Chennai Super Kings Vs Kolkata Knight Riders
CSK
Chennai Super Kings under the captaincy of M S Dhoni are gearing up for the fourth season of IPL. They are the only team to have reached the semi finals of all the three previous editions. In the inaugural IPL, they ended runners up to Rajasthan Royals. In the 2009 season held in South Africa, CSK Lost RCB in the semi finals. They were third time lucky and defeated Mumbai Indians by 22 runs last year to win the IPL trophy. The Chennai Super Kings went on to win the Champions League in 2010 in which the top club teams from across the world clash for supremacy in the T20 format.
CSK has retained skipper Dhoni,Raina,Albie Morkel, Murali Vijay. CSK decided to bid for Michael Hussey,Doug Bollinger,George Bailey,R.Ashwin and Sudeep Tyagi who had DONNED the yellow jersey in the previous seasons too. New arrivals included Dwayne Bravo (West ndies), Ben Hilfenhaus(Australia),Nuwan kulasekara(Srilanka) Suraj Randiv (Srilanka),Scott Styris(NZ),Tuni southee (NZ) Yo Mahesh and Wriddhiman Saha.Bravo played the last season for Mumbai Indians , while styris was a deccan charger, Saha played for KKR and Yo Mahesh was a Delhi DareDevils.Muralitharan,Perera,Hayden,Nitiny,Justin Kemp,Thushara and local boy L.Balaji have been JETTISONED.
With the dependable Dhoni, Raina,"Mr Cricket" Mike Hussey,Styris and Albie morkel to shore up the batting for CSK and with bowlers like southee, R.Ashwin,Ben Hilfenhaus and Kulasekara, CSK looks a formidable line up. Chennai fans may well be justified to look up to their team defending their title successfully.
KKR
Last three Season KKR doesn’t play well. So they are KKR management go for a totally purchased for new player. KKR Purchased highest cost player in IPL History for Gautham gambhir (11.04Crores). This seasons Gambhir has selected captaincy of the striker KKR. Infact Gambhir had also captained the Delhi Dare Devils for a while in the last 3 Seasons. And also hitting order Yusuf Pathan, Kallis, M.Diwari, Haddin and Morgan. In the Bowling order like L.balaji , Brett Lee and P. Sanghwan. Biggest Shock for KKR dropped S.Ganguly.
For the Inaugural IPL KKR was in 6th position. In this seasons he had played 13matches but he win only 6 matches and loss 7 matches.Second season KKR wins only 3 matches. IPL-3 saw a magically improved KKR with a win percentage of 50% from 14 matches. They didn’t come the semi finals still now.
KKR fans waiting for the good performance from end.
WINNING PERCENTAGE
CSK | KKR |
75% | 25% |
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