The Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) journey south to tackle the Chennai Tremendous Kings (CSK) in Match 22 of the 2026 Indian Premier League (IPL) on the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai on Tuesday, April 14.
KKR stay the one facet but to style victory on this 12 months’s event. With 4 video games performed, the three-time champions have only one level to their title, that coming because of a rain-affected recreation towards the Punjab Kings on the Eden Gardens.
The Ajinkya Rahane-led facet suffered their most up-to-date defeat by the hands of the Lucknow Tremendous Giants in a last-over thriller. LSG wanted seven runs of the final two balls with KKR favourites to win their first recreation of the brand new season. Mukul Choudhary, nevertheless, had different concepts, hitting a six off the penultimate ball from Vaibhav Arora to rescue a win from the jaws of defeat.
Regardless of their poor kind within the event, KKR are slowly discovering their ultimate taking part in XI. Their batting has been in some respectable kind, however they’ll want their bowling to fireside towards CSK in the event that they want to safe their first two factors of the 2026 season.
Right here is KKR’s strongest predicted XI vs CSK, Match 22, IPL 2026:
Prime Order: Finn Allen, Ajinkya Rahane (C), Cameron Inexperienced
KKR desperately want their prime order to flourish towards CSK to provide them a strong platform to construct the innings on. The opening duo of Finn Allen and Ajinkya Rahane is able to scoring large within the first six overs of the sport, however haven’t accomplished it persistently.
Quantity three additionally stays a contentious matter for KKR. Relying on the beginning given to them by their openers, the administration might ship both Cameron Inexperienced or Angkrish Raghuvanshi. The latter has scored 155 runs from 4 innings at a strike-rate of 158.16.
