Chennai Super Kings take on Kolkata Knight Riders in the first match of the IPL 2014 in India and the 21st match of the IPL 7 tournament. Ranchi is KKR's home ground but the CSK team will get a lot of support because of MS Dhoni and Ranchi being his hometown. Chennai has the advantage when it comes to experience at Ranchi having played a few Champion's League games here. Dwayne Smith and MS Dhoni have been the core driving force for Chennai Super Kings as the team may have had lukewarm success but the game has always been played with a lot of heart. Maish Pandey and Suryakumar Yadav have been the players to keep an eye on for Kolkata Knight Riders with special emphasis required on their bowling department. KKR has been too dependent on their bowling and it is time that their batting shows some spark to give the bowling a breather. Squads: Kolkata Knight Riders: Gautam Gambhir (c), Jacques Kallis, Robin Uthappa, Manish Pandey, Shakib Al Hasan, Manvinder Bisla (wk), Ryan ten Doeschate, Yusuf Pathan, Suryakumar Yadav, Sunil Narine, Chris Lynn, Kuldeep Yadav, Pat Cummins, Debabrata Das, Piyush Chawla, Morne Morkel, Umesh Yadav, Sayan Mondal, R Vinay Kumar, Andre Russell, Veer Pratap Singh. Chennai Super Kings: MS Dhoni (c & wk), Ravichandran Ashwin, Dwayne Bravo, Ravindra Jadeja, Suresh Raina, Francois du Plessis, Dwayne Smith, Brendon McCullum, Ashish Nehra, Mohit Sharma, Ishwar Pandey, Ben Hilfenhaus, John Hastings, Samuel Badree, Matt Henry, Mithun Manhas, Vijay Shankar, Ronit More, Baba Aparajith, Pawan Negi.

• published: 02 May 2014
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