Vikrant Shekhawat : Apr 13, 2021, 04:04 PM
The fifth match of the 14th season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) will be played between Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Mumbai Indians (MI) today (Tuesday). Both teams will clash at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai. This will be the second match of KKR and Mumbai Indians this season.KKR played the first match against Sunrisers Hyderabad. He had defeated the team captained by David Warner. The same, Mumbai Indians lost to RCB in the first match.KKR's team can field the same 11 players against Mumbai Indians who played against Sunrisers Hyderabad. That is, there is little hope of change in the team. At the same time, there will not be much change in the team of Mumbai Indians equipped with more than one star players. In the final eleven, veteran Piyush Chawla may be included in place of spinner Rahul Chahar, who proved expensive in the first match.Mumbai Indians have the upper handIn the IPL, there have been 27 matches between Mumbai Indians and Kolkata Knight Riders so far. Mumbai has won 21 matches, while Kolkata has won 6. Mumbai also had a heavy upper hand in the last 5 matches. He won 4 matches.In fact, KKR's intentions will be to settle the old account of the five-time champion Mumbai. KKR have won just one of the last 12 matches against Mumbai.Kolkata Knight Riders: Eoin Morgan (Captain), Dinesh Karthik, Shubman Gill, Nitish Rana, Andre Russell, Pat Cummins, Eminent Krishna, Rahul Tripathi, Varun Chakraborty, Shakib Al Hasan, Harbhajan Singh.Mumbai Indians: Rohit Sharma (captain), Suryakumar Yadav, Chris Lynn, Jaspreet Bumrah, Trent Boult, Hardik Pandya, Kieron Pollard, Krunal Pandya, Ishaan Kishan, Piyush Chawla, Marco Jensen.