CSK vs KKR, IPL 2025 Highlights: Dhoni’s captaincy return ends in 8-wicket thrashing for CSK

CSK vs KKR, IPL 2025 Live Score: Well Dhoni was just tapping it around, Rahane makes sure he falls despite that. Rahane put almost a Test match field for Dhoni as soon as he walked in with fielders close in. Dhoni bat padded the fourth ball of that over over short leg for a single. Dube takes a single second ball of the 16th over and Dhoni leans forward to defend the third ball. Big appeal for LBW which is given. Dhoni points to the bat and reviews. Quite extraordinarily though, it is quite touch and go on the replays and the third umpire in fact decides that the spike was not because of ball touching bat! Three reds after that, Dhoni just walks off with no expression on his face.

Dhoni lbw b Narine 1 (4)

CSK 75/8 in 15.3 overs

CSK vs KKR, IPL 2025 Live Score: Hooda tamely chips the second ball of the 15th by Varun Chakravarthy to short midwicket and falls for a four-ball duck.

CSK vs KKR, IPL 2025 Live Score: De Kock appeals for caught behind, umpire raises the finger and Sunil Narine gets his second. Ravindra Jadeja falls for a duck. Whistles go up around the Chepauk with the anticipation of Dhoni walking in but it is Impact player Deepak Hooda who comes next, having been subbed in for Rahul Tripathi.

Jadeja c de Kock b Narine 0 (2)

CSK 71/6 in 14 overs

CSK vs KKR, IPL 2025 Live Score: Wicket No.2 for Harshit Rana, the fifth ball of the 13th over is back of a length on the stumps. Ashwin pulls it down the ground and gives the long-on fielder catching practice.

Ashwin c Arora b Harshit Rana 1 (7)

CSK 70/5 in 12.5 overs

CSK vs KKR, IPL 2025 Live Score: Look away CSK fans, this is not a pretty sight. Rahul Tripathi looks completely mystified as he stands with his legs stretched looking at where the ball pitched for a couple of seconds, the bails dislodged off the stumps behind him. This was tossed up on a length outside off, turns in sharply after landing and Tripathi knew as much about it as we know about an asteroid about to hit the earth in the next half an hour and cause a mass extinction.

Tripathi b Narine 16 (22)

CSK 65/4 in 11 overs

CSK vs KKR, IPL 2025 Live Score: At long last, someone takes a catch off Vijay Shankar. Varun Chakravarthy introduced in the 10th over, the first after the first timeout. Shankar takes a big ugly swipe across the line fourth ball which is a quick legbreak on middle and leg. It goes straight down the throat of the fielder at deep backward square leg.

Shankar c Ali b Varun 29 (21)

CSK 59/3 in 9.4 overs

CSK vs KKR, IPL 2025 Live Score: KKR are on top but they would be well advised not take that for granted. After that stinker from Narine, Venkatesh Iyer drops a straightforward chance off the second ball of the eighth over. Cricket, eh? Rana returns for the eighth over, the first one is quick and short outside off, Vijay sways away. Rana follows that up with a slow offcutter on middle, absolutely brilliant variation that does Vijay in completely. He is early on his flick, the ball pops to Venkatesh at midwicket who sprints forward and the ball somehow, astonishingly, pops out of his hands. He looks around, almost trying to find a way to explain what happened but there are no excuses for that. The batters run two there, then a single. Tripathi then sends the fifth to the deep third fence for four.

Tripathi on 11 off 14 at the end of that over, Shankar on 23 off 14.

CSK going at 6.25 but then they have some stability, which is extremely important in the 2010s style T20 cricket that they are playing.

CSK 50/2 in 8 overs

CSK vs KKR, IPL 2025 Live Score: Vijay Shankar provides a semblance of accelaration in the last over the powerplay and yet, CSK haven’t even scored half of the runs that teams are usually scoring this season in powerplays.

CSK vs KKR, IPL 2025 Live Score: Not everyday you get to see something as horrendous as that at this level of cricket.

CSK vs KKR, IPL 2025 Live Score: Harshit Rana gets Rachin Ravindra with his very first ball of the match! What is going on here? Rana sends in a length ball first up, Ravindra tries to work it leg side but gets a leading edge on. The ball balloons to captain Rahane at extra cover for an easy catch.

