Kolkata Knight Riders captain Eoin Morgan won the toss and elected to bat first against Chennai Super Kings in the 38th Match of the IPL 2021. The match is being played at Sheikh Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi.

CSK have made on change - Sam Curran comes in to play his first match of the second leg, Dwayne Bravo, man of the match in the last match, misses out. Playing XI of both teams are:

Chennai Super Kings (CSK)- Ruturaj Gaikwad, Faf du Plessis, Moeen Ali, Ambati Rayudu, Suresh Raina, MS Dhoni(w/c), Ravindra Jadeja, Sam Curran, Shardul Thakur, Deepak Chahar, Josh Hazlewood

Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) - Shubman Gill, Venkatesh Iyer, Rahul Tripathi, Eoin Morgan(c), Nitish Rana, Dinesh Karthik(w), Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Lockie Ferguson, Varun Chakravarthy, Prasidh Krishna