After defeating Delhi Capital in their home ground, Kings XI Punjab will board to Chennai to lock horns with Chennai Super Kings at MA Chidambaram Stadium. MS Dhoni led Chennai Super Kings suffered a defeat against Mumbai Indians at Wankhede Stadium, but the team was on a winning streak before that. On the other side, Kings XI Punjab led by Ravichandran Ashwin is on a winning streak and would like to continue the winning count against Chennai Super Kings. The hosts were in a great form but things didn’t went into the favor of them, but against Kings XI Punjab they had a majority of win.
Kings XI Punjab vs Chennai Super Kings, Match 18 will be played at MA Chidambaram where the pitch is a spin-friendly which might force thr franchises to have spinners in the playing XI. Chris Gayle was given rest for the previous match, but might return to the playing XI for KXIP. Sam Curran did opening for KXIP who was awarded as Man of the Match as well for the bowling attack 4/11 including Hat-trick. On the other side, spinner of Chennai Super Kings are in teh form— Imran Tahir the man who has been a trouble for the opponents. MS Dhoni did comeback with his form against Rajasthan Royals with 75 runs off 46 balls.
Shane Watson and Suresh Raina will be a threat for Kings XI Punjab as these two can change the gear for CSK. The interesting part of the match will be when Ravichandran Ashwin and MS Dhoni will be playing against each other as these two have played a lot of cricket together for Chennai Super Kings itself. In the previous battles between Chennai Super Kings vs Kings XI Punjab, Whistlepodu are eight matches ahead as CSK have won 12 matches, whereas KXIP has won just 8 out of the total 20 matches.
Probable XI:
Chennai Super Kings: Shane Watson, Dwayne Bravo, MS Dhoni (c & wk), Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja, Kedar Jadhav, Ambati Rayudu, Imran Tahir, Deepak Chahar, Mohit Sharma, Shardul Thakur
Kings XI Punjab: Chris Gayle, Ravichandran Ashwin (c), Mayank Agarwal, David Miller, Mohammed Shami, Lokesh Rahul (wk), Murugan Ashwin, Sarfaraz Khan/Mandeep Singh, Hardus Viljoen, Sam Curran
Teams:
Chennai Super Kings Squad: Harbhajan Singh, Shane Watson, Dwayne Bravo, MS Dhoni (c), Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja, Murali Vijay, Karn Sharma, Kedar Jadhav, Ambati Rayudu, Imran Tahir, Faf du Plessis, Deepak Chahar, Sam Billings, Mohit Sharma, Shardul Thakur, Dhruv Shorey, Scott Kuggeleijn, Monu Kumar, Mitchell Santner, Chaitanya Bishnoi, N Jagadeesan, Ruturaj Gaikwad, KM Asif
Kings XI Punjab Squad: Chris Gayle, Moises Henriques, Ravichandran Ashwin (c), Mayank Agarwal, Mandeep Singh, David Miller, Mohammed Shami, Karun Nair, Lokesh Rahul, Murugan Ashwin, Ankit Rajpoot, Nicholas Pooran, Sarfaraz Khan, Hardus Viljoen, Andrew Tye, Sam Curran, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Agnivesh Ayachi, Darshan Nalkande, Varun Chakravarthy, Arshdeep Singh, Simran Singh, Harpreet Brar
