Still leading the table with six wins from nine matches, the Super Kings are coming off a 22-run defeat at the hands of Sunrisers Hyderabad, and they would be happy to be back at their home ground.
On the other hand, Royal Challengers Bangalore, placed third in the standings with five victories from 10 games, recorded a convincing win over defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders in a rain-curtailed match at the Chinnaswamy Stadium yesterday.
With the likes of the big-hitting Chris Gayle, A B de Villiers and Kohli himself in the team, RCB can fancy their chances at the M A Chidambaram Stadium.
Young Mandeep Singh too fired with a cracking knock in the win over Knight Riders and he would want to impress one more time. De Villiers missed out on the last game and a big one is due from his willow.
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On the bowling front, Mitchell Starc's presence has bolstered RCB's bowling. Varun Aaron has been wayward often and Yuzvendra Chahal will take care of the spin department.
CSK have just lost a game and they would be doubly determined to get back to winning ways.
Led by the experienced Mahendra Singh Dhoni, two-time winners CSK boast of some high quality batsmen in swashbuckling opener Brendon McCullum, Dwayne Smith, Suresh Raina and Dwayne Bravo besides the skipper himself.
Almost all of them got starts in the previous match but could not capitalise, and they will have to correct it tomorrow.
Barring Bravo, who finished with creditable figures of 3/25 in a high-scoring game, and Ashish Nehra to an extent, the CSK bowlers were smashed around by David Warner and co yesterday, and another tough task awaits them.