RR vs CSK: Rajasthan Royals clinched thrilling win in final over, beat CSK by 6 runs

The 11th match of IPL 2025 was played between Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals in Guwahati. Where Rajasthan won an exciting victory by 6 runs. Batting first, RR scored 182 runs thanks to Nitish Rana’s half -century innings. In response, the Chennai team could score 176 runs after losing 6 wickets after playing the entire over. CSK captain Ruturaj Gaikwad scored 63 runs, but it was not enough to win. With this, the Rajasthan franchise has opened its account of victory in the tournament.

Rajasthan scored 182 runs

Earlier in the match, Chennai Super Kings won the toss and invited Rajasthan to bat first. His decision also proved to be correct and Khalil Ahmed showed Yashasvi Jaiswal (4) on the third ball of the match. However, after this, Nitish Rana, who came to bat at number three, batted aggressively. He added 82 runs for the second wicket with Sanju Samson (20).

After 10 overs, Rajasthan’s score was 99/2 and RR was moving towards a big score, but Ravichandran Ashwin gave a big relief to CSK by taking the wicket of Nitish Rana in his last over. Left -handed batsman Rana scored 81 off 36 balls before being dismissed. At the same time, Ryan Parag, while scoring runs fast, contributed 37 runs in 28 balls.

Mathisha Pathirana and Noor Ahmed bowled tightly in the middle overs, as a result of which the middle order of Rajasthan could not do anything special except Hetmyer (19). Rajasthan scored 182 runs at the loss of 9 wickets after batting 20 overs. Khalil Ahmed, Noor Ahmed and Mathisha Pathirana took 2-2 wickets from CSK. While R Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja got 1-1 wickets.

Chennai Super Kings lost by 6 runs

Chennai Super Kings, chasing the target of 183 runs received by Rajasthan, got the first blow as Rachin Ravindra in the first over. He was a victim of Jofra Archer without opening an account. After this, Rahul Tripathi also scored only 23 runs. Shivam Dubey made some big hits, but he too could score only 18 runs. Vijay Shankar scored 9 runs. Captain Gaikwad remained frozen from one end, while CSK lost wickets at regular intervals from the other end.

This affected the over rate and it continued to grow. Captain Gaikwad was dismissed in an attempt to play a big shot under rising run rate. He scored 63 runs with the help of 7 fours and a six. MS Dhoni (16) and Ravindra Jadeja (32*) tried their best to win the team, but they did not go in front of Rajasthan’s best bowling and lost by 6 runs. Jamie Overton returned unbeaten after scoring 11 runs.

Vanindu Hasranga bowled amazing for Rajasthan. He took four wickets for 35 runs in four overs. Apart from this, Jofra Archer and Sandeep Sharma got 1-1 wickets.