The 14th season of IPL saw a match against Chennai Super Kings and Kolkata Knight Riders. In this match, Kolkata once again performed brilliantly on the field and won the match by 49 runs. Also registered the fifth win and secured the first position in the point table. In this match, Chennai's batting and bowling were excellent.

Chasing a huge target of 236 runs, Kolkata could not do anything special, wickets fell in the opening itself, even captain Nitish Rana could not stay on the field for some time, Kolkata had lost 5 wickets at 135 and after that, The team had to face a big defeat in this match.

Talking about not running, Ajinkya Rahane did wonders in batting. Ajinkya Rahane played an unbeaten inning of 71 runs with a strike rate of more than 200 and also scored good runs for the match with amazing innings, along with this, consecutive wins in Chennai. scored three hat-tricks