Chennai Super Kings are all, but the IPL 2025 is out of the playoff race as his luck is not in his hands. Sunrisers Hyderabad live to fight another day because they remain.
243 matches, 216 matches as captain: MS Dhoni has seen Chennai Super Kings growing and developing. He took the team to five IPL titles. But now, he is watching his yellow empire falling, matching the match. It was ideal that he retired after lifting the title in 2023. However, as Dhoni has stayed, returning once again as CSK captain, he will be disappointed how CSK has done in IPL 2025. On Friday, it was another heart-breaking lesson for him, for CSK for a 5-verse for hopdristers, which is in terms of degradation.
SRH chased a target of 154 runs in 18.4 overs. Ishaan Kishan played a mature knock of 34-genders 44 on a pitch, which was difficult to bat. But it was Nitish Kumar Reddy and Kamindu Mendis who implemented Finishing Touch after SRH in 13.5 overs. Reddy-Mendis set an unbeaten 49-run stand. With 6 points out of 9 matches, SRH jumped to 8th position and kept his playoff hopes alive.
Bizarre show
Yes, the Chpeauk pitch was slow. But it was not close to being inaccessible anywhere. Ayush Mahetre showed that with the 19-gent 30, as CSK dropped Rachin Ravindra to the 4th inauguration pair in IPL 2025. But the young man, Sheikh Rashid made an empty space. At No. 3, CSK’s use for Sam Curan flated as the English all-rounder scored 9 runs. By the end of the powerplay, Matre fell to 30, not only Rabindra Jadeja Bat 4 against fifty Indians from Mumbai.
Jadeja played a knock of 53. But those who did not follow the match, Jadeja took 15 balls. For its first 20 balls, Jadeja had a strike rate of just 100. CSK may have similar schemes on Friday. But the all -rounder scored 21 in 17 delivery.
Shivam Dubey at number 6, this time, scored 9 runs 9 runs. Deepak Hooda was demolished and then brought back to CSK vs SRH match, scored 22 runs for 21 runs. While it could be a bad knock, did they not score those runs, CSK did not cross 150. MS Dhoni admitted that the CSK was not 20-30 runs and the batting approachs were outdated.
“We kept losing wickets. The wicket was a bit better in the first innings and 157 was not a justified score. It was not changing a lot, it was not a little two-book, but there was nothing outside the normal. Yes, the second innings, a little help. Our spinners were bowling in the right areas, but we were not 15-20 runs.” MS Dhoni said after the match.
Devald Bravis Phase
Not all were depressed for CSK, however. Another mid-season signing, Developed Brevis, who made a yellow color. He had eight dot balls in 25 balls knocks. But Brevis rotated the strike and when he started big shots, he was denied by hitting three sixes against Kamindu Mendis. Mendis caught the season to deny Brevis his first IPL fifty.
But it was still an entertaining knock. He hit four sixes, while in CSK, other batsmen hit two. CSK has been the worst side in the case of hitting sixes. He has hit a total of 49 sixes in IPL 2025. The next is the worst KKR, but he still hit 61.
Most sixes in IPL 2025
- Rajasthan Royals (RR): 90 sixes
- Lucknow Super Giants (LSG): 89 Six
- Punjab Kings (PBK): 78 sixes
- Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB): 76 Six
- Mumbai Indians (MI): 74 Six
- Delhi Capital (DC): 68 sixes
- Gujarat Titans (GT): 65 sixes
- Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH): 64 Six
- Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR): 61 sixes
- Chennai Super Kings (CSK): 49 Six
Although Brevis went into the 13th over, CSK’s run rate drowned from 8.84 to 5.57. Hooda scored 21 but it was the only positive for CSK at the time of death. MS Dhoni played 10 balls but scored just 6 runs as other people kept falling.
Shrey Harshal Patel should go. His art of slow delivery had no response to MS Dhoni & Co.. He took 4 wickets for 28 runs and bowled 14 dot balls, with only four and two sixes.
Incomplete chase
In any way, Sunrisers Hyderabad completely followed. In a pursuit of 155 runs, SRH posted 69/3 after 10 overs, with 86 runs still required the previous 60 delivery. A recession hit after the century on SRH debut, Ishan Kishan was a architect.
Kishan scored 44 runs in 34 balls. It was a knock of patience. He never took off things, playing out of his character. With five borders and a six, he continued to return to the CSK bowlers despite a scoring rate needle below 7.
However, Kamindu Mendis and Nitish Kumar Reddy added an unbeaten 49 -run stand for the 6th wicket. Reddy remained unbeaten on 19, while Mendis chased an unbeaten 32 to win the match for SRH in 18.4 overs.
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