Kolkata Knight Riders captain Eoin Morgan won the toss and elected to bowl first against Chennai Super Kings in the Final of the IPL 2021. The match is being played at Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Dubai 

Head 2 head count between CSK & KKR before this final stands at 16-8 with Chennai dominating Kolkata. Super Kings have defeated Knight Riders both the times they've met earlier in this season. Playing XI of both teams are:

Chennai Super Kings (CSK) - Ruturaj Gaikwad, Faf du Plessis, Robin Uthappa, Moeen Ali, Ambati Rayudu, MS Dhoni (c&wk), Ravindra Jadeja, Dwayne Bravo, Shardul Thakur, Deepak Chahar, Josh Hazlewood

Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) - Shubman Gill, Venkatesh Iyer, Nitish Rana, Rahul Tripathi, Eoin Morgan (c), Dinesh Karthik (wk), Shakib Al Hasan, Sunil Narine, Lockie Ferguson, Shivam Mavi, Varun Chakravarthy