Chennai Super Kings and Kolkata Knight Riders will face each other in the opening match of IPL 2022, which is scheduled to be held on 26 March 2022 at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. The match will start at 19:30 local time.

CSK won the last match between the two teams and won their fourth IPL title. In their head-to-head competition, CSK is ahead of KKR with 4 wins in the last 5 matches.

Chennai Super Kings captain MS Dhoni has decided to lead all-rounder Rabindra Jadeja ahead of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022. Chennai Super Kings have confirmed this through an official release on Thursday 24th March.

Moin Ali has not yet arrived in India as he is still waiting in Birmingham for his visa approval from the Indian Commission in the UK. He will not be able to play the 1st match.

Australian pacers Pat Cummins and Aaron Finch will also miss a few matches for KKR due to their ongoing national assignments in Pakistan.

Wankhede’s pitch provides balanced support to both the batsman and the bowler. The pacers may try to take some wickets on this high-scoring pitch. The equivalent score is about 195

The weather forecast said that the sky will be clear on the day of the match, where the temperature will be around 27 degrees Celsius.

The toss plays an important role in every match. The idea is that whoever wins the toss has a better chance of winning. According to the prediction of the toss, the team that wins the toss may decide to bowl first.

• CSK Won: 4
• KKR Won: 1
• Tied: 0
• No Result: 0

TV Channels:

• India – Star Sports
• UK – Sky Cricket
• Australia – Fox Sport

Chennai Super Kings are a stronger team than Kolkata Knight Riders overall. They have the best players in the T20 format. The batting order of this team is also strong and some well-known hitters of the T20 format are part of this squad, so the chances of Chennai Super Kings winning today’s match have increased. The probability of winning both the matches in today’s match is given below:

Chennai Super Kings have a 52% chance to win this match
Kolkata Knight Riders have a 48% chance to win this match

Captain: Ravindra Jadeja
Vice-Captain: Shreyas Iyer
MS Dhoni, Ambati Rayudu, Nitish Rana, Tim Southee, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Varun Chakravarthy, Andre Russell, Venkatesh Iyer, Dwayne Bravo

• Match: CSK vs KKR, IPL 2022, 1st Match
• Venue: Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai
• Time: 02:00 PM GMT, 07:30 PM LOCAL, 7:30 PM IST
• Date: 26 March 2022

Ravindra Jadeja (C), MS Dhoni (WK), Moeen Ali , Bhagath Varma, Dwayne Bravo , Ambati Rayudu, Deepak Chahar, Devon Conway, Tushar Deshpande, Shivam Dube, Ruturaj Gaikwad , KM Asif , Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Hari Nishaanth, Narayan Jagadeesan, Chris Jordan, Adam Milne, Mukesh Choudhary, Dwaine Pretorius, Mitchell Santner, Subhranshu Senapati, Simarjeet Singh, Prashant Solanki , Maheesh Theekshana , Robin Uthappa

Ravindra Jadeja(C), MS Dhoni (WK), Ruturaj Gaikwad, Devon Conway, Ambati Rayudu, Robin Uthappa, Dwayne Bravo, Shivam Dube, Mitchell Santner, Chris Jordan, Tushar Deshpande

Shreyas Iyer (C), Aman Khan, Ashok Sharma , Sam Billings ( WK), Pat Cummins, Aaron Finch, Baba Indrajith, Venkatesh Iyer, Sheldon Jackson, Chamika Karunaratne , Mohammad Nabi, Sunil Narine , Pratham Singh, Ajinkya Rahane, Ramesh Kumar, Nitish Rana, Rasikh Salam, Anukul Roy, Andre Russell, Shivam Mavi, Rinku Singh, Tim Southee, Abhijeet Tomar, Varun Chakravarthy, Umesh Yadav