Today (April 8) in IPL 2024, Chennai Super Kings will host Kolkata Knight Riders – here is the predicted XI for the match, team news and today’s IPL match prediction for CSK vs KKR.
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CSK vs KKR, live score: Follow the live scorecard here
The match will begin at 7:30 pm IST.
CSK vs KKR: Toss updates
CSK won the toss and elected to field first.
CSK vs KKR: IPL 2024 team news
Chennai Super Kings missed Matheesha Pathirana, to an injury, and Mustafizur Rahman, who had returned home. The availability of neither is confirmed for this match. If it remains that way, Moeen Ali will play again, and Chennai will go in with an all-Indian pace attack.
Angkrish Raghuvanshi made a stunning fifty on his IPL debut, and is likely to retain his place. In Nitish Rana, Vaibhav Arora, and Suyash Sharma, Kolkata Knight Riders have enough Indian cricketers to use as the Impact Player.
IPL 2024: Upcoming matches
PBKS vs SRH – 7:30 pm IST
IPL 2024: Yesterday’s IPL match
MI vs DC, Match 20 – MI won by 29 runs
LSG vs GT, Match 21 – LSG won by 33 runs
CSK vs KKR: Playing XIs for today’s IPL match
CSK: Ruturaj Gaikwad (c), Rachin Ravindra, Ajinkya Rahane, Sameer Rizvi, Daryl Mitchell, Ravindra Jadeja, MS Dhoni (wk), Shardul Thakur, Tushar Deshpande, Maheesh Theekshana, Mustafizur Rahman. Impact Players: Shivam Dube, Mukesh Chaudhary, Mitchell Santner.
KKR: Phil Salt (wk), Sunil Narine, Venkatesh Iyer, Shreyas Iyer (c), Angkish Raghuvanshi, Ramandeep Singh, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Mitchell Starc, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakravarthy. Impact Players – Suyash Sharma, Manish Pandey.
CSK vs KKR: Prediction for today’s IPL match
The KKR power hitters will be tested if CSK roll out the traditional Chepauk slow turner, but the KKR spinners will be more than a handful too. For once, a touring side will take field as slight favourites in Chennai.
