Kolkata Knight Riders defeated Chennai Super Kings by 8 wickets in the 25th match of IPL 2025 played on Friday. Batting first, CSK could score only 109 runs. Sunil Narine took 3 wickets. While chasing the target, Narine played a blistering innings of 44 runs in 18 balls. This is Chennai’s fifth consecutive defeat this season. This is the first time in IPL history that CSK has lost 3 consecutive matches at Chepauk. This is also CSK’s biggest defeat (based on most balls remaining) while defending.
Chasing a small target of 104 runs, Quinton de Kock and Sunil Narine scored 46 runs in 4 overs for the first wicket. De Kock was dismissed after scoring 23 runs in 16 balls. He hit 3 sixes. The second wicket fell in the form of Sunil Narine in the 8th over but before that he had done his job, he played an explosive innings of 44 runs in 18 balls. In this innings, Narine hit 5 sixes and 2 fours.
A total of 10 sixes were hit in KKR’s innings, even CSK did not hit that many fours in their innings. Only 8 fours were hit in the entire innings of Chennai Super Kings. KKR won with 59 balls to spare. With this win, KKR has moved from sixth to third position in the points table.
CSK had made the lowest score in Chepauk
Batting first, Chennai Super Kings could only score 103 runs. The team’s top batsmen completely flopped. This was CSK’s lowest IPL score in Chepauk Stadium. CSK lost 5 wickets for 70 runs including Devon Conway (12), Rachin Ravindra (4), even after this no pair of CSK could make a big partnership. MS Dhoni was dismissed after scoring 1 run in 4 balls. The team’s 9th wicket fell at 79 runs in the form of Noor Ahmed, then it seemed that the team would not be able to cross the 100 mark but Shivam Dubey played an innings of 31 runs and somehow took the team’s score to 103. Sunil Narine became the best player of the match Before playing a brilliant innings of 44 runs, Sunil Narine took 3 important wickets, he was the one who got Dhoni out LBW. Narine was chosen as the best player of the match. Apart from him, Harshit Rana and Varun Chakraborty took 2-2 wickets and 1 wicket went to Vaibhav Arora.
