Chennai Super King’s lost its battle at home against Arch rival Royal Challenger Bengaluru by 50 runs in its second match of the IPL Season 2025.
Chennai Super King’s lost its Battle
CSK winning the toss put RCB to set target and RCB didn’t budge. Opener put45 runs when Phil Salt fell to master behind the wicket MS Dhoni , a smart stumping off Noor’s balling. Rajat Patidar played a captain’s knock of 51 in 32 balls. Every batter chipped in and it was David who made the difference by getting 22 of 8 balls. RCB set a challenging target of 196 at Chennai. Noor Ahmed did pick up 3 wickets to lead in the race of purple cap.
CSK had bad started and other than opener Rachin wickets keep falling at other end . Lost 4 wicket in 9 over with just 52 runs. CSK were never in the chase of total and by the time Dhoni joined it was just to reduce the margin of defeat. MSD did entertained spectator with his 16 ball 30 runs to take the score to 146 .Rachin with 41 in 31 runs was only hope till he failed in 13 th over when score was 75. Hazelwood was destroyer who picked up 2 wickets in his first over and finally getting 3 wickets.
| Match No 8 | ||||
| MA Chidambaram , Chennai | 28 Mar 2025 | Toss-CSK | ||
| RCB | CSK | RCB won by 50 runs | ||
| 196/7 (20) | 146/8(20) | |||
| R Patidar- 51(32) P Salt- 32(16) V Kohli – 31(30) | Noor A– 3/36 (4) M Pathirana -2/36 (4) Ashwin R -1/22(2) | R Rachin -41(31) MS Dhoni – 30*(16) R Jadeja-n25(19) | Hazelwood- 3/21(4) Y Dayal-2/18(3) Livingstone-2/28(4) | POTM-Rajat Patidar |
Rajat Patidar was declared Player of the match for his brilliant 51 of 32 balls. On Chennai pitch he was brilliant and that set the target which needed 9.8 runs per over at spinning pitch.
| INDIAN PREMIER LEAGUE | ||||||||
| Rank | Team | Played | Won | Loss | NR | Points | NRR | Remarks |
| 1 | RCB | 2 | 2 | 0 | – | 4 | +2.266 | |
| 2 | LSG | 2 | 1 | 1 | – | 2 | +0.963 | |
| 3 | PB | 1 | 1 | 0 | – | 2 | +0.550 | |
| 4 | DC | 1 | 1 | 0 | – | 2 | +0.371 | |
| 5 | SRH | 2 | 1 | 1 | – | 2 | -0.128 | |
| 6 | KKR | 2 | 1 | 1 | – | 2 | -0.308 | |
| 7 | CSK | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1.013 | ||
| 8 | MI | 1 | 0 | 1 | – | 0 | -0.493 | |
| 9 | GT | 1 | 0 | 1 | – | 0 | -0.550 | |
| 10 | RR | 2 | 0 | 2 | – | 0 | -1.882 | |
