Surging Kolkata face smarting Chennai
ESPNcricinfo previews the IPL match between Chennai Super Kings and Kolkata Knight Riders in Chennai
Match facts
Monday, April 30, ChennaiStart time 2000 (1430 GMT)
Big Picture
Gautam Gambhir often says that if Kolkata Knight Riders play to their potential, they will be very hard to beat. It sounds like a cliché, but on yesterday's evidence, you realise where Gambhir is coming from. Restricting a batting line-up with a top four of Tillakaratne Dilshan, Chris Gayle, Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers 47 runs short of the target requires some effort. As he has done before this season, Gambhir backed his words with his bat, cracking 93 off 51 deliveries on an Eden Gardens pitch which has not exactly been easy to score on.Form guide
(completed games, most recent first)Kolkata Knight Riders: WWWLW
Players to watch
Stats and trivia
- Super Kings have a 5-2 win-loss record against Knight Riders.
- Runs have been scored faster in Chennai in the IPL, at 8.12 runs per over, than they have been in Kolkata, at 7.54.
Quotes
Brendon McCullum on Kolkata Knight Riders
Abhishek Purohit is an editorial assistant at ESPNcricinfo