IPL 2025, LSG vs CSK Highlights: MS Dhoni magic strikes at last as CSK beat LSG by five wickets

LSG vs CSK IPL Live Score 2025, Lucknow Super Giants vs Chennai Super Kings: Murali Kartik says at the end of that interview that this is the first time the CSK icon has won the player of the match since 2019. “Well, that's a long time,” says Dhoni with a big gaping smile. Here is what he said in his interview.

"Good to win a game. Unfortunately matches didn't go our way, whatever the reason. So good to get a win on our side. GIves a lot of confidence to the whole, helps us improve ourselves. We all know that when it doesn't come your way in cricket, God makes it tough. It was a tough game. Glad to be on the winning side, hope it gives us some momentum.

"The powerplay (went our way). We used to struggle with the ball early on. Then we would come back in the middle overs and more often than not at the death. Here the opposition was restricted after getting off to a good start. But we were not getting the kind of starts we wanted with the bat. The fall of wickets at the wrong time, one of the reason could be that the Chennai wickets are slightly on the slower side. The batting unit has started much better away from home so maybe we want to play games on wickets that are better and can given the batters the confidence to play their shots.

"So far yes (bowling has been better than batting). We made a few changes because we wanted to make sure the first six overs are slightly better. We were putting too much pressure on Ash in the powerplay. So we made a few changes so we could have more bowlers who could bowl in the first six. More maneouvarability for the captain. As a batting unit we can do even better.

“Roles and responsibilites are what we talk about. What is important is to get off to a good start. If you can break through later, then why not. People say in a team environment you need to adapt but if you are good at something and it helps the team then why change that.

"He (Shaik Rashid) batted really well. He has been with us for a few years. We have seen improvement last year and this year. We needed to make a few changes in the batting order. He batted really well but it's just the start. He has the capability to dominate. What he has to do is play the shots that he ahs there in his armoury and not trying to hit out like some other batters.

“I was thinking why I am given the award, I thought Noor bowled really well. Noor and Jaddu's overs in the middle, those were the two spans in which I felt we did really well.”

LSG vs CSK IPL Live Score 2025, Lucknow Super Giants vs Chennai Super Kings: Dube hits the winning runs! An incredible comeback from CSK and they avoid the sixth consecutive defeat. For LSG, well, Pant really needs to be wondering how it is that not a single spinner bowled in the death overs of a match in which spinners dominated.

But well, none of that is the topic today. MS Dhoni. There have been calls for him to stop playing on the basis of his performances with the bat this season but well, if he plays knocks like these then those voices won't be heard anywhere for miles and miles. A stunning knock, giving the kids today a little glimpse of what it was like to experience the great man at his pomp. CSK remain bottom of the table but remember, RCB did reach the playoffs after getting off to a similarly bad start last season.

LSG vs CSK IPL Live Score 2025, Lucknow Super Giants vs Chennai Super Kings: Well wonder if this was Rishabh Pant's plan all along. Give Ravi Bishnoi five runs to defend in the last over. LSG's tactics have fallen apart spectacularly and importantly, MS DHoni has made full use of it.

LSG vs CSK IPL Live Score 2025, Lucknow Super Giants vs Chennai Super Kings: Well this is quite puzzling from the LSG captain. Spinners have been ruling the roost today and Ravi Bishnoi has arguably the best of them, certainly for LSG. And yet, MS Dhoni is yet to face a single delivery of spin yet. Bishnoi has an over left, and it is Shardul Thakur bowling the penultimate over. Dube on strike

CSK need 24 to win from 12 balls

Dhoni on 20 off eight, Dube on 26 off 30.

CSK 143/5 in 18 overs

LSG vs CSK IPL Live Score 2025, Lucknow Super Giants vs Chennai Super Kings: MSD TIME! Shardul Thakur bowls the 17th over, Dube drives through the covers for a four off the second ball. He gets off strike fourth ball and then Thakur bowls two back to back wides. The fifth ball is a dot and then the sixth is pulled away by Dhoni one handed for a six.