Ravindra c Rahane b Harshit Rana 4 (9)

CSK 16/2 in 4.1 overs

CSK vs KKR, IPL 2025 Live Score: Moeen almost struck with the first ball of his first over. He now strikes with the first ball of his second over. KKR appealed for LBW and the umpire raises his finger. Conway reviews it. No bat involved, pitching in line, impact in line and hitting the leg stump.

Conway lbw b Ali 12 (11)

CSK 16/1 in 3.1 overs

CSK vs KKR, IPL 2025 Live Score: Well, this has not gone well at all for CSK thus far. Moeen almost gets a wicket off his very first ball. It was tossed up around off, Conway pushes at it and the ball lobs back towards the bowler off the inside edge. Just out of reach for Moeen though and Conway ran a single. A dot ball after that and then three more singles is all that comes in that over.

CSK 10/0 after two overs.

CSK vs KKR, IPL 2025 Live Score: Conway brings out the cover drive off the fourth ball of that opening over bowled by Vaibhav Arora. Ravindra got off strike first ball and then Conway took a single off the last. He will be facing Moeen Ali now in the second over.

CSK vs KKR, IPL 2025 Live Score: All right, Devon Conway and Rachin Ravindra are walking out for CSK. The Chepauk crowd has definitely found its voice again, it seemed to have fallen silent in the last few matches.

CSK vs KKR, IPL 2025 Live Score: Quinton de Kock(w), Sunil Narine, Ajinkya Rahane(c), Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Moeen Ali, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Harshit Rana, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakaravarthy

Impact Subs: Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Manish Pandey, Rovman Powell, Luvnith Sisodia, Anukul Roy

CSK vs KKR, IPL 2025 Live Score: Rachin Ravindra, Devon Conway, Rahul Tripathi, Vijay Shankar, Shivam Dube, MS Dhoni(w/c), Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Noor Ahmad, Anshul Kamboj, Khaleel Ahmed

Impact subs: Matheesha Pathirana, Jamie Overton, Deepak Hooda, Shaik Rasheed, Kamlesh Nagarkoti

CSK vs KKR, IPL 2025 Live Score: Ajinkya Rahane says that KKR have decided to bring in the extra spinner in the form of Moeen Ali. The fact that he knows this ground thanks to his time with CSK certainly helps. “We’ll bowl first. There were a lot of positives from the last game. We as a team played really well. It is about improving each game. (On the pitch) This looks like a good wicket, won’t change much. We are batting deep, so that’s why we look to bowl first and chase things down. One change – Moeen Ali comes in for Spencer,” he said.

CSK vs KKR, IPL 2025 Live Score: He may not be too interested in talking to the media if he can help it but now that he has to, MS Dhoni seems as happy as ever to answer questions as eloquently and at length as ever. Here is a gist of what he said, while drowning out the utterly deafening roar from the Chepauk faithful in the beginning: “We were looking to bat first as well. Quite a few occasions where we tried to chase it down and what we realised is that the wicket slows down a bit, so if you don’t get a good start then the middle order comes under pressure. He has fractured something on his elbow, so he is ruled out of the tournament. He is a very authentic batter, someone who looks to time the ball well. So yeah, he will be a big miss. It is important now, every game is important. We have lost too many matches and now it is important to do the basics right – have dot balls, take our catches. A couple of games we lost by big margins, but otherwise it was about the small things – about one over going for 20 runs. Our batters are more authentic as batters, they won’t slog everything. They just need to back their instincts. It is important to start well, get boundaries early on and try to get a couple of early wickets as well. Couple of changes for us – Tripathi comes in for Ruturaj, and Anshul Kambhoj in for Mukesh.”

CSK vs KKR, IPL 2025 Live Score: MS Dhoni spins the coin, the fans at the Chepauk cheer as if he has hit a six. Rahane calls it right though and he says that KKR are batting first.

CSK vs KKR, IPL 2025 Live Score: CSK vs KKR, IPL 2025 Live Score: Among CSK’s great problems this season has been their inability to capitalise in the powerplay with the bat. Now while their run chase petered out in their last match against PBKS, the positive for them, was an opening stand of 61 runs between Rachin Ravindra and Devon Conway in the first game in which the Kiwi stars had been reunited at the top of the order.

CSK vs KKR, IPL 2025 Live Score: Clear skies and another surface that is expected to get difficult for batting as the game goes on. The chasing side in the last two games, CSK on both occasions, found the going tough when compared with the teams that batted first.

