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.

The head 2 headcount between both teams stands at 7-7 each. CSK won against KRR in a brilliant high scoring thriller when they met in the first leg at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai. Playing XI of both teams are:

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

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