Chennai Super Kings Beat Lucknow Super Giants By 5 Wicket In IPL 30th Match
CSK Beat LSG By 5 Wickets In IPL 2025 Match 30: The 30th match of IPL 2025 at the Bharat Ratna Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekna Stadium in Lucknow witnessed Chennai Super Kings defeating Lucknow Supergiants by 5 wickets. Having set a target of 167 runs to achieve, Chennai, which had been struggling earlier, achieved it by losing 5 wickets in 3 balls. Impact player Shivam Dubey also contributed with Dhoni on Monday. Chennai has returned to its winning ways after a five-game losing streak. However, though they won for the second time in the seventh match, they failed to move from the last place. Meanwhile, Lucknow lost their third game the seventh match. Losing by 167 runs, Chennai replaced their opening pair and allowed Sheikh Rashid (27) and Rachin Ravindra (37) to open their innings. Both of them staged a good 52-run partnership for the initial wicket.
Later, Chennai were under stress after losing their wickets at regular intervals and were left on 111 runs. Then captain Dhoni took center stage. He and Shivam Dubey (43*, 37 balls, 3 fours, 2 sixes) staged a smoky batting show to pull Chennai back into contention. Requiring 56 runs in the remaining 5 overs, Shivam and Dhoni (26*, 11 balls, 4 fours, 1 six) staged a great batting performance to lift the game for winning with 3 balls remaining. Chennai also restored smiles to fans’ faces with a highly anticipated away victory on the strength of Dhoni’s magic. Dhoni and Shivam combined 57* for the unbroken sixth wicket. Chennai won the toss and invited Lucknow to bat. The team’s bowlers gave due respect to the decision of Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who recently returned to captaincy, by dismissing the opposition opener Aiden Markram (6) and the dangerous Nicholas Pooran (8) in the power play. But captain Rishabh Pant (63 balls, 49 balls, 4 fours, 4 sixes) guided Lucknow to a total of 166 runs in 7 wickets loss on the back of the first captaincy half-century (63 balls, 49 balls, 4 fours, 4 sixes).
Pant, who previously went through six losses in a row, began slowly but later lifted the run rate for his first personal fifty of the season, scored off 42 balls. Others in support included Mitchell Marsh (30 off 25 balls), Ayush Badoni (22 off 17), and Abdul Samad (20 off 11).They defended well throughout the game, securing three wickets in the last over, and never allowed Lucknow an opportunity to raise the run rate which Chennai were targeting.
Brief scores Of CSK VS LSG:
Lucknow Supergiants 166/7 in 20 overs (Rishabh Pant 63, Mitchell Marsh 30, Ayush Baroni 22, Abdul Samad 20, Ravindra Jadeja 2/24, Mathisha Pathirana 2/45). Chennai Super Kings 168/5 in 19.3 overs (Shivam Dubey 43*, Rachin Ravindra 37, Sheikh Rashid 27, MS Dhoni 26*, Ravi Bishnoi 2/18, Digvesh Rathi 1/23).
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