Ind-T20 League 

Match 60 (FINAL) - Preview, Match Details, Pitch & Weather Report, Probable XIs, Fantasy Picks

Preview

The final drama before the historic saga ends. Kolkata did the unthinkable and reached their third final and will now face Chennai at Dubai on Friday. The repeat of the 2012 final is on the card but the men in yellow will come all guns blazing in the night of the finals.

With just 2 wins in the first seven games, Kolkata was not considered a threat and everyone thought that beating Kolkata would be a cakewalk. Well, the men in purple did something that no one really thought of. Venkatesh Iyer – the man who changed Kolkata’s playing style and made them reach to another final. The likes of Shubman Gill, Rahul Tripathi and Nitish Rana supported him perfectly and thus Kolkata did the unthinkable in the second half of the season.

But where did everything change for Kolkata? Beating Mumbai in the second leg was definitely the turning point. They got the confidence from there which helped them to gain the momentum. The bowlers as well deserve a lot of credit if not the most. There’s a famous saying in cricket that batters win you games but bowlers win you tournaments. Something similar happened with Kolkata. Varun Chakravarthy, Lockie Ferguson, Sunil Narine, Shivam Mavi and Shakib Al Hasan have been brilliant with the bowl in the last few matches which eventually created their path. If just one more game goes in their way, we might get one more team with three championships.

However, the one with three championships won’t let it happen so easily. Chennai is in red hot form. Even though they lost their last few matches in the league but in the Qualifiers 2, the men in yellow showed why they are such a dangerous team. The likes of Rituraj Gaikwad and Faf Du Plessis have been consistent and now Robin Uthappa and MS Dhoni have also come into the picture and are winning games for Chennai.

Chennai will be playing their 9th final on Friday. By far the most by any team in the history of the tournament. This also means that the team has lost most of the finals. Their arch-rivals Mumbai have five trophies in their kit. They would want this trophy desperately to reduce the margins and with the kind of players they have, they should definitely dream for their fourth!

Match Details

Match: CHE vs KOL, 60th Match, Indian T20 League 2021

Date: Friday, October 15, 2021

Time: 7:30 PM

Venue: Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Dubai.

Pitch & Weather Report

The pitch will be much better than the last two matches we saw at Sharjah. Teams should target 160 minimum in order to win the title. Batting second may help!

The average temperature will be around 32 degree Celsius in Dubai and the humidity will be around 57%.

CHE vs KOL Squads

CHE:  Ruturaj Gaikwad, Faf du Plessis, Suresh Raina, Moeen Ali, Ambati Rayudu, MS Dhoni(w/c), Ravindra Jadeja, Sam Curran, Shardul Thakur, KM Asif, Josh Hazlewood, Deepak Chahar, Dwayne Bravo, Imran Tahir, Robin Uthappa, Cheteshwar Pujara, Karn Sharma, Jason Behrendorff, Krishnappa Gowtham, Lungi Ngidi, Mitchell Santner, Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore, Hari Nishanth, N Jagadeesan, Harishankar Reddy, Bhagath Varma.

KOL: Shubman Gill, Venkatesh Iyer, Nitish Rana, Rahul Tripathi, Eoin Morgan(c), Dinesh Karthik(w), Shakib Al Hasan, Sunil Narine, Lockie Ferguson, Shivam Mavi, Varun Chakaravarthy, Tim Southee, Harbhajan Singh, Andre Russell, Ben Cutting, Karun Nair, Pawan Negi, Kuldeep Yadav, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Sheldon Jackson, Sandeep Warrier, Tim Seifert, Prasidh Krishna, Rinku Singh, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Vaibhav Arora

Che vs Kol Probable XIs 

Che:  Ruturaj Gaikwad, Faf du Plessis, Moeen Ali, Ambati Rayudu, Robin Uthappa, MS Dhoni, Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Josh Hazlewood, Sam Curran, Deepak Chahar.

Kol: Shubman Gill, Venkatesh Iyer, Nitish Rana, Rahul Tripathi, Eoin Morgan (c), Dinesh Karthik (wk), Shakib Al Hasan/Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Lockie Ferguson, Shivam Mavi, Varun Chakaravarthy

Match Prediction

After a terrible season last time around, Captain cool has shown why you can’t rule him or his team out. They have been a consistent side throughout this Indian T20 League and may just clinch the trophy. However, for that, the top order needs to play exceptional cricket against one of the best bowling sides of the tournament. Don’t rule Kolkata out though. As mentioned earlier, they never lost a final!

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