Kolkata Knight Riders beat CSK By 8 Wickets In IPL 2025
KKR Defeat CSK By 8 wickets In IPL 2025 Match 25: Mahendra Singh Dhoni was back in Chennai Super Kings’ captaincy after Poojaraj Gaikwad’s injury. However, five-time champions Chennai Super Kings were limited to a season-low score of 103 as defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders earned a comprehensive eight-wicket victory.
Chennai has shown a very poor performance against Kolkata Knight Riders at their home ground. Sunil Narine’s all-round performance has defeated Chennai by 8 wickets. Chennai scored only 103 runs for the loss of 9 wickets in 20 overs. Kolkata has made a significant improvement in its run rate by scoring 107 runs for the loss of 2 wickets in just 10.1 overs. Sunil top-scored with 44 runs off just 18 balls, while Quinton de Kock scored 23 runs. Skipper Ajinkya Rahane remained unbeaten on 20, and Rink Singh remained unbeaten on 15. With their third win from five matches, Kolkata have moved up to third place in the points table.
During this game, Kolkata won the toss and opted to field first. Batting first, Devvan Kanove and Rachin Ravindra were the opening batsmen of Chennai. But Rachin was dismissed for just 4 runs. Kanove also got dismissed for 14 runs. Subsequently, the team’s batting did not improve. Then, Shubham Dubey and Vijay Shankar batted against Kolkata bowlers for some time. Dubey made 31 runs and Shankar made 29 runs. But other batsmen from the rest of the team were not good. For Kolkata, Sunil Narine took 3 wickets, and Harshit Rana and Varun Chakravarthy took 2 wickets each.
Chennai Super Kings 103/9 in 20 overs (Shivam Dubey-31, Vijay Shankar-29, Sunil Narine-3/13, Harshit Rana-2/16, Varun Chakravarthy-2/22, Moeen Ali-1/20, Vaibhav Arora-1/31). Kolkata Knight Riders 107/2 in 10.1 overs (Sunil Narine-44, Quinton de Kock-23, Ajinkya Rahane-20, Rinku Singh-15*, Noor Ahmed-1/8, Dansul Kamboj-1/19).
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