IPL 2024: Chennai Super Kings win the toss against Kolkata Knight Riders; choose to bowl first

The 22nd match of the IPL 2024 season will be played between Chennai Super Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders at MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai on Monday, April 8, 2024. However, Chennai Super Kings won the toss and opted to bowl first.

Chennai Super Kings have lost their last two games whereas won the first two. On the other hand, Kolkata Knight Riders have won all of their three games so far. While they will try to keep their winning momentum on, CSK will try to bounce back as well. This is going to be an exciting match for both teams as well.

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IPL 2024: CSK vs KKR, Match 22: Who said what at the toss?

Shreyas Iyer: We would have bowled first. We have assessed the conditions and adapted well, appreciate that. Everyone has stepped up and played fearless cricket. It’s history, that was a different team. We just need to keep things simple, that’s better. Our focus is on the present. We are sticking to the same team.

Ruturaj Gaikwad: Good toss to win. It looks humid, expecting dew tonight, so we will bowl first. Hasn’t dented our confidence, we have lost by small margins. Everyone is confident in our group, but we have had forced changes. Definitely looking forward to getting a win in this game. They are playing a good brand of cricket, we want to keep things simple and want to focus on ourselves. Pathirana is not available, Mustafizur is back. Deepak has a niggle so he misses out, Shardul comes in and Rizvi comes back.

Playing XIs:

Kolkata Knight Riders: Philip Salt(w), Sunil Narine, Venkatesh Iyer, Shreyas Iyer(c), Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Andre Russell, Rinku Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Mitchell Starc, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakaravarthy

Kolkata Knight Riders Subs: Suyash Sharma, Anukul Roy, Manish Pandey, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Sakib Hussain

Chennai Super Kings: Ruturaj Gaikwad(c), Rachin Ravindra, Ajinkya Rahane, Daryl Mitchell, Sameer Rizvi, Ravindra Jadeja, MS Dhoni(w), Shardul Thakur, Mustafizur Rahman, Tushar Deshpande, Maheesh Theekshana

Chennai Super Kings Subs: Shivam Dube, Moeen Ali, Shaik Rasheed, Mitchell Santner, Nishant Sindhu