Game 21 of the Indian Premier League and Dinesh Karthik has won the toss and elected to bat first against MS Dhoni’s Chennai Super Kings.
KKR are unchanged for this game in Abu Dhabi but Chennai are playing without Piyush Chawla, giving a game to Karn Sharma.
KKR are looking to bounce back from an 18-run defeat to Delhi Capitals. CSK, on the other hand, ended their run of defeats with an emphatic 10-wicket win over Kings XI Punjab in their previous match.
Playing XIs
Kolkata Knight Riders
Shubman Gill, Sunil Narine, Nitish Rana, Andre Russell, Dinesh Karthik (wicketkeeper, captain), Eoin Morgan, Pat Cummins, Rahul Tripathi, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Shivam Mavi, Varun Chakravarthy
Chennai Super Kings
Shane Watson, Faf du Plessis, Ambati Rayudu, MS Dhoni (wicketkeeper, captain), Kedar Jadhav, Ravindra Jadeja, Dwayne Bravo, Sam Curran, Karn Sharma, Shardul Thakur, Deepak Chahar
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