As IPL started, cricket lovers are all excited as two amazing teams are going to compete against each other today. Match 21 of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 will see Kolkata Knight Riders taking on the Chennai Super Kings at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium on Wednesday. IPL is only a few weeks in, and CSK fans are all excited for the matches. They have been through personnel concerns, a woeful run of games and a swashbuckling partnership between Shane Watson and Faf du Plessis to get them back on track. Although MS Dhoni and co have just two wins in five games, they come into this fixture on the back of a stunning ten-wicket win against a hapless KXIP side.
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The head-to-head record reads 14-8 in CSK's favour with the three-time IPL champions doing the double over KKR in IPL 2019. Dinesh Karthik and his men would love to exact revenge upon CSK as both sides look for a win in Abu Dhabi. Thus, one can expect a cracking encounter at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium on Wednesday.
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Players to play today:
KKR: Sunil Narine, Shubman Gill, Nitish Rana, Dinesh Karthik (C&WK), Eoin Morgan, Andre Russell, Rahul Tripathi, Pat Cummins, Varun Chakravarthy, Shivam Mavi and Kamlesh Nagarkoti
CSK: Shane Watson, Faf du Plessis, Ambati Rayudu, Kedar Jadhav, MS Dhoni (C&WK), Sam Curran, Ravindra Jadeja, Dwayne Bravo, Deepak Chahar, Piyush Chawla and Shardul Thakur
Talk about pitch details then unlike the pitches in Sharjah and Dubai, the one in Abu Dhabi has offered some help to both the pacers and spinners. While the pacers have experienced the conditions with the new ball, the spinners have grown in stature as the innings has progressed.
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