Big picture - Tall ask for KKR in Chennai

Team news - can Ben Stokes break into the CSK XI

Chennai Super Kings WWLLW (last five completed games, most recent first)
Kolkata Knight Riders LWWLW

KKR are likely to be unchanged, ready to bank on their spin trio of Sunil Narine, Varun Chakravarthy and Suyash Sharma, who is likely to be subbed in or out for one of the batters, along with Anukul Roy.

Kolkata Knight Riders (probable XII): 1 Jason Roy, 2 Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), 3 Venkatesh Iyer, 4 Nitish Rana, 5 Andre Russell, 6 Rinku Singh, 7 Shardul Thakur, 8 Sunil Narine, 9 Harshit Rana, 10 Vaibhav Arora, 11 Varun Chakravarthy, 12 Suyash Sharma

Dube is likely to be subbed in or out with one of the frontline bowlers, depending on whether they bat or bowl first.

Chennai Super Kings (probable XII): 1 Devon Conway, 2 Ruturaj Gaikwad, 3 Ajinkya Rahane, 4 Ambati Rayudu, 5 Shivam Dube, 6 Moeen Ali, 7 Ravindra Jadeja, 8 MS Dhoni (capt, wk), 9 Deepak Chahar, 10 Maheesh Theekshana, 11 Matheesha Pathirana, 12 Tushar Deshpande

With the day temperature expected to touch 40 degrees Celsius, the evening will be extremely hot and humid. It remains to be seen if they dish out another black-soil pitch because of the spin resources in KKR, but it is expected to be slow again.