PBKS vs CSK, IPL 2025 Highlights: PBKS beat CSK by 18 runs

PBKS vs CSK, Punjab Kings vs Chennai Super Kings, IPL 2025 Live Score: The runs and wickets are coming at the speed of sound in this match. Wadhera throws the kitchen sink at the second ball of the eighth over, it goes high up in the air and Dhoni takes the straightforward catch. Ashwin is pumped!

Wadhera c Dhoni b Ashwin 9 (7)

PBKS 81/4 in 7.2 overs

PBKS vs CSK, Punjab Kings vs Chennai Super Kings, IPL 2025 Live Score: Well PBKS lost three wickets in the powerplay and yet they have got 75 runs in it almost entirely thanks to young Priyansh Arya. Ravichandran Ashwin comes in to bowl the last over of the powerplay. His first ball is angled on middle and leg, Arya sends it over square leg for a four. Two runs off the second ball and then a single and then Nehal Wadhera blasts the first ball he faces in this match over deep midwicket for a six. He takes a single next ball, Ashwin then sends the last ball down leg for a wide. Then Arya sends the last ball of the powerplay over wide long off to get to 53 in 19 balls.

PBKS 75/3 in 6 overs

PBKS vs CSK, Punjab Kings vs Chennai Super Kings, IPL 2025 Live Score: CSK have three wickets in the powerplay!

PBKS vs CSK, Punjab Kings vs Chennai Super Kings, IPL 2025 Live Score: What a big strike that is! Shreyas had hit a six off the second ball of that over and then run two. Khaleel then sends in an absolute peach, full length outside off is where it starts and then it darts in sharply. Iyer tries to play it down the ground, the ball goes past his inside edge and crashes on to the stumps.

Shreyas Iyer b Khaleel Ahmed 9 (7)

PBKS 32/2 in 2.4 overs

PBKS vs CSK, Punjab Kings vs Chennai Super Kings, IPL 2025 Live Score: The second ball of the second over is back of a length, outside off. It curves in late, Prabhsimran is cramped up and he inside edges it to his leg stump.

PBKS vs CSK, Punjab Kings vs Chennai Super Kings, IPL 2025 Live Score: Wow the first ball of the match is sent flying over point by Priyansh Arya for a six. And then Khaleel drops a catch second ball himself. To make matters worse, he oversteps third ball. Thankfully for him, Jadeja pulls off an incredible catch off the free hit delivery at backward point to make it a dot ball. Two runs off the next and then another six over cover point. Then two runs to end the over.

PBKS vs CSK, Punjab Kings vs Chennai Super Kings, IPL 2025 Live Score: Khaleel Ahmed has the ball in his hands, Priyansh Arya facing up with Prabhsimran Singh at the other end. Here we go!

PBKS vs CSK, Punjab Kings vs Chennai Super Kings, IPL 2025 Live Score: Shreyas Iyer: "We are going to have a bat first, it's simply because we had a discussion how our batting lineup is and we need to make the best use of it. In the last game, the dew wasn't that much but that's not in our control but we need to back out strengths. We are going in with the same team. We have got really good spin bowlers in our team but it's important how we use them on a given occasion. The last game the ball wasn't turning very much, got to give credit to the Rajasthan batsmen as well, they batted really well. We hope we can execute whatever we have planned today."

Ruturaj Gaikwad: "We were looking to bat first as well, pretty dry wicket, new conditions for us and we need to adapt as soon as possible. We have been bowling pretty well but we have conceded more than 15 runs an over twice in an innings, hopefully we can improve on that. We also need to improve our fielding. Same team for us. Me batting at 3 gives a bit more balance to our squad, it was decided during the auction time and hoping our openers will come good today. We have always been behind the game in the powerplay, it's just about going out there and enjoying ourselves."

PBKS vs CSK, Punjab Kings vs Chennai Super Kings, IPL 2025 Live Score: Rachin Ravindra, Devon Conway, Ruturaj Gaikwad(c), Vijay Shankar, Ravindra Jadeja, MS Dhoni(w), Ravichandran Ashwin, Noor Ahmad, Mukesh Choudhary, Khaleel Ahmed, Matheesha Pathirana

Impact Subs: Shivam Dube, Jamie Overton, Rahul Tripathi, Deepak Hooda, Anshul Kamboj

PBKS vs CSK, Punjab Kings vs Chennai Super Kings, IPL 2025 Live Score: Priyansh Arya, Prabhsimran Singh(w), Shreyas Iyer(c), Shashank Singh, Marcus Stoinis, Nehal Wadhera, Glenn Maxwell, Marco Jansen, Arshdeep Singh, Lockie Ferguson, Yuzvendra Chahal

Impact Subs: Suryansh Shedge, Yash Thakur, Praveen Dubey, Azmatullah Omarzai, Vyshak Vijaykumar

PBKS vs CSK, Punjab Kings vs Chennai Super Kings, IPL 2025 Live Score: Shreyas Iyer has won the toss and Punjab Kings are batting first.

