The previous season’s champions Chennai Super Kings will square off against Kolkata Knight Riders in the 22nd match of IPL 2024 at the MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai on Monday. KKR has hit the ground running in the ongoing season, winning all of their three matches whereas CSK has got off to a mixed start, winning two and losing as many.
KKR posted a huge score of 272 runs against Delhi Capitals in the previous game with Sunil Narine doing the damage at the top of the order and they bagged a resounding win of 106 runs. On the other hand, CSK could only manage 165 runs on the board against SRH on a slow pitch as the batters failed to find their timing.
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CSK captain Ruturaj Gaikwad needs 115 runs to complete 2000 runs in the IPL.
CSK former skipper MS Dhoni needs eight more sixes to become the fourth batter after Chris Gayle, Rohit Sharma, and AB de Villiers to hit 250 or more sixes in the IPL.
Venkatesh Iyer needs four more sixes to complete 50 sixes in the IPL. The left-hander also requires nine more fours to complete 100 boundaries in the tournament.
Rinku Singh needs nine more sixes to complete 50 sixes in the tournament.
Shreyas Iyer needs 11 fours to complete 250 boundaries in the IPL.
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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