Chennai Tremendous Kings suffered their eighth defeat within the Indian Premier League 2025. With their loss to Punjab Kings at Chepauk, five-time champions CSK have been knocked out of the race from the IPL 2025 playoffs.
Chennai Tremendous Kings have formally been knocked out of the race for the IPL 2025 playoffs as Punjab Kings drew curtains on the five-time champions’ marketing campaign on Wednesday, April 30. Shreyas Iyer and Prabhsimran Singh led the way in which extraordinarily effectively within the 191-run chase towards CSK on the MA Chidambaram Stadium.
With this loss, CSK have grow to be the primary group to be knocked out of the race to the playoffs. CSK now have two wins in 10 matches and are on the backside of the factors desk. CSK have additionally misplaced 5 matches at house in a season for the primary time of their historical past. That they had misplaced 4 video games out of 5 at Chepauk earlier than and the loss towards PBKS is their fifth at their fortress Chepuak, which has been breached once more.
CSK had a very good present with the bat as they put up 190/10 in 19.2 overs on the again of Sam Curran and Dewald Brevis. The 2 international gamers put up a very good present within the center with a 78-run stand for the fourth wicket. Curran starred along with his 88 from 47 balls as he unleashed some breathtaking strokes. Brevis performed a good second fiddle along with his 32 from 26. Nevertheless, the most important spotlight of the primary innings was Yuzvendra Chahal‘s hat-trick within the nineteenth over.
Chahal took 4 wickets within the penultimate over to ship CSK down from 177/5 after 18 overs to 186/9 after 19. He took Dhoni’s wicket on the second ball earlier than getting a hat-trick on the fourth, fifth and sixth supply. Chahal eliminated Deepak Hooda, Anshul Kamboj and Noor Ahmad to finish his hat-trick.
Prabhsimran and Shreyas managed the chase fairly effectively. Whereas Priyansh Arya departed after a short fantastic begin, Prabhsimran upped the ante and took the bowlers on. He stored the scoreboard ticking and scored boundaries at will. Prabhsimran had a very good affiliation with Shreyas, who marshalled the chase after the younger opener was dismissed.
There was a little bit of drama within the last over when two runs had been wanted as PBKS misplaced Suryansh Shedge, nonetheless, they crossed the road with two balls to go. With this, CSK bought knocked out of the match and misplaced 5 consecutive video games at Chepauk for the primary time.