Chennai Super Kings and Kolkata Knight Riders have eight IPL titles between them. However, their kind in 2025 has been properly beneath the same old excessive requirements.
With time working out, each groups will desperately search a return to profitable methods once they meet on the MAC Stadium on Friday (April 11, 2025).
Indian Premier League 2025 factors desk
CSK has had a nightmarish begin to this point, mendacity ninth on the desk and is on a four-match shedding streak. Only a miraculous turnaround can salvage the season, and it has to begin now.
Can M.S. Dhoni’s return as captain be that magic bullet? But the five-time champion’s record of woes is large, encompassing all three aspects of the sport.
Ruturaj Gaikwad’s damage has additional dented a struggling batting unit. The think-tank has a job on its arms to resolve who replaces him within the beginning line-up.
Meanwhile, KKR — which has 4 factors from 5 video games — is trying to find consistency, having alternated between losses and wins.
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The three-time champion, although, has the assets to show round its fortunes. Despite the four-run loss to Lucknow Super Giants just a few days in the past, Ajinkya Rahane’s males can take confidence that they practically chased down 238 with key batters discovering kind.
Trial by spin
Spinners Varun Chakaravarthy and Sunil Narine ought to benefit from the situations at Chepauk, and their eight overs might be the important thing in opposition to a misfiring CSK batting assault.
Knight Riders have fond reminiscences of this venue and can look to reignite their title defence on the place the place they’d their crowning second a yr in the past.
Published – April 10, 2025 08:44 pm IST
