Gerney is here to bowl and bowls a NO BALL. Jadhav gets a FREE HIT and he makes full use of the same as he outs it away for a FOUR. Hits another FOUR to the leg-side.
Prasidh brought back into the attack. A couple taken from two balls. This match is turning out to be quite boring. Sluggish pitch. 16 required from 24 balls for the Chennai Super Kings to win the game.
Piyush Chawla went for a leg spin. Amabati Rayudu went square and lofted it high in the sky. Prasidh Krishna DROPS that one! FInally gets the wicket of Ambati Rayudu who chops it over mid-wicket and Nitish Rana makes no mistake to grab that one. Rayudu OUT on 21. Jadhav starts off with a FOUR.
Kuldeep Yadav is here to bowl his last over. Change in the field. A slip in place for Rayudu. 32 runs required for Chennai Super Kings to win the game. 36 balls remaining.
Piyush Chawla is back to bowl the third over. Four singles in four balls and then a dot ball. One run to end the over. Five runs by the end the over. A netizen is quite bored with the slow paced match.
Kuldeep Yadav is back to bowl his third over. Three dots from three balls. A single comes and then Du Plessis breaks the shackles and goes down from one knee to hit that beautiful shot for a FOUR.
Harry Gurney is here to bowl the first over. Starts off conceding one run. Dot ball in the next delivery. KKR requires 52 runs from 60 balls. KKR needs a couple of wickets to put the hosts on a backfoot. Rayudu slams a FOUR. Single to end the over.
Kuldeep Yadav is here to bowl his second over. Du Plessis is unable to get his timing right. A lot of dew comes into the play as the bowls are constantly wiping the ball. CSK require 60 runs from 66 balls. CSK has scored 16 runs from five overs with the loss of one wicket.
Piyush Chawla is here to bowl his second over. Brings out a variation in pace. Bowls between 77-85 kmph. Starts off with a couple of runs. Then four dots and a single to end the over.
Kuldeep Yadav is here to bow his first over. Starts off with no run. 66 runs required from 80 balls for the home team. KKR needs those big wickets if they have to win this game. Three runs from the over.
Prasidh Krishna brought back. No runs conceded in the first two deliveries of the over. Bowls a NO BALL on the third delivery. Rayudu takes full advantage of the FREE HIT as he sends it away to leg side for a FOUR. Dot ball to end the over.
Sunil Narine is here to bowl his second over. Starts of giving away one run. Not a single scored from the remaining overs. Strikes on the last ball of the over and get the wicket of Raina as he lofts it in the air. Chawla makes no mistake. Raina OUT on 14
Prasidh back into the attack for KKR. Starts off conceding a couple of runs. Followed by a couple of dot balls. Then Raina slams a FOUR to the covers. Single to end the over.
Sunil Narine strikes on the second ball as he comes for first over. Watson starts off with a FOUR. Narine squanders off the leg circle and Watson OUT on 17. Suresh Raina the new man in and starts off with a SIX.
Prasidh Krishna and starts off with no runs in the first three balls. Then concedes a single. Dot ball to end the over for Kolkata Knight Riders. 14 runs from two overs.
Piyush Chawla opens the bowling attack for KKR. Shane Watson and Faf du Plessis are at the crease to open the batting for CSK. Watson starts off the over with a FOUR. Watson gets going with aa SIX. Dot to end the over.
The Chennai Super Kings are all set to take on the Kolkata Knight Riders in the 23rd match of the Indian Premier League 12. The last time the two teams locked horns with each other, both CSK and KKR won their respective home ties. The game in Chennai was won by CSK as by 5 wickets. Whereas the one at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata was won by KKR by six wickets. In the IPL 2019, both CSK and KKR have played five games and have won four. Dinesh Karthik led Kolkata Knight Riders are placed on number one of the IPL 2019 points table with eight points. CSK vs KKR, IPL 2019, Chennai Weather & Pitch Report: Here's How the Weather Will Behave for Indian Premier League 12's Match Between Chennai Super Kings and Kolkata Knight Riders.
Whereas, the Yellow Army is on number two with eight points. Since there is a substantial amount of a difference between the run rates of the two teams, there is a difference in the rankings of CSK and KKR. The head to head record suggests that the Chennai Super Kings have an upper hand over the Kolkata Knight Riders. Out of the 18 times that the two teams have locked horns with each other, CSK walked away with a victory 11 times and the rest were won by KKR. So overall, we will have an amazing game of cricket today. Chennai Super Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders Live Cricket Score 23th T20 Match.
Squads:
Chennai Super Kings: Shane Watson, Faf du Plessis, Suresh Raina, MS Dhoni(w/c), Ambati Rayudu, Kedar Jadhav, Ravindra Jadeja, Deepak Chahar, Scott Kuggeleijn, Harbhajan Singh, Imran Tahir, Murali Vijay, Sam Billings, Dhruv Shorey, N Jagadeesan, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Dwayne Bravo, Chaitanya Bishnoi, Karn Sharma, Mitchell Santner, Shardul Thakur, Mohit Sharma, KM Asif, Monu Kumar
Kolkata Knight Riders: Chris Lynn, Sunil Narine, Robin Uthappa, Shubman Gill, Nitish Rana, Dinesh Karthik(w/c), Andre Russell, Piyush Chawla, Kuldeep Yadav, Harry Gurney, Prasidh Krishna, Rinku Singh, Nikhil Naik, Joe Denly, Shrikant Mundhe, Carlos Brathwaite, Sandeep Warrier, Lockie Ferguson, Yarra Prithviraj, KC Cariappa
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