Chennai, Apr 8 (UNI) Five-time winners Chennai Super Kings (CSK) won the toss and
decided to bowl first in its fifth IPL match against Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) at the
M.A.Chidambaram Stadium here on Monday.
This the third home match for CSK, which has won the previous two outings here.
Left arm seamer Mustafizur Rahman, who went to Bangladesh and re-joined the team
after completing the visa formalities for the T-20 World Cup , is back in the playing XI
after missing the last two games, which CSK lost.
Deepak Chahar is out with a niggle and Sling bowler Maheesha Pathirana too misses
out along with Moeen Ali. Sharadul Thakur and Sameer Rizvi are back in the team.
KKR is unchanged. It retained the same XI which defeated Delhi Capital by 106 runs
in the last match.
The teams :
KKR :
Shreyas Iyer (C),Sunil Narine, Phil Salt, Venkatesh Iyer, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Andre
Russell, Rinku Singh,Ramandeep Singh, Mitchell Starc, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakravarthy.
CSK :
Ruturaj Gaikwad (C), Rachin Ravindra, Ajinkya Rahane, Ravindra Jadeja, M S Dhoni,
Sharadul Thakur, Mustafizur Rahman, Sameer Rizvi, Daryl Mitchell, Tushar Deshpande,
Maheesh Theekshana.
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