IPL 2025, KKR vs CSK Highlights: MS Dhoni guides CSK home in 180-run chase, KKR all but knocked out
- IPL 2025, KKR vs CSK Highlights: Anshul Kamboj had to hit the winning runs, having come on strike with the scores level and Dhoni finished unbeaten at the other end on 17 off 18, having anchored the last part of CSK's chase.
IPL 2025, KKR vs CSK Highlights: Chennai Super Kings beat Kolkata Knight Riders by two wickets in what could be a body blow to the latter's chances of making it to the playoffs. In a dramatic chase in which the pendulum swung between both sides, MS Dhoni stayed until the end and anchored the final part of the 180-run chase. ...Read More
CSK earlier lost five wickets in the powerplay but Dewald Brevis's 22-ball half-century flipped the tables on Kolkata Knight Riders. Brevis smashed 30 runs in an over to land a body blow on KKR's chances of making it to the playoff. However, KKR have clawed their way back after Brevis fell with Shivam Dube and MS Dhoni struggling to get going.
CSK's latest young debutant Urvil Patel earlier made a bright start after they lost Ayush Mhatre early chasing 180 against Kolkata Knight Riders. Devon Conway, who opened the innings Mhatre, soon fell and Urvil didn't survive too long either, leading to CSK being three wickets down in the first three overs.
Earlier, Manish Pandey played through to the end of a strange innings from Kolkata Knight Riders in which they posted a total of 179/6 in 20 overs. KKR captain Ajinkya Rahane was halted in the middle overs once again after taking off in the powerplay, as has been the case for him all season. He eventually fell to his longtime India teammate Ravindra Jadeja in the 13th over. KKR are now hoping that Andre Russell and Manish Pandey can give them some acceleration with CSK having taken control of the proceedings in the middle overs.
Earlier, Rahane and Sunil Narine made merry in the powerplay and helped the defending champions recover from an early loss of wicket. However, Chennai Super Kings have come back strong by first limiting runs after the first six overs before Noor Ahmad dismissed Narine and the in-form Angkrish Raghuvanshi in the eighth over. Rahane had to earlier walk in early once again with Anshul Kamboj sending back Rahmanullah Gurbaz in just the second over of the match. Rahane had earlier won the toss and said that KKR are batting first.
KKR need to win every match from here on out and among the noise that they might need to cancel out could be from their home fans whenever Chennai Super Kings captain MS Dhoni walks out to bat. As has been the case for the past half a decade or so, there is speculation that this could be the last time that fans at the Eden Gardens could get to see the great man play.
The 43-year-old had started this season as an uncapped wicketkeeper but he was back at the helm of everything for CSK halfway through because of an injury to regular captain Ruturaj Gaikwad. Dhoni's reinstatement as captain did not lead to a magical turnaround in fortunes for the stumbling in CSK and they eventually became the first side to be ruled out of contention for the playoffs. CSK have since been in experimental mode, clearly looking to prepare some young players who could power their recovery next season.
The situation couldn't be more different for KKR. They somehow survived an almighty scare against the Rajasthan Royals and now need to win all four of their remaining matches to stay in contention for playoffs. It means while CSK have little to nothing riding on today's match, KKR have everything to lose.
KKR head coach Chandrakant Pandit said that he is not too worried about the noise around the match. "I think during these kinds of games, every player and every team is always focused on their own game," said Pandit. "I mean, that's sometimes like, if a batter is batting and there is so much noise around and if you ask that batter, probably he will say that 'I didn't hear anything about it."
"It was the same case with me when people used to tell me so much noise around and how you can focus. But sometimes we just ignore that noise automatically. So, obviously when you are focused on the game, it does not matter so much if you ask me," he said.
KKR's batting has faltered repeatedly this season, leaving them in a precarious position with just five wins from 11 matches. Pandit however reiterated that the players are not too affected by the pressure. "Always better to tell the boys what positives you have done. It helped you to win the game and you got to carry that. The strength that you have, rather than thinking about the next three games."
