IPL 2025 Match-25 : Chennai vs Kolkata pre-match views
IPLT20 2025 25th Match between Chennai Super Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders will be played on Friday, April 11, 2025 at MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai 7:00 pm onwards.
Five time IPL title winner 2010, 2011, 2018, 2021 and 2023 in a History of Indian Premier League, Chennai Super Kings is one of the most popular team in IPL. Formerly, Lead by one of the most successful Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni ("Captain Cool"), Chennai is having very balanced team through-out the past IPL tournaments. For 2025 IPL season 18, Super Kings have superb batting line-up like: Ruturaj Gaikwad, Devon Conway and MS Dhoni himself. Chennai also have excellent all-rounders like: Ravichandran Ashwin, RA Jadeja, Shivam Dube, Rahul Tripathi, Deepak Hooda, Rachin Ravindra, Vijay Shankar and Sam Curran. Pace attack will be handled by Matheesha Pathirana, Jamie Overton, Nathan Ellis, Noor Ahmed, Shreyas Gopal and Mukesh Choudhary. Over-all CSK is well balanced team for IPL 2025.
Having well balanced team, Kolkata Knight Riders has won 3 times IPL title in 2012, 2014 and 2024 as well. Kolkata will try win this match. Knight Riders has good batsmen like : Rinku Singh, skipper AM Rahane, Manish Pandey, Q de Kock and good bowlers like : Anrich Nortje, Sunil Narine, Varun Chakrawathy, Harshit Rana, Mayank Markande and Umran Malik along with good all-rounders like : Andre Russell, Moeen Ali, Venkatesh Iyer and Ramandeep Singh with good Indian capped and un-capped players to make best eleven to play.
| Head to Head | |
| Played : 29 | |
| Chennai Won | Kolkata won |
| 19 | 10 |
Most successful IPL team, Chennai Super Kings still have MS Dhoni in their squad. Skipper Ruturaj Gaikwad, Devon Conway, Rachin Ravindra, Vijay Shankar, Shivam Dube and Sam Curran will have batting responsibilities. R Ashwin, RA Jadeja, Matheesha Pathirana, Jamie Overton and Mukesh Choudhary have to take command in bowling department as well for leading contender for finale race of IPL 2025.
Rinku Singh's winning knock against Gujarat's Yash Dayal with five massive sixes in last over is un-forgettable. We have also witnessed AD Russell's power with big six hittings for Kolkata Knight Riders in previous seasons. Top order Q de Kock, Venkatesh Iyer and skipper AM Rahane provides better batting line-up to KKR. World Class Sunil Narine with Varun Chakrawathy and Moeen Ali gives Kolkata huge strength in spin attack. Pace transforming bowlers Harshit Rana, Umran Malik and Anrich Nortje will raise power to Knight Riders for attacking attitude to hold IPL trophy once again in 2025 as well.
Looking at previous match data, Chennai won 19 matches and Kolkata won 10 matches out of 29 matches played in IPL history. Chennai holds good records against Kolkata in past statistics. Chennai has home ground advantage to do well in this match. Just a finger cross and enjoy Chennai vs Kolkata match on match day. Team that perform better than opponent team will win and earn important 2 points in points tally of IPLT20 2025.
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