IPL 2021: Kolkata Knight Riders win toss and opt to bat, Sam Curran replaces Dwayne Bravo for CSK

The 38th match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021 will see Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) batting first after winning the toss against Chennai Super Kings (CSK) at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi. 

The KKR side goes unchanged, while Chennai makes one change - Sam Curran comes in for Dwayne Bravo.

Squads:

Chennai Super Kings (Playing XI): Ruturaj Gaikwad, Faf du Plessis, Moeen Ali, Ambati Rayudu, Suresh Raina, MS Dhoni(w/c), Ravindra Jadeja, Sam Curran, Shardul Thakur, Deepak Chahar, Josh Hazlewood

Kolkata Knight Riders (Playing XI): Shubman Gill, Venkatesh Iyer, Rahul Tripathi, Eoin Morgan(c), Nitish Rana, Dinesh Karthik(w), Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Lockie Ferguson, Varun Chakravarthy, Prasidh Krishna

 Toss Update @Eoin16 wins the toss & @KKRiders elect to bat against @msdhoni's @ChennaiIPL! #VIVOIPL #CSKvKKR

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— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) September 26, 2021

The MS Dhoni-led side has won both their games in the second half of the 14th edition and another win could more or else set them in the final four. However, for Kolkata, they have seen a sudden upsurge and have smashed two of the top four sides in their last two games.