"Looking at the last two games, yes of course (we are peaking). We look ahead to the other two games, very much confident that we will qualify. This is the beauty of this tournament. Ups and downs will be there in a two-month journey," he said.
Some highlights from the match:
- CSK beat KKR by 2 wickets
- Dewald Brevis races past 50 in 22 balls
- Dewald Brevis smashes 30 runs in 11th over
- CSK 62/5 in the powerplay
- KKR 179/6 in 20 overs
- KKR 67/1 in the powerplay
- KKR have had to leave out Venkatesh Iyer and bring in Manish Pandey in his palce
- KKR won the toss and chose to bat first
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- 7 May 2025, 11:15:13 PM IST
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: THAT'S IT! CSK WIN BY 2 WICKETS!
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: And that all but finishes KKR's chances of making it to the playoffs. Anshul Kamboj does it like Dhoni with Dhoni at the other end. A calm lofted shot down the ground for a four to finish off the chase.
- 7 May 2025, 11:12:23 PM IST
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: SCORES LEVEL!
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: Dhoni refuses the single second ball. Third ball is into the blockhole middle and leg by Russell, Dhoni digs it out towards extra cover and takes the run. Scores are level and Anshul Kamboj has to score the winning run.
One needed to win off the three balls.
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- 7 May 2025, 11:09:55 PM IST
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: SIX! DHONI GOES BOOM! CSK NEED 2 TO WIN OFF 5!
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: Dre Russ bowling the last over. He misses the yorker and it becomes a low full toss on the stumps. Dhoni blasts it over deep midwicket for a flat, hard, deadly six.
- 7 May 2025, 11:08:59 PM IST
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: CSK need 8 to win off the last over with Dhoni on strike
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: That last ball of the 19th was pretty much a free swing for Noor and that is exactly what he does. He holes out at long on to Rinku who hasn't got anything wrong in the field today.
CSK 172/8 in 19 overs
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- 7 May 2025, 11:04:14 PM IST
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: OUT! MAMMOTH WICKET AS DUBE FALLS!
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: And it is the dangerman Shivam Dube. An over that has taken forever to be halfway through thanks to two back to back wide calls being reviewed second and third balls. The second wide call is reversed while the third stays but the tactic is quite clear here from Arora, he is looking to stay out of Dube's hitting arc outside off. But then he goes straight third ball and Dube biffs it over wide long on. Another slot ball next ball, Dube goes big but this time, the ball goes up and touches the cloud but it comes down behind mid-off. Rinky back pedals and does well to hold on.
Dube c Rinku b Arora 45 (40)
CSK 170/7 in 18.4 overs
- 7 May 2025, 11:00:19 PM IST
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: 18 needed to win off the last 2 overs!
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: Just four runs in the 18th over by Andre Russell. MS Dhoni has scored nine runs in 14 balls. We are into the last two overs of the match now, will he decide to take a swing at a few? Dube at the other end on 39 off 37.
CSK 162/6 in 18 overs
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- 7 May 2025, 10:57:41 PM IST
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: SIX! Dube with a blow to KKR's hopes
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: Rana's fourth ball of the 17th over is in the slot, not too much pace. Dube swings through the line and deposits it over long on. Single off the next ball and then Dhoni can't get the last one away.
CSK need 22 to win from 18 now.
CSK 158/6 in 17 overs
- 7 May 2025, 10:46:20 PM IST
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: Into the last five overs
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: Dube takes a six off Rana fifth ball of the 15th over and that makes it eight off the 15th over. That was also the first boundary since Brevis fell.
Dube on 24 off 27, Dhoni on three off six.
CSK need 40 to win off 30 balls.
CSK 140/6 in 15 overs
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- 7 May 2025, 10:32:17 PM IST
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: OUT! And Brevis goes
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: He tries to go after Chakravarthy and perishes. Full length delivery on leg stump, Brevis tries to go downtown but doesn't get enough on it. It goes flat to Rinku on mid-on.
