As it happened | IPL 2019: Chennai beat Kolkata by 7 wickets

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Chennai defeated Kolkata by seven wickets to end Kolkata's winning streak.

It was a comfortable win for the 'Yellow Brigade'. 

By virtue of this victory, Chennai are now on top of the table points with 10 points.   

Chennai need three runs off 16 balls to win the game. 

Ambati Rayadu lost his wicket to Piyush Chawla as Chennai lost their third wicket. 

He departed after 21 in 31 balls. 

Kedar Jadhav has come to crease. The team needs 24 in 30 balls. 

After 10 overs Chennai's score stands at  57 for the loss of two wickets. Ambati Rayadu and Du Plessis are trying hard to revive Chennai's innings. 

Suresh Raina was dismissed after a stunning catch by Piyush Chawla. What a catch!

He charged back from mid-on, kept his eye on the ball and takes a beauty. It was a flighted delivery wide of off, Raina wanted to loft it over long-on, it comes off the bottom half of the willow and goes a long way up in the air. 

Kolkata have got their man. Shane Watson departs for 17 runs in just nine balls. 

Suresh Raina comes to crease. 

Chennai have begin their chase of 109 runs. Shane Watson and Faf du Plessis have come to crease to open the innings. 

Andre Russell once again came to Kolkata's rescue and smashed a brilliant half cantury to lift his side to 108 for the loss of nine wickets after 20 overs. 

While Russell was set on crease, wickets kept falling at the other end. 

His unbeaten fifty came in just 44 balls which include five boundaries and three sixes. 

Kuldeep Yadav also departs. He was run out by Harbhajan Singh and Ambati Rayadu. 

Russell needs to take the charge before their innings get over as wickets are falling at the other end. 

Kolkata lose their seventh wicket in the form of Piyush Chawla. He was stumped. 

Harbhajan picks up his second wicket. Saw the batsman skip out, so Bhajji smartly slowed it up and pulled his length in addition to getting some spin off the deck.

Chawla was nowhere near the pitch and flashed his bat in vain after getting beaten by the flight. MSD collects it and breaks the stumps. 

A brilliant piece of fielding by Ravindra Jadeja. The all rounder jumped to stop a six hit by Russell.

Saved five runs for his team.  

Earlier, the batsman was dropped by Harbhajan Singh.

Kolkata lost its sixth wicket in the form of Shubman Gill. He was stumped by MS Dhoni off Imran Tahir.

Nothing is going in team's favour. Andre Russell is on crease and might pull off some wonders for the team. 

Nothing is going in Kolkata's favour as the side has lost its skipper also. Dinesh karthik who seemed to on the verge of being settled was dismissed by Imran Tahir. 

Karthik got caught out while tryinh to hit a shot. A brilliant catch by Harbhajan Singh. 

Kolkata are 44 for the loss of five wickets after 9 overs. 

Deepak Chahar to Robin Uthappa, catch out by Kedar Jadhav.

Next batsman is Shubman Gill.

Deepak Chahar struck again to dismiss Nitish Rana. Kolkata have lost three batsmen for just 16 runs in 4 overs.

Dinesh Karthik has come to crease. Andre Russell might be promoted seeing the condition Kolkata is in right now. 

Kolkata have lost both their openers early. Minutes after Chris Lynn departed for a duck, Harbhajan Singh struck to get rid of Sunil Narine.

The opening partnership was destructive in their last game.  

Deepak Chahar drew the first blood as the pacer dismissed Kolkata opener Chris  Lynn in the first over for a duck. 

Lynn was dangerous in the last game but failed to keep his momentum going today against Chennai.  

Robin Uthappa comes to crease.

Teams:

Kolkata (Playing XI): Chris Lynn, Sunil Narine, Robin Uthappa, Nitish Rana, Dinesh Karthik(w/c), Shubman Gill, Andre Russell, Piyush Chawla, Kuldeep Yadav, Harry Gurney, Prasidh Krishna

Chennai (Playing XI): Shane Watson, Faf du Plessis, Suresh Raina, Ambati Rayudu, MS Dhoni(w/c), Kedar Jadhav, Ravindra Jadeja, Scott Kuggeleijn, Deepak Chahar, Harbhajan Singh, Imran Tahir

Captains say!

Dinesh Karthik: We would have bowled first as well due to the dew factor. But now that we're batting first, need to put runs on the board. Yes, the bowlers practise it a lot but it's not easy at all. We're unchanged.

Meanwhile, Dhoni said, "We'll bowl first. We're getting consistent dew here over the last few days and so, we want to chase. Not much (regarding belief in player match ups. At the end of the day, you need to focus on your own strengths. If some of our bowlers are doing really well and has a good chance of getting a particular batsman out, we might try. We're playing the same team

Toss report

Chennai skipper MS Dhoni won the toss and opted to bowl first against Kolkata.

Kolkata's Andre Russell has been in great form and will be the players to watch out for. Chennai would ahve surely planned a way to deal with the run machine. 

In a clash between two teams having quality spinners, a batsman of Andre Russell's calibre may just prove to be the difference between the two sides. 

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Welcome to the live updates of Chennai vs Kolkata.

Both the teams have four wins each and have been in pretty impressive form. The winner of the game will go at the top of the points table. 

While Chennai suffered their first defeat at the hands of Mumbai, Kolkata lost to Delhi after the games got tied and went in Super Over.