MS Dhoni set a big record, leaving Suresh Raina behind despite CSK’s loss.

Chennai Super Kings suffered an embarrassing defeat by 50 runs to Royal Challengers Bangalore in the 8th match of IPL 2025. Let me tell you, after 17 years, Chennai has been defeated by RCB on their homeground chepock. In the match against Bengaluru, CSK was seen flop in all three deposits.

In this match, MS Dhoni was sent to bat on number-9, the decision is being criticized a lot. He played an unbeaten innings of 30 runs in 16 balls, but could not win the team.

However, during this innings, the former CSK captain has made a big record in his name. Dhoni has become the batsman to score the most runs for Chennai Super Kings, Dhoni Suresh Raina.

MS Dhoni became the highest run scorer for CSK

MS Dhoni has scored 4699 runs in 204 innings for Chennai Super Kings in IPL. He has scored a magnificent average of 40.50 for CSK, and a strike rate of 139.43, including 22 half -centuries. With this, he has become the highest run -scorer for the franchise. This record was earlier in the name of Suresh Raina, who made 4687 in 171 innings.

List of top-5 batsmen scoring the most runs for CSK-

4695 – MS Dhoni (204 innings)
4687 – Suresh Raina (171 innings)
2721 – Faf du Plessis (86 innings)
2433 – Ruturaj Gaikwad (67 innings)
1939 – Ravindra Jadeja (127 innings)

Talking about the match played between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Chennai Super Kings, RCB batted first and put 196 runs on the board. Rajat Patidar played a brilliant innings of 51 runs in 32 balls. Chennai’s team chased the target, losing 8 wickets in 20 overs, scoring 146 runs and Bengaluru won by 50 runs. For RCB, Josh Hazlewood took the most three wickets for 21 runs in 4 overs.