And cue the customary big cheers as MS Dhoni walks out.
Brevis c Rinku b Varun 52 (25)
CSK 127/6 in 12.1 overs
- 7 May 2025, 10:22:03 PM IST
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: 22 BALL FIFTY FOR BREVIS! DROPPED 1ST BALL OF THE 11TH AND HE BLASTS 30 RUNS IN IT!
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: DEWALD BREVIS YOU BEAUTY! Vaibhav Arora's first ball is in the slot outside off, Arora hits it over the bowler's head, Raghuvanshi is the man at long on but it bursts right through his hands and goes for six. The second ball is glanced past short fine leg for a four. Then Brevis hammers the third ball right back down the ground, bowler and umpire had to get out of the way as it rifled away to the boundary for four. Another straight hit next ball, this time all the way for six. Then he smashes the fifth ball over long on for a monster six. The last ball is sent over extra cover for a four. Wowza!
CSK need just 57 to win from 54 all of a sudden.
Brevis on 50 off 22, Dube on 12 off 12.
CSK 123/5 in 11 overs
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- 7 May 2025, 10:19:01 PM IST
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: Dube and Brevis turning it around for CSK
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: This might feel like an action replay for KKR considering they had started their defence in a similar fashion in the previous match before the batting side put together a big stand and gave them an almighty scare. Except that they are not defending more than 200 here. Brevis' six over wide long on against Narine in the ninth over helps them take nine off it and then they squeeze out five runs in the 10th.
CSK's run rate is currently 8.70, not too far behind the required rate of 9.30.
CSK 93/5 in 10 overs
- 7 May 2025, 10:03:06 PM IST
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: 12 runs in the 7th!
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: Sunil Narine bowls the first over after powerplay. Brevis runs two off the first and one off the second after which Dube eases the third ball past extra cover for four. Takes a single next ball and then Brevis hits the last past deep midwicket for a four.
Brevis on eight off five, Dube on six off five.
CSK 74/5 in 7 overs
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- 7 May 2025, 09:53:53 PM IST
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: OUT! MAKE THAT 5 GONE IN THE POWERPLAY!
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: Varun Chakravarthy takes just two deliveries to make an impcat and Jadeja is the next man in the yellow procession. Back of a length from Varun, it was going away from Jadeja, he is early on his dab off side. Inside edge onto the stumps. CSK in the doldrums.
Jadeja b Varun 19 (10)
CSK 60/5 in 5.2 overs
- 7 May 2025, 09:49:50 PM IST
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: OUT! CSK have lost four in the powerplay!
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: Ravichandran Ashwin is the latest to go. CSK have made a hash of their powerplay batting here. Rana ends the fifth over with a back of a length delivery outside off. Ashwin tries to drive on the up, ends up floating it into the hands of the fielder at backward point.
Ashwin c Raghuvanshi b Harshit Rana 8 (7)
CSK 56/4 in 5 overs
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- 7 May 2025, 09:40:28 PM IST
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: GONE! Fun's over for Urvil!
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: And for all the big hits from the CSK debutant. this is an excellent start for KKR. And it is thanks to a ridiculously good catch by Varun Chakravarthy. Fullish delivery outside off for the last ball of the over in which 12 runs came, Urvil gives it his everything with an agricultural swing offside. Takes the outside edge and Chakravarthy darts to his left at short third and takes a catch with two outstretched hands.
Urvil c Chakravarthy b Harshit Rana 31 (11)
CSK 37/3 in 3 overs
- 7 May 2025, 09:33:30 PM IST
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: OUT! Conway falls after Urvil's exhibition!
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: Moeen Ali bowls the second over and Urvil welcomes him with a six over deep midwicket! Then he slaps the second ball over mid off for four. The third smashed over deep midwicket for another six and then he gets off strike. Moeen then floats up the fifth ball for Conway, the latter looks to drive it down the ground. He plays for turn though, which was not there, straight through him and onto the stumps.
