Kochi Tuskers Kerala win the toss and will bowl

Chennai Super Kings

According to the fresh reports from the IPL 2011 season, Kochi Tuskers Kerala is all set to play against Chennai Super Kings Played at Nehu Stadium, Kochi 18 April 2011 - day/night .

Hello and Welcome to the match between Kochi and Chennai. It's been talked up as the battle of the bat, as Sid Ravi explains in his preview. You can read it here.

Kochi are on high after their win over Mumbai. That was quite some chase, spoiling the party after Sachin Tendulkar scored a century. It was a great result for the new franchise, but I still the lilac and orange is sari material.

Chennai have been pretty superb so far, and beat Bangalore two days ago. They do look very strong, so this will be a tough test for Kochi.

Kochi Tuskers Kerala squad:-

DPMD Jayawardene*, B Akhil, DA Chougule, Y Gnaneswara Rao, RV Gomez, JW Hastings, BJ Hodge, RA Jadeja, KM Jadhav, M Klinger, VVS Laxman, BB McCullum, C Madan, SH Marathe, M Muralitharan, SNJ O'Keefe, PA Patel†, NLTC Perera, RR Powar, P Prasanth, OA Shah, RP Singh, SPD Smith, S Sreesanth, TM Srivastava, R Vinay Kumar, Yashpal Singh.


Chennai Super Kings squad:-

MS Dhoni*, S Anirudha, R Ashwin, S Badrinath, GJ Bailey, DE Bollinger, DJ Bravo, F du Plessis, BW Hilfenhaus, MEK Hussey, SB Jakati, Joginder Sharma, S Randiv, KMDN Kulasekara, VY Mahesh, JA Morkel, A Mukund, SK Raina, WP Saha†, TG Southee, SB Styris, S Tyagi, K Vasudevadas, G Vignesh, M Vijay.



Umpires K Hariharan and AL Hill

TV umpire HDPK Dharmasena

Match referee Satayabrata Mukherjee

Reserve umpire KN Ananthapadmanabhan