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CSK vs PBKS IPL 2025 match

IPL 2025: PBKS stamp the elimination of CSK with a 4-wicket win

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Chennai Super Kings are known to break records. This season as well, the team broke multiple records, but all the unwanted ones. IPL 2025 marked the first-ever edition for CSK to lose five matches in a row. It was the first time for the five-time champions to fall to the absolute bottom of the points table. Now, it is the first time for Chennai Super Kings to miss on the playoffs qualification in back-to-back seasons. The CSK vs PBKS IPL 2025 match was reduced into a sequence of 'what ifs' by the time it ended in the last over of the chase. What if CSK had crossed the 200-run mark? What if the LBW chance against Prabhsimran Singh had not ended with the umpire's call in the powerplay? Irrespectively, as it stands, CSK has now become the first team to be officially eliminated from the IPL 2025 playoffs race.

Sam Curran put up an impressive fight with a half-century in the CSK vs PBKS IPL 2025 match

There was a fight at home in the CSK vs PBKS IPL 2025 match, something that has been disappointingly missing in the team's game this season. Put to bat first at Chepauk, CSK started anticipatedly, avoiding the big shots on the tricky pitch in the powerplay. After waiting for two overs, Shaik Rasheed finally got going, hitting a four and a six against Arshdeep Singh. However, that was about it, as the Punjab Kings seamer dismissed the young opener on the very next ball. Ayush Mhatre failed to get going on the turf, following his opening partner to the dugout soon after, in the fourth over off Marco Jansen, as CSK was reduced to 22 for 2 in the powerplay.

However, Sam Curran, sent in at number three, was in the mood to roar his abilities. Playing against his former team, the English all-rounder held his ground in the tough conditions. As Ravindra Jadeja departed early, Curran found an ideal partner in Dewald Brevis. The duo took seamlessly to the PBKS bowlers, commanding the middle overs and orchestrating the fight for CSK’s batting order, finally, in IPL 2025. The CSK batters got going against Chahal, as Curran sent two boundaries and Brevis hit a sixer to seal the 9th over. In the middle, Marco Jansen and Azmatullah Omarzai emerged as the targets as Brevis and Curran found timely boundaries.

However, Omarzai returned in the 15th over, cramping Brevis for room with a good-length delivery that cleared the stumps before the batter's foot reacted. Brevis departed at 32 off 26 with the score at 126 for 3. Sam Curran took matters entirely into his own hands from there, as Shivam Dube watched from the other end. A 30-ball fifty followed, Curran's maiden in the season.

The 16th over, bowled by Suryansh Shedge, was sent for 26 runs by Sam Curran, who hit two sixes and as many fours in the over. Arshdeep Singh put the brakes on Curran’s onslaught in the next over, giving just four runs off it despite bowling two wides. Marco Jansen endured another sixer before the pacer finally got rid of Sam Curran in the 18th over at 88 off 47.

Yuzvendra Chahal scalped a hat-trick as his 4-wicket over stunted Chennai Super Kings at just 190

With the score at 172, CSK’s total was projected to reach at least 220 comfortably from there. However, little did Chepauk know that Yuzvendra Chahal, kept hidden until then after going for 23 runs in two overs, would script his redeeming arc, one for the history books. The spinner returned in the penultimate over against MS Dhoni. The CSK captain had hit his first ball of the innings for a four against Marco Jansen.

Chahal was welcomed with a sixer by MS Dhoni. However, 10 off 4 remained the Chennai skipper's score, as Chahal dismissed him on the next delivery. At 18.4, Chahal removed Deepak Hooda. At 18.5, the spinner bowled Anshul Kamboj out. At 18.6, the leg-spinner got Noor Ahmad, who hit a rogue shot at his first delivery. And with that, Chahal picked a hat-trick, first for any bowler in IPL 2025. The four-wicket over by Yuzvendra Chahal stunted Chennai Super Kings right there.

The last over, bowled by Arshdeep Singh, had four balls remaining before CSK's innings was bundled at 190, as Shivam Dube walked off at the second delivery with a caught dismissal. Once projected to be 220, CSK fell at least 20 runs short of what was required to pick a victory against Punjab Kings.

A solid partnership between Shreyas Iyer and Prabhsimran Singh ensured the victory of Punjab Kings at Chepauk

Prabhsimran Singh and Priyansh Arya played according to the conditions at Chepauk, urging their natural game of going all guns blazing in the powerplay. Even when Priyansh was dismissed in the fifth over by Khaleel Ahmed at 23 off 15, Prabhsimran maintained his poise. It was a subtle but solid partnership for Punjab Kings from there, as the captain, Shreyas Iyer, joined Prabhsimran Singh at the crease. Ever so subtle in their onslaught, Prabhsimran and Iyer knitted a 72-run partnership, enough for a victory cause in the chase of 191. In the midst, Prabhsimran survived three dismissals.

Once when an LBW review met the umpire’s call for impact in the last over of the powerplay, bowled by Jadeja. Next, off a shot hit against Sam Curran which landed a bit short from Ravindra Jadeja. And another when Pathirana dropped a sitter. However, luck finally favoured CSK when Prabhsimran was caught by Dewald Brevis in the deep. The opener departed at 54 off 36 in the 13th over against Noor Ahmad.

CSK managed to pick more wickets from there, with Jadeja holding on to Nehal Wadhera off Pathirana in the 15th over. Another one came animatedly as Dewald Brevis caught Shashank Singh in three attempts at the boundary line. However, with Shreyas Iyer and Prabhsimran Singh setting a solid foundation with their respective half-centuries, it was clear that 190 would fall short, despite the late emergence of CSK in the chase. The last over, bowled by Khaleel Ahmed, was nothing but an agonising wait.

Punjab Kings lost Shreyas Iyer in the penultimate over bowled by Pathirana when the team needed just three to win. From there, proceedings stretched to the last over. In the final over, PBKS lost Suryansh Shedge before getting the two runs to win. Finally, on the fourth delivery of the last over by Khaleel, Marco Jansen hit a four as the CSK vs PBKS IPL 2025 match ended in a four-wicket victory for the visitors.

With that, Chennai Super Kings officially became the first team to be eliminated from the IPL 2025 playoffs race. Still languishing at the bottom of the IPL 2025 points table, CSK have three more matches left in the league stage. It would be an attempt to leave the bottom spot from here for the five-time champions in IPL 2025. For PBKS, IPL 2025 remains largely open, with the side led by Shreyas Iyer aiming at nothing less than a Top 2 finish.

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