Conway b Ali 0 (2)
CSK 25/2 in 1.5 overs
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- 7 May 2025, 09:30:45 PM IST
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: Urvil Patel off the mark in the IPL career with a six!
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: What a way to say hello to the IPL! He swings and misses the first ball that he faced in this tournament and then the fourth ball of Arora's over is sent over deep square leg for a six. Arora goes wide down the leg side next ball and then Urvil takes a single.
CSK 8/1 after 1 over
- 7 May 2025, 09:25:01 PM IST
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: GONE! Arora gets Mhatre second ball!
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: The 17-year-old played a classic in his previous match but is out for a stinker in this one. Back of a length from Arora, no pace on it. Mhatre tries to go over cover and he mishits it completely. Simple catch for Rana.
Now comes another debutant wearing the CSK yellow, Urvil Patel.
Mhatre c Harshit Rana b Arora 0 (2)
CSK 0/1 in 0.2 overs
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- 7 May 2025, 09:23:39 PM IST
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: Now for the CSK chase...
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: All right, Ayush Mhatre facing up with Devon Conway at the other end, interestingly. Vaibhav Arora to bowl the first over. Harshit Rana has come in as impact sub for Manish Pandey.
- 7 May 2025, 09:10:50 PM IST
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: KKR 179/6 in 20 overs
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: KKR were slow to start, then they raced, then they slowed down again, and then they raced again, and then they finish off by taking just 16 runs off the last two overs. In the end, though, they have ensured that CSK have to chase down 180.
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- 7 May 2025, 09:00:50 PM IST
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: GONE! Noor has 4!
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: Mhatre juggles it a bit right at the fence but does the job in the end. Short from Noor third ball of the 19th, Rinku stays in his crease and sends it towards deep backward square leg. Mhatre is there but he loses control, the ball pops out of his hands, but he catches it in the end and makes sure he doesn't step on the rope. Well done.
Rinku Singh c Mhatre b Noor Ahmad 9 (6)
KKR 167/6 in 18.3 overs
- 7 May 2025, 08:50:56 PM IST
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: OUT! Russell's charge ended by Noor
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: And the Jamaican is disgusted with himself as this was a proper half-tracker, there to be hit.
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- 7 May 2025, 08:46:11 PM IST
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: More Russell power
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: Largely a good over from Pathirana, had it not been for the four and a six that Russell hit off the second and third balls. The second ball is a slower one and Russell smashes it over deep midwicket for a flat six. Then he reaches out third ball and powers it through extra cover for four.
KKR 138/4 in 16 overs
- 7 May 2025, 08:41:12 PM IST
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: 15 RUNS IN THE 15TH! DRE RUSS IS IN THE HOUSE!
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: Jadeja gives the second ball of the over some air, Russell swings with everything he has got across the line, it takes an outside edge and goes over slip for four. The third delivery is back of a length, Russell seems to have got into a tangle trying to pull but still manages to smash it past deep midwicket for another four. The third ball is blasted wayyy over long on for a monster six. Single next ball and Pandey plays a dot to backward point.
Russell on 18 off 12, Pandey on 17 off 17.
KKR 124/4 in 15 overs
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- 7 May 2025, 08:34:47 PM IST
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: Six singles in Pathirana's first over
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: Both Russell and Pandey took their swings but Pathirana clinical in that over. He bowls three consecutive yorkers third, fourth and fifth balls and then another full delivery that Russell could only miscue despite going at it with everything he had.
Russell on three off seven, Pandey on 17 off 16.
KKR 109/4 in 14 overs
- 7 May 2025, 08:27:53 PM IST
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: GONE! Jadeja gets Rahane!
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: Rahane has found the fielder at backward point to perfection. Jadeja's first ball was full on Rahane's pads and the KKR captain tapped it to the bowler's right to take what should've been a tight single. Jadeja had a shy at the stumps, missed it and KKR ran an overthrow there. The second ball to Rahane is slower on middle stump. He tries to reverse but seems to have been cramped because the ball kept coming back into him, goes for the shot anyway and Conway takes a simple catch.
