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Kolkata Knight Riders v Chennai Super Kings tips

Sunil Narine's battle against the Chennai Super Kings will be one to watch out for. (credit: DIBYANGSHU SARKAR/AFP/Getty Images)
Tips on today's final

Kolkata
This is Kolkata's first IPL final and although it has not been a vintage year they fully deserve their stuts after being consistently hard to beat throughout. Mind you, we would say that having tipped them for glory at the start!

They have some injury concerns. Manoy Tiwary, the batsman, has a hamstring strain but is hopeful of returning to replace Laxmi Ratan Shukla. There is also a worry over L Balaji, the seamer.


Chennai
The coackroaches of IPL. They are never killed of. For all the world this year looked like being the one where the Super Kings would be anything but. Their resurgence, however, has been typical of champions. They have won five of their last six. Murali Vijay hit 113 off 58 balls to stun Delhi Dardevils in the 'semi-final'. Confidence will be overflowing in an unchanged team.


Venue and conditions
Here are the first-innings scores for the Chidambaram Stadium in this year's tournament: 222, 114, 160, 139, 156, 146, 164, 205 and 112. Unpreditcable no? Indeed. Those figures make for an average of 158. Given that Chennai smashed 222 in their 'semi' against Delhi on this ground only two days ago it would be fair to reckon that 160 may be breached.


Match odds
Kolkata are  2.24 at Betfair for victory. Chennai are1.79 which seems plenty short enough considering KKR were a better outfit in quialifying.

But Chennai have a real hold over punters. This is their third final and having 'big' players like MS Dhoni and Dwayne Bravo down the order means a side can never be confident of having them on the rack.

Vijay's innings against Delhi was one that epitomised the mood in the camp and KKR, particularly if their bowling plans are disrupted by the loss of Balaji, may have their work cut out to keep this batting line-up quiet. The teams have a win each on previous meetings this year.


Top KKR batsmanWe have been against Brendon McCullum all tournament but it appears this surface may suit his buccaneering style. He is 5.30. Gautam Gambhir top scored when the sides last met. He is 3.60 favourite.


Top Chennai batsmanVijay is 4.30 after his heroics and we should be thankful for that because it pushes out Dhoni to a whopping 6.80. That is not a bad price at all for the man who loves the grand stage.


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