Chennai Super Kings defeated Kolkata Knight Riders by 32 runs to achieve their second consecutive win in the IPL 2026 season. This was Kolkata’s fourth defeat. Kolkata has played 5 matches, in which they lost 4 and 1 match remained inconclusive due to rain.
Secondly, the situation in Chennai is also not very good. CSK has also played four matches in the season, in which they have faced defeat in three. He has won the remaining one match. Chennai started the season with a loss in three matches.
Chennai vs Kolkata Head to Head
So far 32 matches have been played between Chennai Super Kings and Kolkata Knight Riders. In these matches, Chennai has taken the lead and has won 20. Kolkata has won 11 matches. One match between the two has been inconclusive. Last season, there were 2 matches between the two teams, in which Chennai won one and Kolkata won the other. Now it will be interesting to see which team prevails over whom today.
Chennai is missing Dhoni
Chennai, which has played four matches, is obviously missing MS Dhoni. Due to injury, Dhoni could not be a part of the first four matches. While sharing the update on Dhoni on the beginning of the season i.e. March 28, the franchise had said that Mahi may remain out for the first 2 weeks. Since then, Dhoni has been seen in practice, but no update has come from Chennai.
Chennai Super Kings squad
Sanju Samson (wk), Ruturaj Gaikwad (captain), Ayush Mhatre, Sarfaraz Khan, Shivam Dubey, Dewald Brewis, Jamie Overton, Noor Ahmed, Anshul Kamboj, Gurjapaneet Singh, Khalil Ahmed, Matthew Short, Akeal Hosein, Karthik Sharma, Prashant Veer, Matt Henry, Ramakrishna Ghosh, MS Dhoni, Shreyas Gopal, Rahul Chahar, Spencer Johnson, Mukesh Chaudhary, Urvil Patel, Aman Khan, Zachary Foulkes.
Kolkata Knight Riders squad
Finn Allen, Angkrish Raghuvanshi (wk), Cameron Green, Rinku Singh, Rovman Powell, Ramandeep Singh, Anukul Roy, Sunil Narine, Navdeep Saini, Kartik Tyagi, Manish Pandey, Vaibhav Arora, Tejasvi Dahiya, Rahul Tripathi, Tim Seifert, Blessing Muzarabani, Saurabh Dubey, Sarthak Ranjan, Rachin Ravindra, Prashant Solanki, Varun Chakraborty, Mathisha Pathirana, Umran Malik, Daksh Kamra.
