CSK vs MI, IPL 2025 Highlights: Ravindra powers CSK to 4-wicket win in see-saw chase

Chennai Super Kings vs Mumbai Indians Live Score: As stated earlier, Hardik Pandya cannot play this match because of a ban that is effectively the fossil of a dead rule. Pandya and Rishabh Pant, captaining Mumbai Indians and Delhi Capitals respectively, were handed one-match ban for the team's third over-rate offence. While Pant served it last season, Pandya is doing so in this match today. However, no other captain will go through this from this season on as the new playing conditions allows for demerit points to be handed to teams for over rate offences.

Chennai Super Kings vs Mumbai Indians Live Score: Suryakumar Yadav was asked in the pre-match press conference about he is planning to "control" this "uncapped" player named MS Dhoni. This is what he said: "Has anyone been able to control him so many years? It's always an excitement when you come to Chennai. When you watch him come out of the dressing room. We have learnt so many things from him. We still learn. Whenever we get an opportunity, we have a chat with him. So, I am really excited to see him again tomorrow. But from the other side, I will be leading against him. So, it's a good challenge."

Chennai Super Kings vs Mumbai Indians Live Score: Ravichandran Ashwin is back with the franchise where he first made his name. His performances for CSK is among the factors that catapulted him to the Indian team and, ultimately, Test cricket, where he established himself among the all-time greats. Now, he is back with CSK having retired from Tests and the cyclical aspect of this journey is not lost on Ashwin.

"They say life is a circle. I played for them from 2008 to 2015. I am always indebted to them. Whatever I learnt at CSK then has propelled me this far in international cricket. It's been 10 years since I played for CSK."

"The price, CSK buying me and all that is there. But, I feel nostalgic because, CSK fought for me during the bidding war like how they did in 2011. It was a trip down memory lane. It's a very special feeling."

Chennai Super Kings vs Mumbai Indians Live Score: And Ishan Kishan finishes unbeaten on 106 off 47. Will he show this season that MI made a mistake letting him go? SRH finish one run behind their own record IPL score of 287, they now have the three highest scores of all time in this league, two of which came last season and one this year. Utterly bonkers cricket here and RR will have to equal that record to win this match.

Chennai Super Kings vs Mumbai Indians Live Score: Devon Conway formed a great opening partnership with Ruturaj Gaikwad during their title-winning season in 2023. But one can't possibly leave Rachin Ravindra out considering the kind of red-hot form he is in at the moment.

Chennai Super Kings vs Mumbai Indians Live Score: Ishan Kishan, the quintissential MI opener for many years until last season, seems fitted right into the high-octane SRH batting lineup. He has blasted 80 in 38 balls at the end of the 16th over, having come in at No.3 in the fourth over to replace Abhishek Sharma, who had smashed 24 in just 11 balls of course. SRH have scored a cool 219 runs for the loss of three wickets going into the last four overs and with Ishan Kishan in the middle is none other than Heinrich Klaasen. Watch out for those scoring records.

Chennai Super Kings vs Mumbai Indians Live Score: MI lead the head to head between these two sides 20-17 but that stat is slightly misleading. CSK have won five of the last six of these fixtures and have in fact beaten MI in the last three matches on the trot.

Chennai Super Kings vs Mumbai Indians Live Score: It is going to be a warm and humid evening in Chennai, which is pretty much what you get in the city to varying degrees all year long. Two important things, the first being that there is absolutely no talk of rain at all and so that is not even a factor. What will be a factor, though is dew, although that has been negated somewhat by the new rule that allows the team bowling second to change the ball, with the umpire's blessing of course, if it is deemed too wet after the first 10 overs.

Chennai Super Kings vs Mumbai Indians Live Score: The important thing to know is that Jasprit Bumrah will be able to join the MI squad by early April. He is recuperating from the stress-related injury in his lower back, which he suffered back in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy during the second day of the fifth Test on January 4.

Chennai Super Kings vs Mumbai Indians Live Score: Mumbai Indians, and India, will be hoping that Suryakumar Yadav finds some form in the rough and tumble of the IPL that has eluded him since the 2024 T20 World Cup. He averages 14.30 and has struck at only 120.77 in 13 T20s since the South Africa tour last year

Chennai Super Kings vs Mumbai Indians Live Score: MS Dhoni has a strike-rate of 203.85 since the introduction of the Impact Player rule. He walked out to bat after the 15th over in 23 of the last 24 innings. Dhoni knows that he doesn't have the reactions he used to half a decade back but he has still managed to keep himself actually useful to the team's cause and not just a mascot to draw the crowds.

Chennai Super Kings vs Mumbai Indians Live Score: First things first, the Mumbai Indians don't have their captain Hardik Pandya available today because of a fossil of a ban, in the way that it is a remnant of a rule that no longer exists this season. More on that later. Meanwhile, Jasprit Bumrah remains unavailable at least for the first half of the season for MI

Chennai Super Kings vs Mumbai Indians Live Score: Rohit Sharma, Will Jacks, Suryakumar Yadav(c), Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya, Naman Dhir, Ryan Rickelton, Robin Minz(w), Mitchell Santner, Jasprit Bumrah, Reece Topley, Trent Boult, Deepak Chahar, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Krishnan Shrijith, Karn Sharma, Corbin Bosch, Raj Bawa, Arjun Tendulkar, Bevon Jacobs, Ashwani Kumar, Satyanarayana Raju, Vignesh Puthur

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

Chennai Super Kings vs Mumbai Indians Live Score: The two most succesfull teams in the history of the IPL, a fixture that has decided playoff spots, playoff results and the title itself, MI and CSK have been locked in a storied rivalry since the earliest days of the IPL. It is only fitting that they start its 18th season, the year it turns into an "adult" from a human perspective, with a match against each other. Stay tuned for updates!