Chennai Super Kings and Kolkata Knight Riders are locking horns in the final of the Indian Premier League 2021 in Dubai. CSK are playing in their ninth final and have a fourth title in sight. On the other hand, this is KKR’s third IPL final and they are eyeing a third IPL title.

Eoin Morgan won the toss and kept the trend going as he decided to bowl first. Both teams fielded an unchanged playing XI for the summit clash.

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CSK opener Faf du Plessis got an early lifeline as Dinesh Karthik missed a stumping on Shakib Al Hasan’s bowling in the third over of the match. Du Plessis went for a whip but missed the arm ball, so did Karthik as both openers ran for a bye.

Ruturaj Gaikwad punished KKR for this costly mistake. He hit the next two balls for a four and a six on the next two balls. Shakib was the unlucky bowler and he ended up leaking 13 runs in that over.

Gaikwad and Du Plessis, then, took CSK off to a good start. Gaikwad needed to score 24 runs to claim the orange cap and he did it inside the powerplay. The duo notched up the 50-run partnership in the powerplay as CSK scored 50/0 in six overs.

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Gaikwad got out after scoring 32 runs in 27 balls. Sunil Narine was the man with the wicket.

Chennai Super Kings (Playing XI): Ruturaj Gaikwad, Faf du Plessis, Robin Uthappa, Moeen Ali, Ambati Rayudu, MS Dhoni(w/c), Ravindra Jadeja, Dwayne Bravo, Shardul Thakur, Deepak Chahar, Josh Hazlewood.

Kolkata Knight Riders (Playing XI): Shubman Gill, Venkatesh Iyer, Nitish Rana, Rahul Tripathi, Dinesh Karthik(w), Eoin Morgan(c), Shakib Al Hasan, Sunil Narine, Lockie Ferguson, Shivam Mavi, Varun Chakaravarthy.