We really need to pick up our game for this encounter. KKR is flourishing under Dada. Tiwary and Hodge are firing at the top, Ganguly is due for a big one at 3, Pujara is class, and that middle order of Angelo and Shah have already saved a game.
Bond is coming back iirc so i'm guessing Shah will have to sit out.
CSK need to make some changes. Spinners are looking good. Albie had some zip in his bowling too. We're missing that strike bowler though; we need a Vaas, a Malinga, or a Zaheer. Anyone know when Ntini is coming back?
If he isn't available i'd sit out Justin Kemp and play Thilan Thushara. Thushara has opened the bowling for Sri Lanka and can deliver for CSK as well. We won't be hit in the batting department either, as Thushara can hit a pretty long ball.
It may be harsh but I would drop Tyagi, you simply cannot give respite for such terrible bowling.
That being said, I wasn't that disappointed with our bowling performance. It was the batting that lost the game. Had Ashwin and Murali not put on the pressure early on, when Gilchrist was going bonkers, we may have had to chase 220+. Batting was meek. Vijay played a crap shot, Raina lost his head (and once again got out to a short ball), and Hayden's mistake was simply astonishing for someone of his experience and caliber. Vaas was amazing in the sense that he brought test match theories - such as probing the off stump, attacking, and forcing the batsman to make a mistake - successfully into the T20 format against a quality order. Deserved the MOM.
I'd go with:
Matthew Hayden
Murali Vijay
Suresh Raina
Albie Morkel
MS Dhoni
Subramanium Badrinath
Thilan Thushara
R Ashwin
L Balaji
Murali
Manpreet Gony
We have Gayle, D Hussey who has performed well for us in the last two edition(Gayle in the last)...and Shah and Mathews has performed well so far..let see what they do.
Without any doubts, this KKR team has made a wonderful comeback to IPL finally & hence am expecting a tougher contest.
