Kolkata Knight Riders Captain Eoin Morgan Won the toss and elected to Field first against Mumbai Indians in the fifth match of IPL 2021. The match is being played at MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai.

KKR had won their first match, while MI had lost the opening match of the season. However, KKR is on a losing streak against MI (9 out of last 10 matches) & would like to break the cycle.

Playing XI of both teams are as follows: 

Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) - Nitish Rana, Shubman Gill, Rahul Tripathi, Eoin Morgan (c), Andre Russell, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Shakib al Hasan, Pat Cummins, Harbhajan Singh, Prasidh Krishna, Varun Chakravarthy.

Mumbai Indians (MI) - Rohit Sharma (c), Quinton de Kock (wk), Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan, Hardik Pandya, Kieron Pollard, Krunal Pandya, Rahul Chahar, Marco Jansen, Trent Boult, Jasprit Bumrah