Dhoni has moved to 15 off six, Dube on 24 off 26.

CSK 136/5 in 17 overs, need 31 to win from 18.

LSG vs CSK IPL Live Score 2025, Lucknow Super Giants vs Chennai Super Kings: Oh this ground has come to life here! Avesh Khan bowls the 16th over, three singles off the first three balls. Then Dhoni blazes the fifth one through covers and the crowd absolutely erupts. Then he deliberately edges the last ball through the vacant slips region for another boundary.

Dhoni on 9 off 4, Dube on 19 off 22.

CSK need 44 to win from 24

LSG vs CSK IPL Live Score 2025, Lucknow Super Giants vs Chennai Super Kings: Caught at short third! Vijay Shankar goes and MS Dhoni walks in. Shankar was trying to smash the ball downtown, edged and Avesh takes the catch at short third.

Shankar c Avesh Khan b Rathi 9 (8)

CSK 111/5 in 15 overs

LSG vs CSK IPL Live Score 2025, Lucknow Super Giants vs Chennai Super Kings: Just five runs in the 14th over and that required rate keeps creeping higher and higher. It is now 9.66.

CSK 109/4 in 14 overs

LSG vs CSK IPL Live Score 2025, Lucknow Super Giants vs Chennai Super Kings: Jadeja has simply not going today and he hits this down the throat of long on. Bishnoi tosses up the second ball of the 13th, Jadeja goes for it and perishes.

Jadeja c Markram b Ravi Bishnoi 7 (11)

CSK 96/4 in 12.2 overs

LSG vs CSK IPL Live Score 2025, Lucknow Super Giants vs Chennai Super Kings: Well that required rate-current rate equation at the end of the powerplay has now been flipped on its head. CSK need to go at nine an over but they are currently going at 7.91. Markram returns for the 12th over, Dube clubs the second ball over deep midwicket for six but there has been little else for CSK.

CSK 95/3 in 12 overs

LSG vs CSK IPL Live Score 2025, Lucknow Super Giants vs Chennai Super Kings: The spinners fired for CSK, now the spinners are firing for LSG. Bishnoi gets Tripathi after all. He tries to reach out for the fifth ball of the ninth and ends up lobbing it staright back to the bowler.

Tripathi c & b Ravi Bishnoi 9 (10)

CSK 76/3 in 8.5 overs

LSG vs CSK IPL Live Score 2025, Lucknow Super Giants vs Chennai Super Kings: Big shout for LBW, given and Ravindra reviews. That looked absolutely plumb in real time though. Ravindra missed out on the slog, delivery angling into him from around the wicket. There is no bat on it and ball tracking shows it's hitting middle and off.

Ravindra lbw b Markram 37 (22)

CSK 74/2 in 8 overs

LSG vs CSK IPL Live Score 2025, Lucknow Super Giants vs Chennai Super Kings: LSG are well behind in this match and howlers like those are something they'd be all to happy to avoid. Ravi Bishnoi bowling the first over after powerplay, starts off too short and Ravindra sends it right back down the ground for four. A single next ball and Tripathi miscues a lofted shot down the ground. Samad runs in and the ball just pops out of his hands. Two runs off the last ball, Tripathi on six off five, Ravindra on 32 off 18.

CSK 67/1 in 7 overs

LSG vs CSK IPL Live Score 2025, Lucknow Super Giants vs Chennai Super Kings: They need 108 to win from 84 now. CSK's required rate is 7.71 but they are going at 9.83. Rahul Tripathi off the mark with a four off the third ball of that sixth over bowled by Digvesh Rathi, swept through square leg. The over ends with two singles.

Ravindra on 25 off 13, Tripathi on five off four.

LSG vs CSK IPL Live Score 2025, Lucknow Super Giants vs Chennai Super Kings: Avesh Khan ends the debut. Avesh takes the pace off fifth ball of the fifth over, short of a length outside off. Rasheed tries to hit it with power, he hasn't really done that thus far in this innings. Top edge and it falls to midwicket where Pooran makes no mistake.