Rahane c Conway b Jadeja 48 (33)
KKR 103/3 in 12.2 overs
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- 7 May 2025, 08:24:45 PM IST
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: 10 overs gone, KKR 87/3
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: Manish Pandey is the new man in and he has scored nine runs in seven balls, Rahane at the other end on 38 off 25. Noor continues to stifle the batters, he has figures of 2/11 in 2 overs. Jadeja at the other end gave seven runs away in his first over. Now he continues for the 11th over.
- 7 May 2025, 08:11:25 PM IST
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: GONE! TWO IN THE OVER FOR NOOR! Sharp catch by Dhoni!
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: How about this! The in-form Angkrish Raghuvanshi gone for just one run and CSK have taken control once again. The ball spins away slightly, Raghuvanshi goes feeling for it and it takes his outside edge. Dhoni takes a sharp catch point black, the ball was darting away from his gloves and he adjusted.
Raghuvanshi c Dhoni b Noor Ahmad 1 (2)
KKR 71/3 in 7.4 overs
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- 7 May 2025, 08:04:59 PM IST
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: OUT! Dozy from Narine and Dhoni does the rest
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: Noor Ahmad strikes with his first ball of the match. He had angled it in full on middle and leg. Narine charges down the track and gives it a big mighty heave leg side. He ends up slicing the air and the ball strikes his pads and rolls behind him gently. Narine doesn't react at all, he just stands for a second right there outside his crease, completely clueless about the whereabouts of the ball. Dhoni scrambles to collect it and whips off the bails.
Narine st Dhoni b Noor Ahmad 26 (17)
KKR 69/2 in 7.1 overs
- 7 May 2025, 08:02:15 PM IST
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: 17 runs off the 6th! KKR 67/1 in the powerplay
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: Kamboj bowls the last over of the powerplay and receives a hiding from Rahane and Narine. The first ball is on a length on off, Rahane moves across, gets low and laps it over fine leg for a six. Then he lofts the second ball over extra cover for a four. He gets off strike third ball and then Narine helps the fourth past short fine leg for another four. Two more singles to end the over.
Rahane on 29 off 14 balls, Narine on 25 off 13.
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- 7 May 2025, 07:58:39 PM IST
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: 14 runs off the 5th!
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: Ashwin given the ball for the fifth over, his first ball is full on Narine's pads and the latter flicks it through square leg for four. Ashwin then goes short outside leg next ball and Narine sends that over square leg as well for another four. The fourth ball is sent in across Narine outside off back of a length, Narine stays in the crease and launches it over mid off for a six.
Narine on 20 off 11 balls at the end of that over, Rahane on 17 off 10.
KKR 50/1 in 5 overs
- 7 May 2025, 07:46:46 PM IST
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: Ajinkya Rahane has taken off!
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: Rahane once again with the goods for KKR in the powerplay. Khaleel goes wide down the leg side first ball to Narine after which there is a big appeal off the second ball for LBW. Dhoni told Khaleel that it is going down the leg side and Narine ran a leg bye there. Then Khaleel sends the fourth ball nicely in the slot on middle and leg, Rahane sends it over mid on. Then a back of a length delivery outside off to finish the over. Rahane sends it over mid on, lots of hang time and then it lands safe and bounces over the boundary.
KKR 27/1 in 3 overs
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- 7 May 2025, 07:42:36 PM IST
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: Meanwhile, some breaking news
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: Rohit Sharma has just announced his retirement from Test cricket. He has specifically said that he will continue to represent India in ODIs. This means that the fourth Test in Australia was indeed the last time we saw him in whites. An incredible career, probably didn't touch the heights that it deserved in this format, but we saw a glimpse of Rohit's full potential between 2019 and around 2023 and he played some glorious innings consistently in that period. Farewell legend!
