Delhi Capitals continue to perform well in IPL 2025, while on the other hand, a 5 -time champion Chennai Super Kings continue to be a bad round. In the 17th match played on Saturday 5 April at Chennai's Chepock Stadium, Delhi Capitals defeated Chennai Super Kings by 25 runs. Along with this, Delhi finished first in the points table by putting a hat -trick of victory this season. At the same time, Chennai has suffered a third consecutive defeat. This match was also special because for the first time Dhoni's parents came to the stadium to see him but Dhoni could not finish the match for the team in front of him. With this, Delhi defeated Chennai for the first time in Chepock after 15 years.

In this match played in Chepock, Delhi Capitals batted first and scored 183 runs in 20 overs. For Delhi, his new star KL Rahul had to descend to opening this time because Faf was out due to duplesi injury. Rahul took advantage of this opportunity and hit a great half -century in difficult circumstances. He played an important innings of 77 runs in just 51 balls. Apart from him, Abhishek Porel scored 33 runs fast, while Triston Stabs, Captain Akshar Patel and Sameer Rizvi also contributed significantly.

Given the record of the last 6 years of Chennai, this goal looked difficult. Since 2019, Chennai has not achieved a target of more than 180 runs in the IPL. This series continued this time too. The team started bad once again in the powerplay and the new opening pair could not do anything amazing. For only 6 overs, the team had lost 3 wickets, which was 5 wickets by the 11th over, while the score was just 74 runs. Every batsman from Chennai continued to struggle for the run and the biggest sight of Dhoni and Vijay Shankar was in partnership.

Vijay Shankar, who came to the crease in the third over, was seen struggling for runs from the first ball and despite his best efforts, he did not get big shots from his bat. During this, he also got a life of life 3 times. Then MS Dhoni's entry in the 11th over, which the fans were demanding for a long time that they should come for quick batting. But these two batsmen could not get the team necessary pace together. The fans hoped that Dhoni would show the match in front of his parents, but this could not happen and Chennai's team could score 158 runs after losing 5 wickets in 20 overs. Dhoni and Shankar shared an 84 -run partnership but spent 57 balls for this, which was not enough to win.