After RCB, the Delhi Capitals have now breached the CSK fortress by defeating Ruturaj Gaikwad and Co. in Chepauk Stadium after 15 years.

Delhi Capitals with their all-rounding performance, defeated CSK by 25 runs and registered their hattrick victory in the IPL 2025 season. This is their second instance to win their first three matches in a season after 2009.

In the CSK vs DC clash at Chepauk, Delhi Capitals won the toss and opted to bat first. In the absence of Faf du Plessis, KL Rahul and Fraser-McGurk opened the inning for Delhi Capitals while Khaleel Ahmed opened the bowling attack for CSK.

In the very first over, Khaleel Ahmed dismissed  Fraser-McGurk for duck and made an impressive start for CSK. But Abishek Porel and KL started to build a partnership and pushed DC to score 51 runs at the end of first powerplay.

While the duo started to dominate the CSK bowlers, Jadeja in the seventh over dismissed Porel for 33 runs and broke the partnership. Following the dismissal, Axar Patel started to dominate the spinners and made a crispy 14 balls 21 runs before being dismissed by Noor in the 11th over.

After the skipper’s dismissal, KL Rahul and Rizvi started to execute an aggressive game play and dragged DC to score 146 runs for three wickets at the end of 16 overs. During the process, KL Rahul registered his maiden IPL 2025 fifty in 33 deliveries.

With KL Rahul’s 77 runs off 51 deliveries, Delhi Capitals scored 183 runs for six wickets at the end of 20 overs.

On the other hand, CSK made a worst start. Opening batter Rachin Ravindra was dismissed for three runs in the second over while skipper Gaikwad was dismissed for five runs in the third over. Vipraj Nigam in the sixth over dismissed Conway for 13 runs and suppressed CSK to score only 46 runs at the end of the first powerplay.

While Shivam Dube and Vijay Shankar was expected to build a partnership, Vipraj Nigam in the second delivery of the 10th over, dismissed Dube for 18 runs and loaded pressure over the CSK batters. At the end of 10 overs, CSK scored 69 runs for four wickets.

In the very next over, Kuldeep Yadav dismissed Jadeja for two runs and turned things upside down for CSK. MS Dhoni and Shankar were expected to build a winning partnership but the Delhi Capitals bowlers continued to dominate the duo and restricted the runflow.

At the end of 20 overs, CSK scored 158 runs for five wickets loss and fell 25 runs short for the victory.