KKR vs MI - 5th Match of Indian Premier League'2021, at M.A.Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai, India
Weather Forecast
Partly Cloudy - 30°C
1. VENUE
Venue - M.A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai, India
(i) All Matches - T20s
Total Matches - 89
Avg 1st Innings - 147
Avg 2nd Innings - 130
Highest - 246/5 (Chennai Super Kings vs Rajasthan Royals - 3rd Apr'2010)
(ii) Both teams on this ground - T20s
KKR - 9-2w/7l
MI - 13-8w/5l
(iii) Total Summary of wickets taken by bowlers in the last 12 matches on this venue.
Pacers
1st Innings - 21w
2nd Innings - 27w
Spinners
1st Innings - 33w
2nd Innings - 27w
Overall
48w:60w(Pacers:Spinners)
(iv) Performance on this ground from current squad - T20s
KKR
Dinesh Karthik - 19th highest run scorer (262), Avg (29.11) - 12M/10I
Andre Russell - 33rd highest run scorer (158), Avg (79) - 4M/4I
Harbhajan Singh - 44th highest run scorer (130), Avg (21.67) - 18M/8I
Harbhajan Singh - 5th highest wicket taker (20), Avg (21.85), SR (19.80) - 18M/18I
Sunil Narine - 15th highest wicket taker (11), Avg (17.27), SR (17.09) - 8M/8I
MI
Rohit Sharma - 32nd highest run scorer (160), Avg (20) - 10M/10I
Kieron Pollard - 40th highest run scorer (135), Avg (19.29) - 12M/9I
Suryakumar Yadav - 41st highest run scorer (134), Avg (67) - 5M/4I
Kieron Pollard - 19th highest wicket taker (8), Avg (24.88), Strike Rate (21.75) - 12M/9I
HEAD TO HEAD
(i) Overall
27 - 21w/6l (In favour of MI)
(ii) Last 5 matches
5 - 4w/1l (In favour of MI)
(iii) At this venue
Not played here yet!
(iv) Performers when both these sides meet - T20s
KKR
Andre Russell - 13th highest run scorer (174), Avg (21.75) - 10M/9I
Nitish Rana - 14th highest run scorer (157), Avg (26.17) - 7M/6I
Dinesh Karthik - 15th highest run scorer (155), Avg (22.15) - 10M/10I
Pat Cummins - Runs (86), 2nd highest avg (86) - 2M/2I
Sunil Narine - Highest wicket taker (22), Avg (20.73), SR (18.32) - 17M/17I
Shakib Al Hasan - 6th highest wicket taker (10), Avg (25.20), SR (21.20) - 9M/9I
Andre Russell - 11th highest wicket taker (6), Avg (42.83), SR (28.17) - 10M/10I
Harbhajan Singh - 4th highest wicket taker (11), Avg (37), SR (29.45) - 16M/16I
MI
Rohit Sharma - Highest run scorer (823), 7th highest avg (51.44) - 21M/21I
Suryakumar Yadav - 2nd highest run scorer (367), 12th highest avg (40.78) - 14M/13I
Hardik Pandya - 8th highest run scorer (284), 5th highest avg (71) - 12M/9I
Kieron Pollard - 11th highest run scorer (246), Avg (27.33) - 20M/16I
Jasprit Bumrah - 3rd highest wicket taker (12), Avg (29.42), SR (22) - 12M/12I
Hardik Pandya - 4th highest wicket taker (11), Avg (14.45), SR (12.55) - 12M/9I
Krunal Pandya - 11th highest wicket taker (6), Avg (33.17), SR (29.17) - 10M/10I
3. PROBABLE XIs
KKR - Gill, Rana, Tripathi, Karthik(Wk), Russell, Morgan(C), Shakib, Cummins, Harbhajan, Varun, Prasidh
MI - Rohit(C), Lynn, Surya, Kishan(Wk), Hardik, Krunal, Pollard, R Chahar, Jansen, Boult, Bumrah
Key Players
(Must Picks for today's battle)
Rohit, Bumrah, Gill
Rotation Picks in various SL/GL teams
Rana, Tripathi, Russell, Karthik, Shakib, Varun, Lynn, Surya, Kishan, Boult, Hardik, Krunal, Prasidh
Worthy GL Picks
Morgan, Cummins, Pollard, Jansen(must try in GL), Chahar(went wicketless in the last game but Chennai wickets help spinners and he could be a good GL try), Harbhajan(was stopped in one over last game but could bowl more, risky pick)
Safe C/VC choices - Rohit, Rana, Surya, Russell, Gill
GL C/VC choices - Tripathi, Lynn, Kishan, Krunal, Bumrah, Shakib
My Fantasy XI (SL/H2H)
Wk - Kishan
Bat - Surya, Gill, Rana, Rohit, Lynn, Tripathi/Shakib(AR)
AR - Russell
Bowl - Bumrah, Boult, Varun/Cummins