CSK vs KKR Head-to-Head: The Sportsrush presents before you the Head-to-Head statistics for 23rd match of IPL 2019.
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The 23rd match of the ongoing 12th season of the Indian Premier League will be played between Chennai Super Kings and Kolkata Knight Riders at Chennai. The Top-two ranked teams in the points table have won four and lost one match each in IPL 2019 so far.
Given how well both the teams have played in the tournament, there is no hiding to the fact that the match will be one of the most looked-forwarded matches of IPL 2019. How CSK captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni will tackle the threat caused by KKR all-rounder Andre Russell will be intriguing to watch.
CSK vs KKR Head-to-Head Statistics
Total number of matches played: 21
Matches won by CSK: 12
Matches won by KKR: 8
Matches played in Chennai: 8 (CSK 6, KKR 2)
Matches played in Kolkata: 8 (CSK 4, KKR 4)
CSK average score against KKR: 155
KKR average score against CSK: 152
Most runs for CSK: 664 (Suresh Raina)
Most runs for KKR: 307 (Robin Uthappa)
Most wickets for CSK: 13 (Ravindra Jadeja)
Most wickets for KKR: 10 (Sunil Narine)
In the two matches which Super Kings and Knight Riders played in the league phase of IPL 2018, both teams ended up winning their home fixture. The common point in both the matches was that the team batting second put on display an inspired chase.
In the first match at Chennai, Russell’s 88* (36) went in vain after a combined effort from CSK’s batsmen saw them chasing a 203-run target on the penultimate delivery of the match. In the second match at Kolkata, rookie batsman Shubman Gill (57*) and captain Dinesh Karthik’s (45*) 83-run stand for the fifth wicket saw Kolkata chase down 178 runs in the 18th over.
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