Delhi Capitals Unbeaten in thier all three outings. Delhi Capital and Rajasthan Royals came over thier opponent with ease in IPL Season 18 in thier respective matches.
Delhi Capitals Unbeaten streak Contnue
Delhi Capitals’ unbeaten streak continues their winning streak to register their 3rd consecutive win by defeating CSK at MA Chidambaram. CSK looks like an ordinary team with no planning and forethought.
Delhi Capitals won the toss and decided to bat. Fraser went on duck and their after Rahul and Porel build the innings. Both added 54 runs and Porel was send back to pavilion by Jadeja. Young Captain Akshar joined Rahul and 21 of 14 balls. S Rizvi 20 and quick 24 from Stubbs in just 12 balls took the score to 183. Rahul mscored a brilliant inning of 77 runs.
CSK started the chase and continued the earlier performance of losing a wicket in the Powerplay. Rachin, Conway, and Captain Gaikwad were having tea after 6 Over. Dube went back in the 10th over when the score was just 65 runs. Jadeja survived 3 balls and MSD came to the crease when CSK had 74 on board and needed 110 runs in 9 Overs. Not easy on the Chennai track. Vijay Shankar played a knock of 69 not out, but no fire from the other end.
Dhoni did score 30 runs in 26 balls, but it was far from a Dhoni innings. He is required to introspect as T20 is at a different level. Thala has to decide; no one can replace him, but he has to clear the way for fresh legs.
CSK eventually lost and DC won the match by 25 runs. KL Rahul was declared Player of the Match for his 77 not out of 51 balls.
| Match No 17 | ||||
| MA Chidambaram | 05 Apr 2025 | Toss-DC | ||
| DC | CSK | DC won by 25 runs | ||
| 183/6(20) | 158/5(20) | |||
| KL Rahul-77(51) Abhishek Porel-33(20) T Stubbs-24*(12) | K Ahmed-2/25(4) R Jadeja-1/19(2) M Pathirana-1/31(4) | V Shankar-69*(54) MS Dhoni-30*(26) S Dube-18(15) | Vipraj N-2/27(4) M Starc-1/27(4) Kuldeep-1/30(4) | POTM- K L Rahul |
In the second match of the day Rajasthan Royals played against the Punjab Kings at Chandigarh. Punjab Kings won the toss and put RR to bat.
Samson and Jaisawal had a good start and added 89 runs in 10 overs when Samson was picked up by Ferguson. Riyan Parag joined and took the score to 123 to loose Young Yashaswi in 14th over . Down the line all the player contributed with good dtrike rate to take the total to 205.
Punjab Kings had a poor start and kept losing wickets till Wadhera joined by Maxwell, and both added 88 runs to take the score to 131 when Maxwell got out by scoring 30 off 21 balls. Soon to be joined by Wadhera, who had 62 off 41 balls. The rest had no resistance from anyone and finally could manage only 155 by the end of 20 overs to lose by a massive margin of 50 runs. RR won the match by 50 runs and Jofra Archer was declared Player of the Match for his 3 wickets hall by giving just 25 runs in 4 overs
| Match No 18 | ||||
| Maharaja Yadavindra Singh ICS,Chandigarh | 05 Apr 2025 | Toss- PBKS | ||
| RR | PBKS | RR won by 50 Runs | ||
| 205/4(20) | 155/9(20) | |||
| Y Jaisawal-67 (47) R Parag- 43*(25) Samson- 38(26) | L Ferguson-2/37 (4) Arshdeep S-1/35(4) M Jansen-1/45(4) | N Wadhera-62(41) Maxwell-30(21) Prabhsimran S-17(16) | J Archer-3/25(4) Sandeep S-2/21(4) Theekshana-2/26(4) | POTM- Jofra Archer-3/25 (4) |
Delhi Capitals becomes Table Topper and CSK at 9th with just one win. Rajasthan Royals with win in 7th Place. whereas Punjab lost but with 2 wins in 4th place
| INDIAN PREMIER LEAGUE-2025 | ||||||||
| Rank | Team | Played | Won | Loss | NR | Points | NRR | Remarks |
| 1 | DC | 3 | 3 | 0 | – | 6 | +1.257 | |
| 2 | RCB | 3 | 2 | 1 | – | 4 | +1.149 | |
| 3 | GT | 3 | 2 | 1 | – | 4 | +0.807 | |
| 4 | PBKS | 3 | 2 | 1 | – | 4 | +0.074 | |
| 5 | KKR | 4 | 2 | 2 | – | 4 | +0.070 | |
| 6 | LSG | 4 | 2 | 2 | – | 4 | -0.048 | |
| 7 | RR | 4 | 2 | 2 | – | 4 | -0.185 | |
| 8 | MI | 4 | 1 | 3 | – | 2 | +0.108 | |
| 9 | CSK | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | -0.891 | ||
| 10 | SRH | 4 | 1 | 3 | – | 2 | -1.612 | |
| ORANGE CAP- IPL 2025 | ||||||
| Rank | Player | Team | Runs | SR | HS | Remarks |
| 1 | Nicholas Pooran | LSG | 201 | 218 | 75 | |
| 2 | Sai Sudarsan | GT | 186 | 157 | 74 | |
| 3 | Michael Marsh | LSG | 184 | 185 | 72 | |
| 4 | Surya Kumar Yadav | MI | 171 | 161 | 67 | |
| 5 | Jos Buttler | GT | 166 | 172 | 73* | |
| PURPLE CAP-IPL 2025 | |||||
| Rank | Player | Team | Best | Wicket | Remarks |
| 1 | Noor Ahmed | CSK | 4/18 | 10 | |
| 2 | Mitchell Starc | DC | 5/35 | 9 | |
| 3 | Hardik Pandya | MI | 5/36 | 8 | |
| 4 | Khaleel Ahmed | CSK | 3/29 | 8 | |
| 5 | Shardul Thakur | LSG | 4/34 | 7 | |