CSK vs KKR, IPL 2025 Live Score: We saw the kind of scenes one would’ve never imagined to see after an MS Dhoni innings at the Chepauk. CSK’s chase against the Delhi Capitals had seemed to have lost life after the 13th over and Dhoni and Vijay Shankar’s lumbering partnership did absolutely no favours to crowd morale. And that reflected in the stands with fans actually leaving well before the end of the game. At the end of the previous game, there was footage of fans expressing their admiration and respect for Dhoni before stating that it is now time for the great man to hang up his boots.

CSK vs KKR, IPL 2025 Live Score: Venkatesh Iyer has spoken about how much the presence of Dwayne Bravo has helped KKR prepare for this fixture”He has played over 600 professional T20 matches and I’ve said this in many places: nothing is more important than experience because T20 cricket is a game of experience. The more experience you have, the more situations you have seen. So, he has an answer for every situation because he himself has lived in that situation. Plus, he has spent a lot of time at CSK. He knows how to bat and bowl on this ground and he knows what tactics to use.”

CSK vs KKR, IPL 2025 Live Score: Venkatesh Iyer smashed 60 and 45 against Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) and Lucknow Super Giants (LSG). It might be bad news for Ravindra Jadeja if he gets going today. Venkatesh did get off to a slow start this season but there is no doubt that he now seems set to justify that hefty price tag.

CSK vs KKR, IPL 2025 Live Score: The ball has been flying to the stands this season in the IPL more often than not but that hasn’t quite been the case for CSK. They have 31 sixes in in five innings, the least among nine teams who have played at least four games this season.

CSK vs KKR, IPL 2025 Live Score: …if you are a CSK fan, that is, or just nostalgic for an old school MS Dhoni classic. Dhoni has faced 16 balls from Varun in the IPL for only 11 runs while being dismissed three times. His struggles against Narine are even starker: 39 runs off 74 balls at a strike rate of just 52.70, and one dismissal.

CSK vs KKR, IPL 2025 Live Score: Dwayne Bravo is KKR’s bowling coach but even today, there might be many who might just assume that he is playing for CSK. The West Indies great made the Chepauk his own in his many trophy-laden years with the Super Kings. Apart from him, KKR also have Moeen Ali who used to play for CSK until last year. Varun Chakravarthy may have never played for CSK but the Chepauk is his domestic home ground. Just from a bowling sense, KKR would feel quite at home today.

CSK vs KKR, IPL 2025 Live Score: CSK lead the head-to-head between these two sides 19-10. Moreover, they have won the last five of the seven games against KKR. It is interesting to note, though, that KKR have played as many as three IPL finals at the Chepauk and won two of them.

CSK vs KKR, IPL 2025 Live Score: Trust Stephen Fleming to keep it professional while making that announcement. The news of Dhoni returning as captain of CSK didn’t first come out as a source-based leak, which has been the case for most big Indian cricket news in the past half a decade. CSK head coach Fleming made the announcement in a press conference.

CSK vs KKR, IPL 2025 Live Score: Dhoni returns as skipper for the remaining games due to Gaikwad sustaining an injury. Gaikwad has suffered a fractured elbow, ruling him out for the entire season. CSK have lost four games on the trot, and will be hoping that Dhoni’s reinstatement as skipper inspires the side in revival.

CSK vs KKR, IPL 2025 Live Score: Quinton de Kock(w), Sunil Narine, Ajinkya Rahane(c), Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Harshit Rana, Vaibhav Arora, Spencer Johnson, Varun Chakaravarthy, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Manish Pandey, Anukul Roy, Rovman Powell, Luvnith Sisodia, Moeen Ali, Anrich Nortje, Mayank Markande, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Chetan Sakariya

CSK vs KKR, IPL 2025 Live Score: Rachin Ravindra, Devon Conway, Vijay Shankar, Ravindra Jadeja, Shivam Dube, MS Dhoni(w/c), Ravichandran Ashwin, Noor Ahmad, Mukesh Choudhary, Khaleel Ahmed, Matheesha Pathirana, Jamie Overton, Rahul Tripathi, Deepak Hooda, Anshul Kamboj, Shreyas Gopal, Sam Curran, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Nathan Ellis, Gurjapneet Singh, Shaik Rasheed, Ramakrishna Ghosh, Andre Siddarth C, Vansh Bedi

CSK vs KKR, IPL 2025 Live Score: Hello and welcome everyone, to our live coverage of today’s IPL 2025 match as CSK take on KKR in Chennai. MS Dhoni returns as captain again as Gaikwad has been ruled out for the remaining games due to injury. It is going to be a wave of yellow tonight folks! Stay tuned!