PBKS vs CSK, Punjab Kings vs Chennai Super Kings, IPL 2025 Live Score: Daren Ganga and Michael Clarke on the pitch report today: "We move pitches, we move a little eastwards, it’s a new pitch. The boundary dimensions have changed, the captains and bowlers will use the larger square boundary, 69m, a difference of 7m and it’s 74m down the ground. Consistency is the word that comes to mind, it looks identical to the wicket on Saturday. There are a few dry areas, I think batting and bowling stayed pretty consistent. Runs on the board helped on Saturday. The most important thing for me is the length you bowl on this wicket. Sometimes you saw that when you overpitch, the ball came on nicely and it’s easy to hit through the line and if you drop it too short, that set up nicely. Jofra Arches hit the top of good length, I think that’s your area so the length is crucial here."

PBKS vs CSK, Punjab Kings vs Chennai Super Kings, IPL 2025 Live Score: CSK's run rates have looked rather outdated this season considering we are now in an era where par score is normally 200. They have the lowest scoring rate (7.50), lowest average (22.50) and lowest boundary percentage (17.24 %) among all teams in the powerplay in this IPL.

PBKS vs CSK, Punjab Kings vs Chennai Super Kings, IPL 2025 Live Score: Shivam Dube is trying to regain his status as a scourge of spinners, Yuzvendra Chahal is among the best of them but he has problems bowling to left handers.

PBKS vs CSK, Punjab Kings vs Chennai Super Kings, IPL 2025 Live Score: He is one of the greatest finishes the game has ever seen in limited overs cricket but MS Dhoni's storied career seems to be finishing off (if in case he is planning to retire before the end of this decade) in a manner opposite to that reputation. Dhoni averages only 13.80 in CSK's wins since 2023 while his average in losses goes up to 90.67. He has not scored a single boundary in a successful run chase in this period

PBKS vs CSK, Punjab Kings vs Chennai Super Kings, IPL 2025 Live Score: Nicholas Pooran put on yet another masterclass and finished unbeaten on 87 off 36 balls. Mitchell Marsh also blasted 81 in 48 balls and all this helped LSG get to a score of 238/3.

PBKS vs CSK, Punjab Kings vs Chennai Super Kings, IPL 2025 Live Score: Once you develop a reputation for being good at something, the next big challenge is to maintain that when opponents find a way to prevent you from capitalising on your strength. That is where Shivam Dube seems to be at the moment. Before May last year, Dube had fallen to spin just five out of 21 times. Since then he has fallen six out of times he has faced spin.

PBKS vs CSK, Punjab Kings vs Chennai Super Kings, IPL 2025 Live Score: There was a sizeable roar around the ground at the Chepauk when Ruturaj Gaikwad had announced at the toss of CSK's last match that Devon Conway was opening for them. However, there weren't too many cheers when he fell for a 14-ball 13. Apart from not really being in form, Conway will be up against Arshdeep Singh today if he plays. Arshdeep has dismissed him three times in four innings in the IPL.

PBKS vs CSK, Punjab Kings vs Chennai Super Kings, IPL 2025 Live Score: CSK used to rule this head to head quite comprehensively but PBKS have clawed back in recent years. They currently lead it 16-14, with PBKS winning four of the last five fixtures.

PBKS vs CSK, Punjab Kings vs Chennai Super Kings, IPL 2025 Live Score: A key aspect of CSK's three defeats thus far this season has been their inability to get anywhere in the powerplay with the bat. They have a run rate of 7.50 in this period, the lowest among all teams this season by some distance.

PBKS vs CSK, Punjab Kings vs Chennai Super Kings, IPL 2025 Live Score: Punjab Kings lost their first match at home quite comprehensively after looking almost perfect in their first two games. However, this is in keeping with the unwanted trend that PBKS have been stuck in. They have a win percentage of only 13.3 at home since 2023.

PBKS vs CSK, Punjab Kings vs Chennai Super Kings, IPL 2025 Live Score: Sam Curran was seen as a future leader for CSK for a few months back when he was pretty much the next big shining thing in all forms of cricket overall. Things haven't quite turned out that way for the English all-rounder in internationals and now, cracks seem to be showing in the confidence that IPL franchises have laid on him. PBKS chose to let him go ahead of the mega auction and there really was no argument against that but CSK still signed him for INR 2.4 crore. Now, he was dropped from the eleven in their previous match.

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

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

PBKS vs CSK, Punjab Kings vs Chennai Super Kings, IPL 2025 Live Score: Both sides have Kings in their name but their lives have been almost diametric opposites thus far, both in terms of this season and overall, although for almost opposing reasons. Stay tuned for more updates!