Eden Gardens voted best ground of IPL 2018

KOLKATA : KKR may have lost the race to the final but Eden Gardens was voted the best ground. In a tweet, Sourav Ganguly revealed this ahead of the official BCCI announcement. “The CAB is happy to inform that Eden has again been awarded the best venue and ground of IPL 2018,” the CAB president wrote on his official Twitter handle.

After nearly six weeks of rip-roaring action, it will be Captain Cool versus Captain Kane battling for supremacy in the IPL title clash at the Wankhede Stadium on Sunday.

MS Dhoni-led Chennai Super King will be aiming to cap a fairytale return to competition after the ignominy of a two-year suspension while Kane Williamsonled Sunrisers Hyderabad will be gunning for their second title, having overcome the setback of losing talismanic captain, David Warner, before the IPL began.

CSK came in with bruised ego and have battered opponents into submission in their ruthless march to the final, their seventh in nine editions. After a dream start, SRH have stuttered and have just about got in the position to challenge CSK for the crown.

RASHID FACTOR

Some of the biggest names in the game will line-up. However, all eyes will be on Afghanistan sensation Rashid Khan following Friday’s heroics in the playoff against Kolkata Knight Riders.

He will be the man CSK need to take care of if they want to lay their hands on the IPL trophy for the third time. In Friday’s knockout game, the Afghanistan legspinner scored 34 not out off 10 balls, took three wickets and two catches, and effected a run-out, single-handedly silencing the Eden Gardens crowd.

CSK have first-hand information of the destruction Rashid can cause. In their low-scoring game last Tuesday, he had threatened to derail CSK’S chase by prising out Dhoni and Dwayne Bravo