IPL 2024 CSK vs KKR Playing11: Chennai Super Kings who lost their last couple of games in the IPL 2024 season have won the toss and opted to bowl first in their home clash against Kolkata Knight Riders.
Mustafizur, Shardul and Rizvi Back in Chennai’s Playing11 vs KKR
Chennai Super Kings have included their inform overseas bowler Mustafizur Rahman in their playing 11 against KKR. Mustafizur missed CSK’s last encounter with SRH owing to a VISA process.
On the other hand, CSK also included Shardul Thakur for the first time in their playing11 this season. Sameer Rizvi who kickstarted his IPL 2024 campaign with a SIX also made his way back into the squad.
While Kolkata Knight Riders who won all their games of the IPL 2024 season so far will face Chennai Super Kings with the same playing11 which defeated Delhi Capitals by a whopping 106 runs.
Chennai Super Kings have so far played 4 matches and 2 matches and placed in 4th spot in the IPL 2024 Points Table. Notably, those 2 victories came out in their home venue – Chepauk.
IPL 2024 CSK vs KKR Playing11
| Chennai Super Kings | Kolkata Knight Riders |
| Ruturaj Gaikwad(c) | Philip Salt(w) |
| Rachin Ravindra | Sunil Narine |
| Ajinkya Rahane | Venkatesh Iyer |
| Daryl Mitchell | Shreyas Iyer(c) |
| Sameer Rizvi | Angkrish Raghuvanshi |
| Ravindra Jadeja | Andre Russell |
| MS Dhoni(w) | Rinku Singh |
| Shardul Thakur | Ramandeep Singh |
| Mustafizur Rahman | Mitchell Starc |
| Tushar Deshpande | Vaibhav Arora |
| Maheesh Theekshana | Varun Chakaravarthy |
- Kolkata Knight Riders Subs: Suyash Sharma, Anukul Roy, Manish Pandey, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Sakib Hussain
- Chennai Super Kings Subs: Shivam Dube, Moeen Ali, Shaik Rasheed, Mitchell Santner, Nishant Sindhu
Winning the toss, CSK captain Ruturaj Gaikwad said “Good toss to win. It looks humid, we will bowl first. Hasn’t dented our confidence, we have lost by small margin. Definitely looking forward to getting a win in this game. They are playing good brand of cricket, we want to keep things simple. Pathirana is not available, Mustafizur is back. Shardul comes in and Rizvi comes back”.
KKR captain Shreyas Iyer said “We would have bowled first. We have assessed the conditions and adapted well, appreciate that. Everyone has stepped up and played fearless cricket. It’s history, that was a different team. We just need to keep things simple, that’s better. Our focus is on the present. We are sticking to the same team”.
🚨 Toss Update 🚨@ChennaiIPL win the toss & elect to field against @KKRiders
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— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) April 8, 2024
