More than a quarter of the IPL 2025 season has been completed and after the last few unilateral matches, now exciting matches are being seen. Tuesday 8 April was the 18th day of the tournament and 2 matches were played on this day. After these matches, there was a slight change in the places in the points table but half of the 10 teams have reached 6-6 points. However, despite these matches, there has been no change in the top-3 and there are still Delhi Capitals in the first place, which have won all their 3 matches.

The first match on Tuesday was played between Kolkata Knight Riders and Lucknow Super Giants.

The match was played at Eden Gardens and was very exciting. Lucknow batting first and scored a huge score of 238 runs. In response, Kolkata reached 234 runs and lost by 4 runs. At the same time, Punjab Kings scored 219 runs in Mullanpur, on the basis of Priyansh Arya's record century in the second match. In response, Chennai Super Kings could score 201 runs and lost by 18 runs. This was the third win of Punjab, while Chennai was the fourth consecutive defeat.

6-6 points of every team in Top-5

These results affected the part of the points table itself.

After the first match, Lucknow Super Kings, who were at number five, were 6 points from 5 matches and the team reached number four. But after the next match was over, Punjab once again secured their fourth position. Punjab has 6 points from 4 matches. In this way, all the teams have got 6-6 points from beforehand to the fifth place. There is a difference of places in them only due to the difference of net runrate. Delhi ranks first with Net Runteen of 1.257. On the other hand, Gujarat Titans (1.031) and Royal Challengers Bangalore (1.015) on the third. Punjab (0.289) and Lucknow (0.078) are the next 2 teams.

There was no change even in lower-5

As far as the next 5 teams are concerned, there has been no change in their situation. Kolkata and Rajasthan still have 4-4 points. But Kolkata is sixth and Rajasthan is ranked seventh due to better net runrate. There was no change in the last 3 places. At eighth place is Mumbai Indians, Chennai Super Kings on ninth and Sunrisers Hyderabad at the last position. These three teams have only 2-2 points in their account. Incidentally, these three teams have also played 5-5 matches and have lost four matches each.