Fantasy: Can Dube continue his excellence against KKR's spin unit?

Fantasy

Venue :  MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai

Average first innings score in last three years:161%

50% of the games have been won by team batting first

Pacers have picked 55.5% of the wickets to fall here. Spinners have picked 44.5% of the wickets.

*all data from last 3 years

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Top Run scorers at this venue

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Top wicket takers at this venue

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Grand League Punts

- While all eyes would certainly be on Ravindra Jadeja, considering he's the highest wicket-taker at the venue, with 28 wickets in 40 matches, an eye should be turned towards Matheesha Pathirana, who has been scintillating. Amongst all the death-over bowlers, Pathirana has the most wickets (12), bowling 19.2 overs, the most for any bowler. What's impressive is his ability to keep the run-rate down, with his economy rate only reading 7.9, having bowled 46 dot balls.

- In the reverse fixture, it was the partnership between Ajinkya Rahane and Shivam Dube that changed the course of the game. Ever since that contest, Dube has been on the rise, including his match-winning display against Delhi Capitals the other night on a tricky surface. In the Kolkata fixture between the two sides, Dube stood tall, scoring a half-century. Against spin across the ten innings, Dube averages 44.67 and strikes at 171.8. Only Ruturaj Gaikwad (191) and Devon Conway (320) have scored more runs than Dube (114) this season at Chepauk. 

Probable XIs

Chennai Super Kings: Ruturaj Gaikwad, Devon Conway, Ajinkya Rahane, Moeen Ali, Ambati Rayudu (IP), Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, MS Dhoni (c & wk), Deepak Chahar, Tushar Deshpande, Maheesh Theekshana, Matheesha Pathirana (IP)

Kolkata Knight Riders: Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), Jason Roy, Venkatesh Iyer (IP), Nitish Rana (c), Andre Russell, Rinku Singh, Sunil Narine, Shardul Thakur, Anukul Roy, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakaravarthy, Suyash Sharma (IP)