- 7 May 2025, 07:37:53 PM IST
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: OUT! Kamboj with the early strike for CSK
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: Gurbaz hits it straight into the hands of midwicket and that is that for him! This was a fullish delivery, angling into the pads. Gurbaz flicks it but can't keep it down. An easy catch there for Noor Ahmad.
Gurbaz c Noor Ahmad b Kamboj 11 (9)
KKR 11/1 in 1.3 overs
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- 7 May 2025, 07:36:42 PM IST
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: Just 5 runs in the first over!
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: A very good start here for CSK, as is usually the case with Khaleel really.
- 7 May 2025, 07:30:06 PM IST
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: HERE WE GO!
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: Anish Sahasrabudhe and Adrian Holdstock are the umpires today. A lot of yellow all over the Eden Gardens, all for MS Dhoni of course. He is out there early on with KKR batting first. Rahmanullah Gurbaz is facing up with Sunil Narine at the other end. Khaleel Ahmed, as usual, to bowl the first over for CSK.
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- 7 May 2025, 07:25:05 PM IST
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: What Rahane and Dhoni said...
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: Ajinkya Rahane: We will bat first. Looks a good wicket. Last two games we batted first and did really well. We want to put runs on the board and defend it. What's important is taking one game at a time. Not thinking much about the future. Lots of learnings from the previous match, guys are looking forward to this game. You are bound to lose close games, but you need to be confident. If there's a chance, we will try to give our best. Venkatesh Iyer misses out, Manish Pandey comes in.
MS Dhoni: I have played a lot of cricket here while growing up, like a home ground for the amount of cricket I have played here. When it was Zonal trophy, a few office leagues, overall I have played a lot of cricket here and nearby. What's important is to get answers for the next year. What hasn't gone well for us in the tournament. Trying to get those answers, our middle order batting and bowling solutions. We are giving chances to players, but we want a good playing XI or XII. You can try such things towards the end. What players will slot in. They have two quality spinners, so it will be a challenge. Conway and Urvil Patel come in for Rasheed and Curran.
- 7 May 2025, 07:12:43 PM IST
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: CSK XI and Impact Subs
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: Ayush Mhatre, Urvil Patel, Devon Conway, Ravindra Jadeja, Dewald Brevis, Ravichandran Ashwin, MS Dhoni(w/c), Anshul Kamboj, Noor Ahmad, Khaleel Ahmed, Matheesha Pathirana
Impact Subs: Shivam Dube, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Ramakrishna Ghosh, Jamie Overton, Deepak Hooda
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- 7 May 2025, 07:12:08 PM IST
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: KKR XI and Impact Subs
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: Rahmanullah Gurbaz(w), Sunil Narine, Ajinkya Rahane(c), Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Manish Pandey, Andre Russell, Rinku Singh, Moeen Ali, Ramandeep Singh, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakaravarthy
Impact Subs: Harshit Rana, Anukul Roy, Luvnith Sisodia, Anrich Nortje, Mayank Markande
- 7 May 2025, 07:03:32 PM IST
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: TOSS TIME!
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: Ajinkya Rahane has won the toss and KKR are batting first.
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- 7 May 2025, 06:52:46 PM IST
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: Pitch report…
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: Deep Dasgupta says that today's pitch is right in the middle of the square. It means that the square boundary to the right-hander's leg side, when bowling from the Clubhouse End, is 64m, with the off side being 62m. 75m hit straight down the ground. He adds it looks a little tacky. A few pieces are loose, says Aaron Finch, and there could be some variable pace and bounce. Scoring against the new ball, thus, could be crucial. There are patches where the pitch looks hard, with other patches not as much, and that could mean a two-paced surface. Putting runs on the board could be the way to go here, given the recent record and the general lack of dew at this venue this season.
