Noting Chennai’s underwhelming batting performance against KKR in the first powerplay, Srikkanth refused to hold himself and said batting looked like practice for a test match.
The MS Dhoni-led CSK will next travel to Lucknow to take on Rishabh Pant-led Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) at the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium on Monday, April 14.
In the 16th over of the match, Sunil Narine’s delivery crashed onto MS Dhoni’s pads following which he was declared out by the umpire on the KKR spinner’s appeal.
After the early fall of openers, other CSK batters looked timid, reaching 103/9 in 20 overs before KKR won with eight wickets in hand and 59 balls to spare.
With his 3/13 figures, Narine also became the most successful spinner against CSK in the tournament’s history.
With fans anticipating a thrilling contest due to the return of MS Dhoni to CSK’s captaincy mantle due to Ruturaj Gaikwad’s injury, the reality turned out to be polar opposite as KKR handed a massive 8-wicket defeat to the home team with 59 balls to spare.
With this win, KKR jumped to the third place in the IPL points table, whereas CSK continue to reel at the ninth place having lost five games on the trot.
Notably with the return of MS Dhoni as CSK captain, he became the oldest captain in the IPL, aged 43 years and 278 days.
Noting CSK’s egregious batting performance, netizen on X haven’t shown mercy on MS Dhoni and his men
KKR skipper Ajinkya Rahane came out on top in the toss war, thus inviting the hosts, CSK to bat first at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai.
Against LSG at the iconic Eden Gardens on April 8, KKR sent Rinku to bat at number eight while chasing a mammoth total of 239 runs.
It is to be noted that Bravo was part of four of CSK’s title-winning campaigns under MS Dhoni’s leadership.
Let’s have a look at fantasy cricket tips, pitch report, probable XIs, captain, vice captain and more ahead of the Chennai Super Kings versus Kolkata Knight Riders IPL 2025 25th match.
Chennai Super Kings (CSK) will take on defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in match number 25 of IPL 2025 at M.A Chidambaram Stadium on April 11
The match between Chennai Super Kings and Kolkata Knight Riders will be played at MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai on April 11, 2025, at 7:30 P.M.
With a win in their last fixture, CSK took the fourth spot in the IPL 2024 points table, whereas KKR are comfortably sitting at the second place after their first defeat of the season.
CSK ended the first innings with a score of 144 runs while losing six wickets.
Ajinkya Rahane (44 of 34 balls) held one end together for KKR while the other batsmen also made valuable contributions.
The cricket fans have also shown support to the cricketer by sharing the tweet.
Although run-scoring was not easy at the Wankhede pitch, MS Dhoni backed himself to go deep and finish the innings on a high.
As CSK lost by a fine margin, some interesting reactions came from fans on Twitter.
While Bravo fans had got accustomed to his ‘Champion’ celebration, the pacer surprised them with a new one.
The biggest cheer from the fans at the Wankhede Stadium came in when MS Dhoni came in to bat.
The new anthem was shared by CSK on their social media account. “Ritual ? #WhistlePodu Anthem 2022! ? #Yellove ??,” the video was captioned.
The match is expected to set up a solid foundation for the month-long cricketing festival, which will bring the best out of top-notch cricketers worldwide.
While it was Chennai who had the last laugh in IPL 2021, beating Kolkata in the summit clash to lift their title number four, this is a new-look KKR unit with a different captain at the helm.
Both sides have been quite a successful history in the tournament and were finalists of the 2021st season of IPL.
The starting price of the tickets for the first game is INR 2,500. Tickets for stands closer to the ground have been priced at INR 3,500 and INR 4,000.
Bravo himself took to social media to make the announcement. “Something Interesting is coming soon! ?? ? #champion47 #numberone,” he captioned a poster of his new release.
The England all-rounder has failed to report to the CSK camp due to some visa issues in his country.
Chennai Super Kings skipper MS Dhoni has now won most T20 tournaments as captain overall.
Soon after the result, the netizens flooded the microblogging website with humourous posts. Some also praised the champions- CSK.
All the CSK players were indeed delighted with their 4th ever IPL triumph.
With so much confusion around, the replays were shown on the big screen which clarified everything.
After the dropped chance, the KKR opener broke free and played some glorious shots to get his side off to a good start.
However, Bhatia added that Venkatesh should not be roped in into the national squad so early.
Tripathi was replaced by Kamlesh Nagarkoti as a result, who took his place at deep mid-wicket.
The 55-year-old was full of praise for Thala for scripting a remarkable turnaround this season after their early ouster from IPL 2020.
Given that it was Jaffer picking his team for the final on social media, the style of presentation had to be different from that of others.
While Dhoni has scored 114 runs in 11 innings in IPL 2021, Morgan only managed 129 runs in 15 innings.
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All eyes will be on the openers of both sides as they have done the bulk of scoring for their respective sides throughout the tournament.
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Ravindra Jadeja also completed the milestone of hitting 50 sixes for Chennai Super Kings in IPL.
The 37-year-old realised that the team banks on him to field at the hotspots and opted to not to leave the field to attend to his knee.
Dhoni’s effort went in vain as the umpires called it a no-ball after looking at the replays.
Luck has its limits. The same happened with KKR opener Shubman Gill, whose string of lucky escapes ran out pretty quickly today.
Skipper Eoin Morgan will be playing his 50th match for KKR in IPL on Sunday.
While Chennai have been their usual self, Kolkata have been phenomenal, especially in batting.
Interestingly, these two teams have won against the same duo of Bangalore and Mumbai in the second half.
Karthik and Russel steadied the ship and added 50 runs in no time. Their onslaught took the team to 112 within 11.2 overs.
KKR all-rounder Pat Cummins recorded the highest score ever in IPL while batting at number 8 position.
After KKR’s last-over loss to Chennai, Eoin Morgan had another reason to be disappointed as he was fined Rs 12 lakh for slow over-rate.