The MA Chidambaram Stadium finally sees their OG captain, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, back with the toss responsibilities as Ruturaj Gaikwad has been ruled out for the season owing to an elbow injury. And the crowd made no mistake but greeted him with a swashbuckling roar! Well, both teams—Kolkata Knight Riders and Chennai Super Kings—will be fighting to recover from their previous defeats. While KKR has been struggling with alternate results, CSK is suffering a streak! Meanwhile, KKR won the toss and decided to bowl first. Speaking in the toss, Ajinkya Rahane informed that Moeen Ali comes in replacing Spencer Johnson. And for CSK, Rahul Tripathi walks in for injured Ruturaj, and Anshul Khamboj replaces Mukesh. Here's what captains said: Ajinkya Rahane: We'll bowl first. There were a lot of positives from the last game. We as a team played really well. It is about improving each game. This looks like a good wicket, won't change much. We are batting deep, so that's why we look to bowl first and chase things down. One change - Moeen Ali comes in for Spencer. MS Dhoni: We were looking to bat first as well. Quite a few occasions where we tried to chase it down and what we realised is that the wicket slows down a bit, so if you don't get a good start then the middle order comes under pressure. He has fractured something on his elbow, so he is ruled out of the tournament. It is important, we have lost too many matches and now it is important to do the basics right - have dot balls, take our catches. A couple of games we lost by big margins, but otherwise it was about the small things - about one over going for 20 runs. Our batters are more authentic as batters, they won't slog everything. They just need to back their instincts. It is important to start well, get boundaries early on and try to get a couple of early wickets as well. Couple of changes for us - Tripathi comes in for Ruturaj, and Anshul Kambhoj in for Mukesh. Read also: Preity Zinta, Glenn Maxwell Invest in Fitness Startup Drive FITT Playing XI for both teams: Kolkata Knight Riders: Quinton de Kock (wk), Sunil Narine, Ajinkya Rahane (c), Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Andre Russell, Vaibhav Arora, Harshit Rana, Moeen Ali, Varun Chakravarthy Impact Subs: Manish Pandey, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Anukul Roy, Rovman Powell, Luvnith Sisodia. Chennai Super Kings: Rachin Ravindra, Devon Conway, Rahul Tripathi, Vijay Shankar, Shivam Dube, MS Dhoni(w/c), Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Noor Ahmad, Anshul Kamboj, Khaleel Ahmed Impact Subs: Matheesha Pathirana, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Shaik Rasheed, Jamie Overton, Deepak Hooda.