Chennai's Super Kings broke the line of losing four matches and may be trying to qualify for the playoffs later to snatch any breathing room by defeating Kolkata Knight Riders. IPL 2025,
KKR selected to bat first and helped Ajinkya Rahane and Sunil Narin on the way during the field sanctions. Noor Ahmed (4 for 31) hit KKR reeling twice in his first over. Ravindra Jadeja got better than Rahane (48 out of 33), but Andre Russell (38 out of 21) was ready for work. Even with all the start, KKR could manage only 179 – overall their skipper went down equally.
On the other hand CSK ran into trouble directly. Both his openers were out for ducks, but IPL debutant Uril Patel (11 runs 11 runs) did not stop him. Patel broke a wonderful four sixes in his brief stay. For R Ashwin, not a step for No. 4, Varun Chakraborty (2 for 18) shortened Jadeja's stay. Half the CSK side was back into the hut in the powerplay.
Chakravarti and Narin continued to increase pressure with the Developed Brevis (52 runs 25) and Shivam Dubey (40 runs 40) with motorings. Had to give something, and Brevis found. KKR required 87 runs in the last ten overs, Brevis took Vaibhav Arora for 30 runs in the 11th over to make the equation easier for CSK.
However, KKR did not go down without a fight as Chakravarti sneezed Brevis and the bowlers placed a tight lease on a struggling Dube and MS Dhoni. Dub was eventually capable of finding the fence at the right time to keep CSK inch closer to victory, while Dhoni and Anshul Kamboj saw him in the last over.
Here are the most important numbers from the game
3 – The Eden Garden in Kolkata is now the third stadium hosting 100 IPL matches. The other two are Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai (124) and M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru (100).
9 – Ajinkya Rahane became the ninth player and seventh Indian to dissolve the 5000-Run mark in the IPL.
1 – With 141, Ravindra Jadeja is now taking the most wickets of CSK in IPL going ahead of Dwayne Bravo.
1 – MS Dhoni is now the first wicketkeeper to influence 200 dismissal with gloves in the IPL. Now retired Dinesh Karthik is one distant with 174, and another retiring is another in the third distance – Vrodhiman Saha with 113. Rishabh pants with 100 rounds with 100 rounds with a list of wicketkeepers with 100 dismissal.
12 – The game was a twelfth example of both the openers of the same team, who was making ducks in the IPL match. With CSK, this happened only once before. Both Stephen Fleming and Parthiv Patel departed in 2008 without connecting the score against RR in Jaipur.
2 – Vaibhav Arora became the second KKR bowler to score 30 or more runs in the over in IPL. Moeen Ali became the first in KKR's previous stability.
1 – Varun Chakraborty completed a 100 -wicket milestone in the IPL. From the number of matches taken, Chakravarti is the fastest spinner combined for milestones. Chakraborty reached there in 83 matches, the same number was taken by Amit Mishra and Rashid Khan. Yuzvendra Chahal and Sunil Narin are in tow with 86 matches respectively with 86 matches.
2 – Chakraborty is also the fastest Indian player for the 100 IPL wickets by matches. The top position is shared by Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Harshal Patel, who took 81 matches in each, while Chakraborty has 83 matches of Mishra and Ashish Nehra. Chahal and Sandeep Sharma (87) are in the next line.
1 – MS Dhoni became the first player to not enter 100 in the IPL. Ravindra Jadeja is one distant with 80.
2018 – The last time CSK successfully followed the target of 180 or more in the IPL. They all lost 12 such matches before winning the game.
2 – KKR eventually gave a chance to complete the season on CSK, IE defeated them in both league stage matches in the same season. RCB registered its first season double on CSK in its previous match, now leaving KKR and SRH as the only existing franchise without a season on CSK.
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