IPL 2025, CSK vs PBKS Highlights: PBKS survive late hiccup, CSK knocked out in race for playoffs

CSK vs PBKS IPL Live Updates 2025, Chennai Super Kings vs Punjab Kings: CSK have turned to younger talent considering how their seniors have failed to fire this season. Batting coach Mike Hussey has admitted that the franchise needs to improve in this department. "I think one area that we've really identified that we want to improve on is the talent identification side of things. So, we have had different players come in and train with us at various stages, almost on trial a little bit, but also when their names come up for an auction, then at least we've seen them, we've had eyes on them," he said.

CSK vs PBKS IPL Live Updates 2025, Chennai Super Kings vs Punjab Kings: This will be the fifth match with Dhoni in charge this season and well, the legendary wicketkeeper-batter couldn't turn it around for them. CSK have lost three of the four matches they have played under him thus far.

CSK vs PBKS IPL Live Updates 2025, Chennai Super Kings vs Punjab Kings: ...are quite deceptive in the case of today's fixture. CSK are leading it 16-15 but PBKS have beaten them in six of the last seven matches, which includes wins at Chepauk in 2023 and 2024. Moreover, CSK's higher number is largely owing to the machine-like efficiency with which they dominating the IPL prior to 2023.

CSK vs PBKS IPL Live Updates 2025, Chennai Super Kings vs Punjab Kings: A recent spate of low scores has resulted in Shreyas Iyer falling out of the top 10 of the Orange Cap table. However, the fact remains that only once in five innings has he been dismissed for a score under 50 away from home.

CSK vs PBKS IPL Live Updates 2025, Chennai Super Kings vs Punjab Kings: CSK's poor run ahs come despite Khaleel Ahmed arguably bowling better than anyone this season in the powerplay. Khaleel has taken eight wickets in nine innings in the powerplay at an economy rate of 8.70. Nobody has more wickets than Khaleel during this phase in this IPL. It also means that PBKS's top order, which has been responsible for the team's best shows this season, better beware.

CSK vs PBKS IPL Live Updates 2025, Chennai Super Kings vs Punjab Kings: A key characteristic of CSK's poor run this season has been a chronic inability to capitalise with the bat in the powerplay. CSK have hit just five sixes in the powerplay this season, with their new recruit Mhatre claiming two of those. In comparison, PBKS have 27 sixes during this phase.

CSK vs PBKS IPL Live Updates 2025, Chennai Super Kings vs Punjab Kings: So this is it. Lose today and there will be no Yellove in the playoffs. And why is that? Well, CSK are sitting at the bottom of the table with just four points in nine games. After today, they will have four games left to play in the league stage, which means they can only get to a maximum of 12 points. Fourth-placed DC are on 12 points already and so the threshold for qualification to the playoffs will be more than that. In fact, even if CSK do win today, and then every game they have left in the season, their chances of making it to the top four are quite slim to say the least.

CSK vs PBKS IPL Live Updates 2025, Chennai Super Kings vs Punjab Kings: Priyansh Arya, Prabhsimran Singh, Shreyas Iyer(c), Josh Inglis(w), Nehal Wadhera, Shashank Singh, Glenn Maxwell, Azmatullah Omarzai, Marco Jansen, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal, Harpreet Brar, Musheer Khan, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Suryansh Shedge, Praveen Dubey, Marcus Stoinis, Xavier Bartlett, Vishnu Vinod, Yash Thakur, Aaron Hardie, Kuldeep Sen, Harnoor Singh, Pyla Avinash

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

CSK vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Chennai Super Kings vs Punjab Kings: Rajasthan Royals avoided becoming the first team to be knocked out of the playoff race this season thanks to an innings from teenager Vaibhav Suryavanshi which will be remembered in cricketing folklore for years and years to come. Whether CSK will also need something as miraculous as that to survive today is the big question.