. CSK’s score was 68 for three after 10 overs.
After that, the fourth wicket of Chennai Super Kings fell on the team’s score of 68 runs. Rayudu faced seven balls in his innings and scored 4 runs after scoring 4 runs and then lost his wicket. Sunil Narine clean bowled him and got the fourth wicket for the team and now Moin Ali along with Shivam Dubey came to the crease for batting.
The team’s 5 wickets fell for 72 runs. Chennai got the fifth blow in the form of Moin Ali and CSK were seen going wicket after wicket. He scored one run in two balls. Sunil Narine clean-bowled him too. Sunil Narine took 2 wickets in one over, first dismissed Ambati Rayudu, then dismissed Moeen Ali and took 2 wickets in one over. And CSK was seen going wicket after wicket, now it seemed that the team would not reach the score of 120 and after 12 overs, Chennai scored 81 runs for five wickets.
CSK’s sixth wicket fell for 140 runs. Jadeja scored 20 runs in 24 balls and later he also lost his wicket. Arora got him caught by Chakraborty and got the wicket for the team. Now Mahendra Singh Dhoni came to the crease with Shivam Dubey, by doing this CSK scored 144 runs for the loss of 6 wickets in 20 overs and set a target of 145 runs for Kolkata.
Chennai vs Kolkata Highlights Kolkata Knight Riders innings
Chennai vs Kolkata Highlights: The Northern KKR team chasing the target of 145 runs and Jason Roy and Rehmanullah Gurbaz came to open the batting Deepak Chahar bowled the first over for CSK. Deepak Chahar got success on the last ball of his over. Got the first wicket for the team by catching
Kolkata’s second wicket has fallen for 21 runs. Venkatesh faced four balls, out of which nine runs were scored, after which he also lost his wicket and got out. And Deepak Chahar took his second wicket in his second over, Deepak Chahar got him caught by Ravindra Jadeja. Iyer hit two fours in his innings. Now captain Nitish Rana along with Jason Roy came to the crease to bat.
KKR’s third wicket has fallen for 33 runs. Roy lost his wicket after scoring 12 runs in 15 balls. He hit a four in his innings. Deepak Chahar caught him at the hands of Mathisha Pathirana and got the third wicket for the team and himself. KKR had scored 46 runs losing three wickets in the powerplay.
KKR’s fourth wicket has fallen at a score of 134 runs. Rinku was run out after scoring 54 runs in 43 balls and lost his wicket in the last over. Now Andre Russell came to bat. After 18 overs, KKR were 141 for four and needed only 4 runs to win. And then KKR won this match easily in 18.3 overs.
KKR beat CSK by six wickets. Batting first, CSK posted a respectable score of 144 for the loss of six wickets. In response to that, Kolkata scored 147 runs losing four wickets in 18.3 overs, and won the match easily. Dubey scored the highest 48 runs for Chennai and apart from this, no player could score runs. At the same time, for Kolkata, captain Nitish Rana scored 57 and Rinku Singh scored 54 runs.
