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MS Dhoni’s Chennai vs Dinesh Karthik’s Kolkata, Cricket Score, Match 5, Indian T20 League 2018, Latest Updates: Chennai win by 5 wickets

Chennai vs Kolkata Match Latest Updates: MS Dhoni won the toss, and opted to field.

Sunil Narine, Chennai, Kolkata, Murli Vijay
Sunil Narine © AFP (file image)

Hello and welcome to CricketCountry’s live coverage of Indian T20 League 2018. The Match 6 sees MS Dhoni‘s Chennai lock horns with Dinesh Karthik‘s Kolkata in their own backyard at MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai. We will be bringing you the live updates, interesting tweets and stat facts from the cyberspace.

With the amount of pressure mounting on the Cauvery  controversy due to water crisis this might as well be Chennai’s last game at home. Chennai, having won their opening match against Mumbai will be very confident playing in front of their home crowd. Kolkata on the other hand defeated Bangalore in their opening game of the campaign by four wickets

. Sunil Narine who starred in the last match becoming the only player in the league to score 50 off 17 or less balls. He will again serve as an X-factor for the Kolkata side. Chennai faced a big blow when Kedar Jadhav was ruled out due to injury. However, they have a great bench strength and seem very balanced. With both teams having quality players we can expect a good contest between bat and ball.

Likely 11s

Chennai: Murali Vijay/Faf du Plessis, Shane Watson, Suresh Raina, AmbatiRayudu, MS Dhoni (c &wk), Dwayne Bravo, RavindraJadeja, Deepak Chahar, Harbhajan Singh, Mark Wood/Lungi Ngidi/Shardul Thakur, Imran Tahir

Kolkata: Chris Lynn, Sunil Narine, Robin Uthappa, NitishRana, Dinesh Karthik (c &wk), Rinku Singh/Shubman Gill, Andre Russell, PiyushChawla, Mitchell Johnson, KuldeepYadav, KamleshNagarkoti/Vinay Kumar

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