IPL 2025: The eighth match of IPL 2025 was played between Chennai Super Kings and Royal Challengers Bangalore at the MA Chidambaram Stadium. In which Royal Challengers Bangalore defeated Chennai Super Kings by 50 runs. In this match, Bangalore, batting first, scored 196 runs at the loss of 7 wickets in 20 overs, in response to which Chennai’s team could only manage 146 runs at the loss of 8 wickets in 20 overs. This is Chennai’s first defeat in IPL 2025, before it won by 4 wickets against Mumbai Indians. This is the first time since 2008 when Bengaluru defeated Chennai at Chepak Stadium.
Bangalore of Bangalore 17 years later Victory
The Chepak Stadium is the home ground of Chennai Super Kings and this is where Bengaluru last defeated Chennai in 2008. In that match, Bengaluru defeated Chennai by 14 runs. After this, both teams came face to face with 8 times at Chepak Maidan, in which Chennai Super Kings won each time. Now, Bengaluru has finally ended the process of its 8 -match defeat against Chennai at Chepak Stadium and has become possible under the captaincy of Silver Patidar.
Bengaluru’s second consecutive win
This is Royal Challengers Bangalore’s second consecutive win in IPL 2025. Earlier, Bengaluru defeated Kolkata Knight Riders by 7 wickets in their first match of the tournament. With this victory, Royal Challengers Bangalore have secured their first position in the points table. RCB is now at the top of the table by winning both matches.
The bowlers of Chennai were not useful.
The foundation of the defeat of Chennai Super Kings was laid when the team’s spin bowlers proved to be quite expensive while bowling. On one hand, Ravichandran Ashwin conceded 22 runs in 2 overs. Ravindra Jadeja gave 37 runs in 3 overs and could not take any wickets. Noor Ahmed took 3 wickets, but also gave runs at an economy rate of 9.
Dhoni’s explosive batting graph has gone down.
Rachin Ravindra of Chennai team scored 41 runs, MS Dhoni scored 30 and Ravindra Jadeja scored 25 runs. Apart from this, no player could score more than 20 runs. At the same time, Rajat Patidar of the Bengaluru team scored the highest 51 runs, Phil Salat 32, Virat Kohli 31, Devdutt Padikkal 27 and Tim David scored 22 runs.
Playing of both teams 11
Chennai Super Kings Playing XI: Rituraj Gaikwad (captain), Rachin Ravindra, Rahul Tripathi, Deepak Hooda, Shivam Dubey, Ravindra Jadeja, Sam Curren, MS Dhoni (wicketkeeper), Ravichandran Ashwin, Noor Ahmed, Khalil Ahmed and Mathish Pathirana.
Royal Challengers Bangalore’s playing XI: Rajat Patidar (captain), Phil Salat, Virat Kohli, Liam Livingston, Jitesh Sharma (wicketkeeper), Tim David, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Suyash Sharma, Josh Hazlewood, Yash Dayal.
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