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

CSK vs KKR, IPL 2025 Live Score: Rinku ends the torture for CSK with a six off the first legitimate delivery of that over, with Jadeja having overstepped before that by a rather big margin. CSK have lost five matches in a row for the first time in the IPL. They lose three home matches in a row for the first time in the IPL.

CSK vs KKR, IPL 2025 Live Score: Rinku slogs the fourth ball of the 10th over from Noor over midwicket to the boundary for a four and then takes a single off the last to bring KKR within one hit.

KKR 98/2 in 10 overs

CSK vs KKR, IPL 2025 Live Score: Ashwin returns for the seventh over, Ajinkya Rahane takes a single first ball. Narine incredibly shoulders arms second ball Test match style. Then he blasts the third ball over deep backward square for six. The fourth is sent soaring over long off for another six. Single off the fifth ball.

Narine is on 44 off 17, Rahane on 15 off 10. CSK on life support.

KKR 85/1 in 7 overs

CSK vs KKR, IPL 2025 Live Score: CSK have something to celebrate! De Kock trying to smash this first ball of the fifth to Marina Beach, he misses it entirely and the ball hits the top of off cleanly. CSK need about 4-5 wickets like this in the next two overs to get anywhere in this match.

de Kock b Kamboj 23 (16)

KKR 46/1 in 4.1 overs

CSK vs KKR, IPL 2025 Live Score: It looks like KKR are going to enjoy some sweet NRR juices at the end of this match and the opposite is going to be the case for the floundering CSK.Khaleel continues in the third over, the fourth ball is a hit-me length delivery down leg side, De Kock sends it over deep backward square leg for a six. De Kock top edges a pull shot last ball and even that goes over deep fine leg for six.

KKR 34/0 in 3 overs

CSK vs KKR, IPL 2025 Live Score: De Kock gets off strike off the fifth ball and Narine just clubs the last ball of that first over by Khaleel Ahmed over deep midwicket for a six.

CSK vs KKR, IPL 2025 Live Score: All right, Quinton de Kock and Sunil Narine are out there. This can only go one of two ways. Either it will all be over very quickly, or CSK will make an absolute low-scoring masterpiece out of this.

CSK vs KKR, IPL 2025 Live Score: There it is, new record for lowest ever score by CSK at home in an IPL match. Shivam Dube finishes with an unbeaten 31 in 29 balls, Vijay Shankar scored 29 before him and the rest of the CSK players put together scored just over 35 runs.

CSK vs KKR, IPL 2025 Live Score: Surely, surely CSK fans who have been around right from the first season would struggle to think of the last time their side were so abysmally below par in a home match. Or any match, really. CSK's lowest ever score at home is 109 which came against MI in the 2019 season. Safe to say that this record is set to be rewritten. They have just about avoided being all out for their lowest ever score overall, that was 79 against MI at the Wankhede Stadium in 2013.

The mind goes back to 2015 when CSK were restricted to 134/6 by KKR at the Chepauk and still went on to win the match. Doesn't look like anything of that sort could happen today.

CSK vs KKR, IPL 2025 Live Score: Well Varun Chakravarthy is notorious for fielding blunders but here, he as pulled off a bit of a blinder. Short from Arora, Noor pulls, top edge. He runs to his left from short fine leg and dives to complete the catch.

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