CSK vs KKR Head to Head Record and Stats

Chennai Super Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders stats, season by season

KKR have won more meetings than CSK in only three seasons: 2009, 2012 and 2022. Chennai won every meeting in five seasons (2008, 2010, 2013, 2019, 2021). The 2021 sweep was three from three, ending with the final in Dubai on 15 Oct 2021, won by 27 runs.

KKR’s best year was 2012, when they won two of three, including the final at Chepauk on 27 May 2012. Since 2022 the record is close to even, with KKR winning three of the seven games, but CSK still took the last two: a 2-wicket squeaker in Kolkata on 7 May 2025, then the 32-run home win.

Home advantage helps less than you might expect. CSK lead 9-4 at Chepauk and 7-4 at Eden Gardens, so they have the better record in Kolkata too. The MA Chidambaram Stadium pitch report and the Eden Gardens pitch report show how each ground plays in general.

Chasing, totals and the biggest wins

This is a chasing fixture: 22 wins for the second-innings side, only 10 when setting a total; the typical first innings is a modest 161. The best chase came on 10 Apr 2018 in Chennai, when CSK made 205/5 off 19.5 overs after Andre Russell’s 88* off 36 balls, with 11 sixes, had taken KKR to 202/6.

Chennai’s 235/4, made on 23 Apr 2023 at Eden Gardens, is the fixture’s top total and led to a 49-run victory. Their biggest win by runs is older: 55 runs at Eden Gardens on 16 Mar 2010, when KKR folded for 109, their lowest against Chennai. KKR’s own heaviest win came on 20 May 2014, an 8-wicket result in Kolkata.

Two innings of 95 share the top spot: Michael Hussey’s (MEK Hussey) for CSK on 28 Apr 2013, in a game where MS Bisla replied with 92 for KKR, and Faf du Plessis’s 95* in 2021.

Players who shaped the CSK vs KKR record

Suresh Raina (SK Raina) of Chennai Super Kings scored 610 across 19 innings, more than anyone, with 5 fifties. MS Dhoni has 515 in 26 innings at 42.92, and du Plessis 423 at 47.00. Russell is KKR’s top scorer on 343, and he got them quickly, at 167.32.

Sunil Narine (SP Narine) of KKR has 27 wickets, the most, and has gone for only 6.27 an over. Ravindra Jadeja (RA Jadeja) is next with 21, holds the best figures of 4/12 from 2 May 2014 in Ranchi, and he walked off with the match award on 4 occasions; nobody else in these games has as many. Noor Ahmad’s 8 wickets from 3 appearances have cost 7.50 apiece. Club-wide figures sit on the CSK records page and the Kolkata Knight Riders records page; for KKR’s other big rivalry see MI vs KKR.