Shreyas Iyer, the skipper of Punjab Kings, says that they are more focused on the process rather than just thinking for the win, and this is what they have done throughout the journey. Mentions that unfortunately, they did not get the points in the last game, but you cannot control the weather, and the boys are looking in high spirits. States that it is unfortunate that Glenn Maxwell has fractured his finger, and they haven’t decided about the replacement yet. Tells that they have a variety of players in their squad who can play whenever they need, and they bring different skill sets. Informs that they are going in with the same team as he is not sure who they have left out from the last playing XI.
Impact Players for Chennai Super Kings - Anshul Kamboj, Ravichandran Ashwin, Jamie Overton, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Ramakrishna Ghosh.
Chennai Super Kings (Playing XI) - Ayush Mhatre, Shaik Rasheed, Sam Curran, Ravindra Jadeja, Dewald Brevis, Shivam Dube, Deepak Hooda, MS Dhoni (C/WK), Noor Ahmad, Khaleel Ahmed, Matheesha Pathirana.
Impact Players for Punjab Kings - Prabhsimran Singh, Xavier Bartlett, Praveen Dubey, Musheer Khan, Vyshak Vijaykumar.
Punjab Kings (Playing XI) - Priyansh Arya, Josh Inglis (WK), Shreyas Iyer (C), Nehal Wadhera, Shashank Singh, Harpreet Brar (In place of Glenn Maxwell), Marco Jansen, Azmatullah Omarzai, Suryansh Shedge (In place of Prabhsimran Singh), Yuzvendra Chahal, Arshdeep Singh.
TOSS - The coin lands in favour of Shreyas Iyer and Punjab Kings have elected to BOWL first.