IPL Fantasy League 2021 – Match 5, KKR vs MI – Fantasy Tips

The 5th match in this IPL 2021 season will start at 7:30 PM IST between Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Mumbai Indians (MI) in Chennai. In this article let us discuss the Season Long Fantasy League team setup for Match 5.

While there have been some good batting performances at Chepauk, it was not too easy to bat for many batsmen. We currently have five players for today’s match in our fantasy team. KKR plays their next match in five days and MI plays their next match in four days. So we will make just one transfer along with the free uncapped transfer.

Players available for the Current Match: Ishan Kishan (MI), Shubman Gill (MI), Andre Russel (KKR), Krunal Pandya (MI), Varun Chakravarthy (KKR)

Number of Transfers: One (+ One uncapped)

Read the Fantasy Season Preview articles here:

IPL 2021 Season Fantasy – Kolkata Knight Riders Team Preview

IPL 2021 Season Fantasy – Mumbai Indians Team Preview

Number of transfers Remaining: 104

Transfer Out: Ben Stokes (RR), Mayank Agarwal (PBKS)

Mayank Agarwal (PBKS): Punjab plays their next match in four days. So we transferred him out.

Ben Stokes (RR): Ben Stokes is the expensive player(10.5 fantasy credits) in our fantasy team and we will not be able to carry him to the next RR match.

Read the article on How To Play and Tips here: IPL 2021 Season Fantasy – How to Play, Transfer Tips and More

Transfer In:

Suryakumar Yadav (MI): Suryakumar Yadav was playing well but dismissed cheaply last time. He is available at 9.5 Credits and having him will help in getting high-value players for the next match RCB vs SRH.

Uncapped Transfer In:

Nitish Rana (KKR): We transferred out Nitish Rana in the previous match so that we can get him back in this match as a free uncapped substitution.

Here’s our Fantasy team:

Ishan Kishan, Sanju Samson, Manish Pandey, Shubman Gill, Nitish Rana, Suryakumar Yadav (VC), Krunal Pandya, Andre Russell (C), Chetan Sakariya, Varun Chakravarthy, T Natarajan

Captain: Andre Russel (KKR)

Andre Russel bowled well in the last match. We picked him as captain due to his all-round abilities despite his poor batting since last season in IPL.

Vice Captain: Suryakumar Yadav(MI)

Note: In the last match, Kartik Tyagi did not play. So, in our fantasy team, we replaced Kartik Tyagi (RR) with like-for-like replacement Chetan Sakariya (RR).

Disclaimer: There is no single perfect template to play fantasy league. Understand that this is our way of playing the game. We provide the rationale behind our player selection, which you may or may not agree with it. Just understand the key insights from the article and play it in your style and have fun.