Chennai Tremendous Kings broke a four-match shedding streak and beat Kolkata Knight Riders to remove any respiration room the latter may need in making an attempt to qualify for the playoffs in IPL 2025.
KKR elected to bat first and have been helped alongside the best way by Ajinkya Rahane and Sunil Narine throughout the discipline restrictions. Noor Ahmad (4 for 31) struck twice in his first over to go away KKR reeling. Ravindra Jadeja acquired the higher of Rahane (48 off 33), however Andre Russell (38 off 21) was as much as the duty. Even with all of the begins, KKR might solely handle 179 – a complete their skipper went on to time period beneath par.
CSK however bumped into bother straightaway. Each of their openers have been out for geese, however IPL debutant Urvil Patel (31 off 11) didn’t let it deter him. Patel smashed a tremendous 4 sixes in his temporary keep. A transfer for R Ashwin to No. 4 did not work and Varun Chakravarthy (2 for 18) lower Jadeja’s keep quick. Half the CSK aspect was again within the hut within the powerplay.
Chakravarthy and Narine continued to exert stress throughout the center overs, with Dewald Brevis (52 off 25) and Shivam Dube (45 off 40) motoring alongside. One thing needed to give, and Brevis discovered it. With KKR needing 87 runs off the final ten overs, Brevis took Vaibhav Arora aside for 30 runs within the eleventh over to make the equation straightforward for CSK.
KKR although, did not go down with out a struggle as Chakravarthy snared Brevis and the bowlers saved a good leash on a struggling Dube and MS Dhoni. Dube was ultimately capable of finding the fences on the proper time to maintain CSK inching nearer to victory, whereas Dhoni and Anshul Kamboj noticed them by way of within the final over.
Listed below are an important numbers from the sport
3 – The Eden Gardens in Kolkata is now the third stadium to host 100 IPL matches. The opposite two are the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai (124) and the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru (100).
9 – Ajinkya Rahane turned the ninth participant total, and the seventh Indian, to breach the 5000-run mark within the IPL.
1 – With 141, Ravindra Jadeja is now CSK’s highest wicket-taker within the IPL going previous Dwayne Bravo’s 140.
1 – MS Dhoni is now the primary wicketkeeper to impact 200 dismissals with the gloves within the IPL. The now-retired Dinesh Karthik is a distant second with 174, and at an much more distant third is one other retiree – Wriddhiman Saha with 113. Rishabh Pant with 100 rounds up the record of wicketkeepers with 100 dismissals within the IPL.
12 – This recreation was the twelfth occasion of each openers of the identical workforce making geese in an IPL match. With CSK, it had occurred solely as soon as earlier than. Each Stephen Fleming and Parthiv Patel had departed with out including to the rating towards RR at Jaipur in 2008.
2 – Vaibhav Arora turned solely the second KKR bowler to concede 30 or extra runs in an over within the IPL. Moeen Ali had turn into the primary in KKR’s earlier fixture.
1 – Varun Chakravarthy accomplished the milestone of 100 wickets within the IPL. By the variety of matches taken, Chakravarthy is the joint-fastest spinner to the milestone. Chakravarthy acquired there in 83 matches, the identical quantity taken by Amit Mishra and Rashid Khan. Yuzvendra Chahal with 84 and Sunil Narine with 86 matches respectively are in tow.
2 – Chakravarthy can be the joint-second quickest Indian participant to 100 IPL wickets by matches. The highest spot is shared by Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Harshal Patel who took 81 matches every whereas Chakravarthy’s variety of 83 is matches by Mishra and Ashish Nehra. Chahal and Sandeep Sharma (87) are subsequent in line.
1 – MS Dhoni turned the primary participant to register 100 not outs within the IPL. Ravindra Jadeja with 80 is a distant second.
2018 – The final time CSK efficiently chased a goal of 180 or extra within the IPL. They misplaced all 12 such matches ever since earlier than registering a win on this recreation.
2 – KKR finally squandered a possibility to finish the season double over CSK, i.e., beat them in each league stage matches in a single season. RCB registered their first season double over CSK of their final match, this now leaves KKR and SRH as the one present franchises with out a season double over CSK.