Samira Vishwas
Tezzbuzz|08-05-2025
Chennai Super Kings registered their third victory in the IPL 2025 season against Kolkata Knight Riders on May 07 at Eden Gardens.
They secured a 2-wicket win after an impressive display from youngsters Urvil Patel and Dewald Brevis. With this defeat, Kolkata are on the verge of getting knocked out of the tournament as they heavily rely on the other games’ results.
Batting first, Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Sunil Narine opened KKR’s batting attack while Khaleel Ahmad opened the bowling attack.
Kamboj got the first breakthrough after dismissing Gurbaz for 11 runs. Ajinkya Rahane and Sunil Narine added 67 runs to the total in the powerplay.
Noor Ahmad delivered a magical over dismissing Angkrish Raghuvanshi and Sunil Narine in the 8th over of the match.
Jadeja brought a crucial breakthrough bagging the wicket of Rahane for 48. However, Andre Russell went on to aggressive scoring 38 runs off 21 deliveries which included 4 fours and 3 sixes.
But Noor Ahmad bagged his wicket in the 17th over with Dewald Brevis picking the catch which made Rinku Singh Walk into the ground to finish the innings. But CSK spinner went on to bag his wicket for 9 runs while Manish Pandey went on to score 36 runs of 28 deliveries.
By the end of 20 overs, Kolkata Knight Riders went on to score 179 runs for 6 wickets.
In the pursuit of chasing 180 runs, Devon Conway and Ayush Mhatre open the innings while Vaibhav Arora opens the bowling attack.
However, both openers were sent out on a duck with Arora dismissing Mhatre, while Conway was dismissed by Moeen Ali.
However, Urvil Patel created an impact scoring 31 runs off 11 deliveries. Harshit Rana dismissed Urvil Patel and Ashwin.
With the dismissal of Jadeja for 19 runs by Varun Chakravarthy, CSK lost five wickets for 60 runs.
However, Dewald Brevis made a solid contribution making a 30 runs in an over. He went on to slam 52 runs before being dismissed by Varun Chakravarthy in the 13th over.
MS Dhoni joined Dube taking the game deeply before the latter being dismissed by Vaibhav Arora for 45 runs.
Arora also bagged the wicket of Noor Ahmad for 2 runs, while MS Dhoni and Anshul Kamboj went on to complete the innings with two balls remaining to spare.
Vaibhav Arora went on to bag three wickets, while Harshit Rana and Varun Chakravarthy bagged two wickets each while Moeen Ali had a one wicket for Kolkata.