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Kolkata: Their winning streak halted, Kolkata Knight Riders would feel the Chennai heat at home on Monday especially after the two-time defending champions put their campaign back on track with two successive wins in the Indian Premier League.
Known for their last minute scrambles, the Chennai Super Kings need to win their remaining two matches to assure themselves of a berth in the last-four and their captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has a reputation of coming up with the best in pressure cooker situations.
On the other hand, a win for the Knight Riders would hand them the pole position and a guaranteed place in the play-offs.
Chennai's nine-wicket thrashing of leaders Delhi Daredevils on Saturday could not have come at a better time, as the Knight Riders were given a wake-up call by a Rohit Sharma-inspired Mumbai Indians in the afternoon match of the same day.
After their humiliating 27-run loss at home, the Knight Riders would find themselves down while the Super Kings would look to avenge their five-wicket defeat in the first leg of the tournament.
It was a ruthless performance by the Super Kings on Saturday as they did not allow the leaders to fight back right from the beginning when Australian quick Ben Hilfenhaus castled Virender Sehwag in the opening over.
It was not only Hilfenhuas but South African Albie Morkel was also at his best with impressive figures of 4-0-15-1 to restrict Delhi TO 114 for 5, a total that allowed the failing Chennai Super Kings batters to click for a win with 28 balls to spare.
The best thing to have happened for the Super Kings was Murali Vijay regaining his touch. With 134 runs from his previous nine games, the pressure was on Vijay to reproduce his old form and the right-hander did just that, shepherding the chase with 48 not out from 40 balls (5x4, 1x6).
Woefully out of form, left-handed Suresh Raina too seemed to have found his touch with 20-ball 28 not out, laced with two sixes and one four.
An interesting battle would be on the cards when Dhoni takes on Sunil Narine to unravel his mystery spin as the Knight Riders would hope that their bowling after the last evening's slip up bounce back and restrict the Chennai batsmen on the tailor-made slow Eden track. He has maintained a frugal economy rate of 5.47 with 15 wickets from 10 matches while Shakib has 10 from four outings (at 6.06).
Teams from
Kolkata Knight Riders: Gautam Gambhir (captain), Brendon McCullum (wk), Manvinder Bisla (wk), Jacques Kallis, Manoj Tiwary, Yusuf Pathan, Debabrata Das, Shakib Al Hasan, Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Rajat Bhatia, Brett Lee, Sunil Narine, Eoin Morgan, Marchant de Lange, Ryan ten Doeschate, Chirag Jani, Iqbal Abdulla, Iresh Saxena, Jaidev Unadkat, Laxmipathy Balaji, Pradeep Sangwan, Sanju Samson, Sarabjit Singh Ladda and Mohammad Shami Ahmed.
Chennai Super Kings: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (captain & wk), Michael Hussey, Murali Vijay, Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja, Srikkanth Anirudha, Dwayne Bravo, Albie Morkel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ben Hilfenhaus, Shadab Jakati, Doug Bollinger, Faf du Plessis, George Bailey, Scott Styris, Suraj Randiv, Abhinav Mukund, Joginder Sharma, Kuthethur Vasudevadas, Subramaniam Badrinath, Sudeep Tyagi, Yo Mahesh and Wriddhiman Saha (wk).
Match facts
Monday May 14, 2012 (day/night)
Start time 20:00 local (14:30 GMT)
