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17.1 overs: OUT! Lungi Ngidi removes dangerous dangerous Nitish Rana for 87. Once again Nitish tries to clear the fence but this time he mistimes. The ball goes high up and Sam Curran coming in from long-on takes a good catch. KKR 136/4
End of 17th over: Another good over for KKR as Nitish Rana and Eoin Morgan collect 11 runs from it including a couple of boundaries. KKR 136/3
15.3 overs: SIX! SIX! SIX! Three in a row. Nitish Rana now looking to hit everything out of the park. Collects back-to-back sixes off Karn Sharma. Two on the leg side and one straight down the ground. Rana is on fire! KKR 124/3
14.2 overs: FOUR! Swept and swept hard. A cracking boundary from Nitish Rana off Ravindra Jadeja. Places the ball beautifully in the gap. 100 comes up for KKR with that boundary. KKR 103/3

50 for Nitish Rana!
Gets to his 11th IPL fifty off 44 balls. Rana, so far has been steady but would now look to accelerate his scoring as KKR are falling behind. A reponsible knock from Rana and KKR would now hope that he finishes strongly for the team. KKR 95/3
12.5 overs: OUT! After getting hit for a four previous ball, Ravindra Jadeja hits back. Rinku Singh once again tries to go after him but this time hits it straight to Ambati Rayudu at fine leg. First wicket for Jadeja as Rinku falls for 11. KKR 93/3
End of 12th over: A tight second over from Karn Sharma. Just 4 runs from it. KKR 86/2
End of 11th over: FOUR! FOUR! Back-to-back boundaries for Nitish Rana off Mitchell Santner. Rana has looked pretty good so far and is now looking to accelerate after a dull period that came following the wickets of Shubman Gill and Sunil Narine. KKR 82/2
Halfway through!
After a decent start from the openers KKR now have lost in-form Shubman Gill and Sunil Narine in quick succession. Both Nitish Rana (35*) and Rinku Singh (2*) are now trying to rebuild this innings for KKR. After 10 overs KKR have 70 on the board.
8.3 overs: OUT! Tossed up delivery from Mitchell Santner and Sunil Narine goes for the big hit on the leg side. Fails to time it properly and Ravindra Jadeja in the deep makes no mistake. Narine departs for a 7-ball 7. KKR 60/2
7.5 overs: SIX! Sunil Narine goes down town. That was right in the arc of Narine and he slams the ball over the long-on fence. Narine collects his first maximum of the match. KKR 59/1
7.2 overs: OUT! Karn Sharma strikes second ball. Cleans up Shubman Gill with a quicker one that went straight on after pitching. Gill misses the ball completely as the ball crashes onto his leg-stump. Gill falls for 26. KKR 53/1
50 up for KKR after 6.2 overs!
Shubman Gill 25*
Nitish Rana 25*
End of Powerplay! And KKR have managed 48 runs without losing any wicket. 15 runs from Mitchell Santner’s first over including 2 fours and a six. Nitish Rana doing the damage in that over from Santner. KKR 48/0
5.2 overs: FOUR! Mitchell Santner strays down the leg side and Nitish Rana sweeps him to the right of deep square-leg to collect four runs. KKR 38/0
End of 4th over: 5 runs from Sam Curran’s second over including a boundary. Change in bowling now for CSK as Lungi Ngidi comes into the attack. KKR 28/0
2.1 overs: FOUR! Short-arm jab from Shubman Gill and the ball races to the mid-wicket fence. Once again Deepak Chahar starts his over conceding a boundary. Chahar has just not been on-the-mark so far in this innings. KKR 20/0
End of 2nd over: A tidy start from Sam Curran at the other end. Just 3 runs off his first over. KKR 16/0
End of 1st over: An expensive start from Deepak Chahar. Leaks 13 in his first over including 3 boundaries. Sam Curran to share the new ball with Chahar from the other end. KKR 13/0
0.4 overs: FOUR! Nitish Rana gets off the mark with a boundary as well. Thickish outside edge and the ball beats the short third-man fielder and races to the fence. KKR 13/0
0.1 overs: Width and four! Wide outside off from Deepak Chahar and Shumban Gill creams it through covers to collect his first boundary. KKR start off with a boundary first-ball. KKR 4/0
Shubman Gill and Nitish Rana are out in the middle to start the innings for Kolkata Knight Riders. Deepak Chahar has the new ball in hand for Chennai Super Kings. A slip in place for him. Shubman on strike. Here we go!
Note – If Chennai Super Kings win today, Mumbai Indians will become the first team to qualify for the IPL 2020 play-offs.
Playing XI for both the teams!

Kolkata Knight Riders: Shubman Gill, Nitish Rana, Rahul Tripathi, Dinesh Karthik(w), Eoin Morgan(c), Sunil Narine, Rinku Singh, Pat Cummins, Lockie Ferguson, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Varun Chakravarthy
Chennai Super Kings: Ruturaj Gaikwad, Shane Watson, Ambati Rayudu, MS Dhoni(w/c), N Jagadeesan, Sam Curran, Ravindra Jadeja, Mitchell Santner, Karn Sharma, Deepak Chahar, Lungi Ngidi
Captains at the toss!
Eoin Morgan: One change for us, Rinku Singh in, Prasidh Krishna out. Andre Russell is not near fit yet so he misses out today. We can only control what we can do. We have had an up and down season. We are against a good CSK side. Myself and Brendon are all about freeing people.
MS Dhoni: We are bowling first, bit worried about the dew. We had some dew during practice, so it’s better to bat second with dew around. We haven’t been at our best, that’s the reason we have been lagging behind. Quite a few changes, Faf, Tahir, Monu out. Watto, Lungi, Karn in.
Team news – Three changes for Chennai Super Kings as Shane Watson, Karn Sharma and Lungi Ngidi come in for Faf du Plessis, Monu Singh and Imran Tahir. One change in Kolkata Knight Riders playing XI as Rinku Yadav comes in for Prasidh Krishna.

Toss news: Chennai Super Kings skipper MS Dhoni wins toss, opts to bowl against Kolkata Knight Riders in Dubai
Pitch report: “It’s the same surface as the DC-SRH game. Grass on one side, bare on the other side. The wicket did not misbehave. If you are put in to bat, forget the pitch, just play the ball. Go in with a positive mindset whether you win or lose the toss,” reckon Murali Kartik and Kumar Sangakkara.
Few words ahead of the start!

Players from both the teams are out in the middle, warming up ahead of the mouth-watering clash. We are just 30 minutes away from the toss.

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