Currently, the table-topper, Chennai Super Kings (CSK) are locking horns with Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) at the iconic Eden Gardens in Kolkata. After winning the toss, the CSK skipper, MS Dhoni asked the hosts to bat first citing the batting-friendly conditions. However, the hosts started their innings brilliantly as their openers, Chris Lynn and Sunil Narine almost smashed all the Chennai bowlers in the powerplay.

During the toss, the KKR skipper, Dinesh Karthik revealed that they have made as many as three changes in the squad as Joe Denly, Carlos Braithwaite, and Lockie Ferguson made way for Lynn, Narine, and, Harry Gurney. On the other hand, CSK made no changes to their squad.

Opening the innings, KKR had a flying start as Lynn and Narine added 38 runs for the opening wicket before the latter getting out in the 5th over to Mitchell Santner. After his dismissal, Nitish Rana added 41 runs for the second wicket with Lynn before him getting out in the 11th over by Imran Tahir. In the same, over, Tahir dismissed Robin Uthappa for a golden duck.

WATCH – Imran Tahir Gets Two Important Wickets In An Over

On the second ball of the over, Rana went for a big shot over long-on but failed to execute it well as the ball dipped and spun enough to ate take the inside half of the bat and hence, Faf du Plessis took a comfortable catch.

Here is the video of the dismissal:

https://twitter.com/Vidshots1/status/1117405468761059330

After Rana’s dismissal, Lynn took a single and gave the strike to Robin Uthappa, who failed to read the leg break properly and the ball turned enough to take the leading edge and went really high and Du Plessis had to run it a good 20-25 yards from the long-off fence to take a magical catch. Having done all the hard work, Faf had to put in a full-stretch dive and got his fingers completely underneath the ball as the ball dipped further.

Here is the video of the catch:

https://twitter.com/Vidshots1/status/1117405398456078336