Delhi Capitals beat Chennai Super Kings by 25 runs
DC Beats CSK By 25 Runs In IPL 2025 Match 17: Akshar Patel’s Delhi Capitals were the first team to go to the top of the IPL with a hat-trick win in the 17th match. Delhi Capitals beat Chennai Super Kings by 25 runs in the match played at Chepauk on Saturday afternoon. Apart from this, the most successful team, CSK, has been beaten three times now. Delhi Capitals had won the toss and chosen to bat first at the MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk. Khaleel Ahmed had taken Jack Fraser McGurk’s wicket in the very first over. After this, wicketkeeper KL Rahul scored his half-century off 33 balls and struggled until the last over. He had made 77 runs off 51 balls with 6 fours and 3 sixes. In this innings, he formed small alliances with Abhishek Porel (33 runs off 20 balls), Akshar Patel (21 runs off 14 balls), Sameer Rizvi (20 runs off 15 balls) and Tristan Stubbs (24 runs off 12 balls) as Delhi Capitals scored a tough total of 183 runs. Khaleel Ahmed (4-0-25-2) was the efficient bowler while Ravindra Jadeja, Noor Ahmed, and Mathisha Pathirana took one wicket each.
In response, Chennai Super Kings were dismissed for 46 runs in the first over after losing 3 wickets in the Power Play. In the early hours of New Zealand, Rachin Ravindra and Devon Conway opened their innings, accompanied by the captain Poojaraj Gaekwad. Shivam Dubey was able to accumulate only 18 runs from 15 balls and fell to Vipraj Nigam for the second wicket, thereby slowing down the innings. An lbw by Kuldeep Yadav ended Ravindra Jadeja’s contribution of two runs to the score and that put Chennai at 74/5 at the end of the over. At this moment, Vijay Shankar and Mahendra Singh Dhoni were solidly placed in a partnership but did not affect the Delhi Capitals bowlers on their own. Vijay Shankar had made a half-century but took 43 balls for it. Both of them did some attacking shots in the later stages, but the target for victory went too far from Chennai Super Kings. Vijay Shankar made 69* from 54 balls, and Dhoni made 30* from 26 balls.
Brief Scores: Delhi Capitals 183/6 in 20 overs (KL Rahul-77, Abhishek Porel-33, Tristan Stubbs-24, Khaleel Ahmed-2/25, Ravindra Jadeja-1/19, Mathisha Pathirana-1/31, Noor Ahmed-1/36). Chennai Super Kings 158/5 in 20 overs (Vijay Shankar-69, Mahendra Singh Dhoni-30*, Vipraj Nigam-2/27, Mitchell Starc-1/27, Kuldeep Yadav-1/30, Mukesh Kumar-1/36).
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