Chennai Super Kings Kolkata Knight Riders (CSK vs KKR) are fighting in the 25th match of the 18th season of the Indian Premier League. CSK has suffered a major setback before this match in Chennai. The regular captain of the team, Rituraj Gaikwad, has been ruled out of the entire season due to Injury. In such a situation, MS Dhoni has been given the responsibility of captaincy in his place. Shortly from now, the first ball of the CSK vs KKR match will be bowled, but before that the Kolkata Knight Riders won the bowling.

Chennai Super Kings shocked

The IPL 2025 has been very upscoming for five-time champions Chennai Super Kings. After starting the season with victory, he had to face defeat in four consecutive matches. Due to this demonstration, the condition in his points table has deteriorated. In such a situation, CSK will be eyeing Kolkata Knight Riders and returning to the victory track. But before this, bad news has come for Chennai and his fans. In fact, due to the fracture in the elbow, Rituraj Gaikwad (Ruturaj Gaikwad (Ruturaj Gaikwad has been eliminated from IPL 2025. MS Dhoni has been replaced by the team. Therefore, all eyes will be on the CSK vs KKR match on the CSK vs KKR match whether the super kings are able to win or not.

KKR won the toss and chose bowling

Before the match started, MS Dhoni and Ajinkya Rahane came to the ground. After this, the toss coin between the two was thrown, which fell in favor of Kolkata Knight Riders and the captain selected the bowling and called Chennai Super Kings for the first batting. The defending champion Kolkata has landed with a change in this match. Moin Ali has been included in the playing XI in place of Spenser Johnson. On the other hand, Chennai Super Kings have given a chance to Rahul Tripathi as a replacement of Rituraj Gaikwad. While Anshul Kamboj replaced Mukesh Chaudhary.

Chennai-Kolkata's playing for CSK vs KKR match-XI

Kolkata Knight Riders' playing XI: Quinton de Kock (W), Sunil Naren, Ajinkya Rahane (C), Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Moin Ali, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Harshit Rana, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakraborty

Chennai Super Kings Playing XI: Rachin Ravindra, Davon Conway, Rahul Tripathi, Vijay Shankar, Shivam Dubey, MS Dhoni (wicketkeeper/captain), Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Noor Ahmed, Anshul Kamboj, Khalil Ahmed