IPL 13th Match: Chennai Super Kings v Kolkata Knight Riders

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Chennai Super Kings v Kolkata Knight Riders at Cape Town

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Chennai: 1 Parthiv Patel, 2 Matthew Hayden, 3 Suresh Raina, 4 MS Dhoni (capt & wk), 5 Albie Morkel, 6 Jacob Oram/Thilan Thushara, 7 S Badrinath, 8 Joginder Sharma, 9 L Balaji, 10 Manpreet Gony, 11 Muttiah Muralitharan.

Kolkata: 1 Chris Gayle, 2 Brendon McCullum (capt/wk), 3 Laxmi Shukla, 4 Brad Hodge, 5 Sourav Ganguly, 6 Sanjay Bangar, 7 Yashpal Singh, 8 Ajit Agarkar, 9 Ishant Sharma, 10 Ajantha Mendis, 11 Anureet Singh.

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[shubhrayu]

Please No Sanjay Bangar!!!

 

[McLOVIN]

any 1 up for another horror from KKR?

 

[shubhrayu]

Well I wish BMC and Gayle shine as openers today!!!

 

[Sartaj]

Brendon "baz" mccullum must fire today or else he will surely get stripped of captaincy in the next game.he is the one under pressure and the CSK know that.
mccullum can be devastating against the bowlers of gony,balaji,oram and morkel's type and can rip the attack appart in less than 10 overs if he stays that long and possibly bat chennai out of the game.
knowing mccullum well enough,he wont play second fiddle to gayle today contrary to what CSK will be expecting.hopefully dhoni doesn't read this post of mine and the CSK will get caught off-guard by this new strategy of mccullum.
jacob oram will probably miss out today as the CSK will go for thilan thushara's services.

 

[Howsie]

I've got a feeling that McCullum and Gayle will go well against this bowling attack, well Gayle will anyway. Hopefully McCullum does, he is due to score some runs.

 

[naresh091]

With Flintoff off I would want the lineup to be like this

Parthiv/Vijay
Hayden
Raina
Badri
Albie
Dhoni
Karthik
Murali
Goni
Balaji
Ntini

12th man:Jacob Oram
Maybe they would bring in Bailey or Ntini in.
Does anyone here knows about George Bailey.Is he capable enough to fit into Freddie's shoes?

 

[McLOVIN]

Brendon "baz" mccullum must fire today or else he will surely get stripped of captaincy in the next game.he is the one under pressure and the CSK know that.

hopefully McCullum will fail, then Dada could get his captaincy back. or Gayle could have the job till he leaves, then Dada. No more McCullum

 

[Howsie]

Wow, so I'm guessing you don't like McCullum. Even if they took the captaincy of McCullum I don't think they will give it back to Ganguly.

 

[vickyrox]

KKR need to score 200 if they bat first

 

[McLOVIN]

Wow, so I'm guessing you don't like McCullum. Even if they took the captaincy of McCullum I don't think they will give it back to Ganguly.

no i like Mc, more like i dont hate him, nor i love him. he is a great hitter but i just dont want see him as a captain

 

[irottev]

I don't think they'd change captain mid season. Gayle will only be playing a few more games or something since he has to tour England. Dada should probably be captain, but his bowling and batting has been excellent without it.

I hope Oram plays. If he doesn't they're being foolish. Too good a player to waste. I'm cheering for Kolkata though, they need a win badly.

 

[sashidharan]

I hope oram fills freddie shoes and rest of the combination will remain same.But i guess joginder can be taken out and replaced by any allrounder or hitter.

KKR is good team but they have only dada and gayle as batsman and mendis to bowl so i predict CSK to win.

 

[McLOVIN]

this should be a good, unless KKR flunks

 

[naresh091]

Our death bowling is dodgy.Oram was okay sort off in the first game.But we need a specialist bowler.And Ntini would be the right man.The fact that he is a local,will come handy for him.
KKR need to be at their best to beat us(even though we arent in much great form atm).