IPL 2025, KKR vs CSK Highlights: MS Dhoni guides CSK home in 180-run chase, KKR all but knocked out

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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! 

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

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.

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. 

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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)

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.

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