- 7 May 2025, 06:41:31 PM IST
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: KKR's heartstopper against RR
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Ajinkya Rahane and Angkrish Raghuvanshi set things up for KKR and Andre Russell finished it as they scored 206/4 batting first. KKR then seemed set for a big win with RR tottering at 71/5 in the eighth over. But it ended up not being so straightforward for the defending champions thanks Riyan Parag playing one of the most extraordinary innings you would ever get to see in the IPL. He smashed 95 off 45 balls and put up a 92-run stand off 48 balls with Shimron Hetmyer, who scored just 29 in 23. The game see-sawed viciously after Parag fell in the 18th over but with RR needing 22 to win off the final over, Shubham Dubey went 6, 4, 6 off the third, fourth and fifth balls. It came down to three needed off the last ball and the batters could run only two of those.
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- 7 May 2025, 06:23:54 PM IST
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: Ravindra Jadeja's bowling under spotlight
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: He is never easy to face but curiously, Ravindra Jadeja has completed his quota in only one game this season. He has taken just seven wickets in 11 matches and is averaging 35.14.
- 7 May 2025, 06:08:31 PM IST
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: Rahane has 5000 in sight
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: Ajinkya Rahane is just 31 runs away from becoming the ninth player to reach 5,000 runs in the IPL. Rahane has made 4,969 runs in 196 matches and 181 innings at an average of 30.48, with a strike rate of 124.72. He has made two centuries and 33 fifties, with the best score of 105*. He is the ninth-highest run-getter in the league of all time. This season, Rahane has made 327 runs at an average of 36.33 and a strike rate of over 146 with three fifties and the best score of 61. He is the team's top run-getter this season.
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- 7 May 2025, 05:53:01 PM IST
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: Ayush Mhatre shines at the top for CSK
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: It was in the second half of the 2020 season, the first one in which CSK failed to make it past the group stage, that Ruturaj Gaikwad emerged. Now, another dark season seems to have produced yet another opening gem for CSK. The 17-year-old has especially provided an antidote to CSK's powerplay struggles with the bat, striking at 189 in this period. In CSK's last match against RCB, Mhatre smashed 94 runs in 45 balls, almost powering his side to victory in a 214-run chase.
- 7 May 2025, 05:35:18 PM IST
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: Ajinkya Rahane's contrasting record vs spin and pace
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: Ajinkya Rahane's vastly different returns against pace and spin is quite something this season. The KKR captain averages 104.5 and strikes at 174.17 against pace but against the turning ball, it drops to 16.86 and 114.56 respectively.
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- 7 May 2025, 05:25:55 PM IST
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: Sunil Narine and Varun Chakaravarthy's record vs CSK
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: Apart from KKR's spinners generally being the most prolific of all teams this season, Sunil Narine and Varun Chakravarthy have an excellent record against CSK. Only Shivam Dube in this lineup who strikes over 100 against Chakravarthy while against Narine, it is only Curran.
- 7 May 2025, 05:18:19 PM IST
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: Can CSK counter KKR's spin threat
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: KKR's spinners have been on song this season. The defending champions have the best economy among spinners (7.6) and the most wickets (31). On the other hand, CSK have lost the most wickets to spin (32) and have the lowest strike-rate (124)
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- 7 May 2025, 05:05:43 PM IST
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: What's left for KKR?
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: Today's match against CSK is KKR's last league game at home. And if they don't make it to the second qualifier, then their last game at home overall this year. After this comes a match against another side that has nothing to lose - SRH, in Hyderabad. Their final league match is against RCB in Bengaluru.
- 7 May 2025, 04:52:23 PM IST
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: KKR Full Squad
KKR vs CSK IPL 2025 Live Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: Rahmanullah Gurbaz(w), Sunil Narine, Ajinkya Rahane(c), Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Andre Russell, Rinku Singh, Moeen Ali, Venkatesh Iyer, Ramandeep Singh, Varun Chakaravarthy, Vaibhav Arora, Harshit Rana, Anukul Roy, Manish Pandey, Rovman Powell, Luvnith Sisodia, Anrich Nortje, Mayank Markande, Spencer Johnson, Chetan Sakariya, Quinton de Kock
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