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The Indian Premier League (IPL) will face Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in 2025 today from Chennai Super Kings (CSK). The match will be played at the Eden Gardens Stadium in Kolkata from 7:30 pm. Kolkata won the last win here in 2018 against Chennai.
In this season, both teams will be face to face. In the last match, Kolkata defeated Chennai by 8 wickets. Defending champion Kolkata’s performance has not been special this season. The team won 5 out of 11 matches and lost 5 while one match was canceled due to rain. The team has 11 points.
Kolkata needs to win at least two out of three matches to reach the playoffs. On the other hand, Chennai has already been out of the playoff race. The team has 4 points with 2 wins in 11 matches.
Match details, 57th match KKR vs CSK date- 7 May Stadium- Eden Gardens, Kolkata Time: Toss- 7:00 PM, Match Start- 7:30 PM
Chennai heavy on Kolkata
In the IPL, 33 matches have been played between the two teams so far. Of these, Chennai won 20 matches and Kolkata won 12 matches. While 1 match was insensitive due to rain. 10 matches were played between the two at the Eden Gardens. Home team KKR has won 4 and CSK has won 6. Kolkata won the last win here in 2018 against Chennai. After that 2 matches were played, both of them won by Chennai.
Rahane Top Scorer, Chakraborty’s name 15 wickets
Defending champion Kolkata could not show the game as expected this season. Except for team captain Ajinkya Rahane, no batsman has left the impact. Venkatesh Iyer, the most expensive player in Kolkata, has been completely flopped in the season. He has scored just 142 runs in 11 matches.
Rahane is the highest run -scorer for the team. He has scored 327 runs at a strike rate of 146. He has also put 3 fifty. However, explosive batsman Andre Russell has returned to the form. He scored a half -century in the last match.
Mystery spinner Varun Chakraborty is the top wicket of KKR. He has taken 15 wickets in 11 matches so far. Chakraborty has spent runs at an economy rate of 7.23. Both Harshit Rana and Vaibhav Arora have taken 13-13 wickets in fast bowlers for the team. At the same time, Sunil Naren has taken 10 wickets.
Jadeja Top Batter, Noor Top Bowler
The season has been nothing special for Chennai batter. Only two left hander batsmen Shivam Dubey and Ravindra Jadeja have been able to score 200+ runs from the team. Jadeja has scored the most runs, scoring 260 runs at a strike rate of 137. However, young batsmen Sheikh Rashid, Ayush Mhatre and Dewald Bravis are performing well for the team.
Chinaman spinner Noor Ahmed is the leading bowler of Chennai. He has taken 16 wickets in 11 matches. After him, Left Arm Pesar Khalil Ahmed has taken 14 wickets and death over specialist Mathish Pathirana 12 wickets.
Pitch report The pitch of Eden Gardens Stadium proves to be helpful for batsmen. So far 99 IPL matches have been played in this stadium. Here the teams who batting first have won 42 and chase teams have won 56 matches. The highest team score of this stadium is 262/2, which was made by Punjab Kings against Kolkata last season.
6 matches have been played here this season. The first batting team in 4 matches and the chase team in 1 has won. The result of a match could not be removed.
Weather condition The weather of Kolkata will not be correct on 7 May. In some parts, there is a possibility of a storm and after that in the afternoon, there is a possibility of rain and storm. It will be cloudy throughout the day, 57% of rain is apprehensive. The temperature here is expected to be between 28 and 36 degrees on this day.
Possible playing-12 Kolkata Knight Riders: Ajinkya Rahane (captain), Sunil Naren, Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wicketkeeper), Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Moin Ali, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Varun Chakraborty, Vaibhav Arora, Harshit Rana.
Chennai Super Kings: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (captain and wicketkeeper), Sheikh Rashid, Ayush Mhatre, Sam Karan, Ravindra Jadeja, Dewald Brevis, Shivam Dubey, Deepak Hooda, Khalil Ahmed, Noor Ahmed, Mathisha Pathirana, Anshul Kamboj.