Rasheed c Pooran b Avesh Khan 27 (19)

CSK 52/1 in 4.5 overs

LSG vs CSK IPL Live Score 2025, Lucknow Super Giants vs Chennai Super Kings: Thakur continues for the third over and Ravindra and Rasheed are taking the early salvo from LSG apart with shots that are straight out of the batting textbook really.

LSG vs CSK IPL Live Score 2025, Lucknow Super Giants vs Chennai Super Kings: Akash Deep bowls the second over, Ravindra gets off strike first ball. Then Rasheed flicks the third ball off his pads through midwicket for four. Rasheed gets the fifth one past mid-on for another four and the last is pulled over the infield for another.

Rasheed is on 13 off eight, Ravindra on 10 off four.

CSK 23/0 in 2 overs

LSG vs CSK IPL Live Score 2025, Lucknow Super Giants vs Chennai Super Kings: Debutant Shaik Rasheed is on strike for CSK, Rachin Ravindra at the other end. Shardul Thakur bowling the first over for LSG.

LSG vs CSK IPL Live Score 2025, Lucknow Super Giants vs Chennai Super Kings: Pathirana finishes the LSG innings off with a wicket. Shardul Thakur caught at mid-on. He thus finishes with figures of 2/45. Well, this is a below par compared to the rest of the season but then CSK have been woefully short of the mark with the bat. Moreover, this hasn't looked the easiest of pitches to bat on.

LSG vs CSK IPL Live Score 2025, Lucknow Super Giants vs Chennai Super Kings: There is no doubt that this is arguably the most important innings of the day for LSG but will this push them to victory? Pant swings for the rafters second ball, it goes straight up in the air and Dhoni takes it with no problems indeed.

Pant c Dhoni b Pathirana 63 (49)

LSG 158/ in 19.2 overs

LSG vs CSK IPL Live Score 2025, Lucknow Super Giants vs Chennai Super Kings: The second ball of the last over of the innings by Pathirana is full down the leg side. The batters try to steal a bye. Dhoni collects and underarms it to the non-striker's end where the ball cleanly falls to the base of the stumps. Samad beaten cleanly.

Samad run out (Dhoni) 20 (11)

LSG 155/5 in 19.2 overs

LSG vs CSK IPL Live Score 2025, Lucknow Super Giants vs Chennai Super Kings: Khaleel bowls the penultimate over. Samad runs two off the first and a single off the second deliveries. Pant then goes straight down the ground for a six. Then he top edges a pull shit fifth ball of that over, Shaik Rasheed runs in from mid-off, seems to have misjudged how far away it is from him and he drops it. The batters run a single off that and then Samad pulls the last ball high over deep midwicket for a six.

LSG vs CSK IPL Live Score 2025, Lucknow Super Giants vs Chennai Super Kings: He gets a move on at last. Pathirana starts with a wide yorker down the leg side and Abdul Samad runs a bye as well from it. Pant then smashes the first legal delivery straight down the ground for six. Pant then drills the second ball through covers and runs two. Then he pulls at the third ball so hard that his hand came off the bat, sweet connection though and it goes over deep midwicket for a six.

Pant moves to 55 off 44 at the end of that, Samad on 11 off eight.

LSG 139/4 in 18 overs

LSG vs CSK IPL Live Score 2025, Lucknow Super Giants vs Chennai Super Kings: LSG have been brought screeching to a halt here and Noor Ahmad gets a lot of credit for that. Just three runs in the 17th over and that was his last of this match. He has finished with exception figures of 0/13. LST are going at a run rate of 7.11.

LSG 121/4 in 17 overs

LSG vs CSK IPL Live Score 2025, Lucknow Super Giants vs Chennai Super Kings: Well there we go! Jadeja gets his man after all! He comes down the pitch for the third ball, misses it entirely and Dhoni had all the time in the world to effect the stumping. But then well, how about this, the umpires are checking if Dhoni had collected the ball in front of the stumps! In the end, it is decided that it was a fair dismissal.

Badoni st Dhoni b Jadeja 22 (17)

LSG 105/4 in 13.4 overs