The Chennai Super Kings (CSK) bagged a five-wicket win over the Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) in the 30th match of IPL 2025 at the Ekana Cricket Stadium, Lucknow, on Monday, April 14.
After losing the toss, LSG were asked to bat first. Aiden Markram failed to live up to expectations, scoring only six runs. Nicholas Pooran, the explosive batter, could score only eight runs.
Mitchell Marsh 30) and Rishabh Pant stitched a 50-run stand for the third wicket. Ayush Badoni (22) and Abdul Samad (20) played important knocks in the middle overs. Pant scored 63 runs off 49 balls with four fours and as many sixes.
Eventually, LSG posted a good-looking total of 166/7 in 20 overs. Ravindra Jadeja and Matheesha Pathirana scalped two wickets each, while Khaleel Ahmed and Anshul Kamboj bagged one apiece.
In the chase, Rachin Ravindra and Shaik Rasheed started off well, scoring 52 runs for the first wicket. Rasheed scored 27 runs in 19 balls with six fours, while Ravindra smacked 37 runs in 22 balls with five fours.
Rahul Tripathi (9), Ravindra Jadeja (7) and Vijay Shankar (9) failed to make an impact in the middle overs. Nevertheless, Shivam Dube and MS Dhoni picked up the intensity in the dying moments of the chase.
While Dube smacked 43* runs in 37 balls, Dhoni scored 26* runs in 11 balls. Ultimately, CSK chased down the target in the last over of the game with five wickets in hand. Ravi Bishnoi scalped two wickets while Digvesh Rathi, Avesh Khan, and Aiden Markram picked up one wicket apiece.
IPL 2025 Most Runs List
Despite his rare failure against CSK, Nicholas Pooran remains at the top spot in the run-scoring charts with 357 runs. B Sai Sudharsan (329), Mitchell Marsh (295) and Shreyas Iyer (250) continue to hold the second, third, and fourth ranks, respectively.
Virat Kohli (248), Suryakumar Yadav (239), Jos Buttler (218), Travis Head (214), Tilak Varma (210) and Phil Salt (208) retain their fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and 10th ranks, respectively.
IPL 2025 Most Wickets List
CSK spinner Noor Ahmad remains at pole position with 12 wickets from seven innings. Khaleel Ahmed moved up from the eighth to the second rank with 11 wickets from seven innings.
Shardul Thakur (11), Kuldeep Yadav (10), Hardik Pandya (10), Prasidh Krishna (10), R Sai Kishore (10), and Mohammed Siraj (10) slid one spot each to the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth ranks at 24.90, 11.20, 14.10, 16, 16.8, and 20.4 respectively.
Mitchell Starc (9) and Josh Hazlewood (9) descended one position each to the ninth and 10th ranks at an average of 20.22 and 21, respectively.
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