CSK vs DC: Dhoni and Shankar’s slow innings led to CSK’s loss

Delhi: The 17th match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 was played between Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and Delhi Capitals (DC) at MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai, in which the Delhi team won by 25 runs in a brilliant performance. In this match, Delhi Capital captain Akshar Patel won the toss and decided to bat first, which proved to be beneficial for the team.

Batting first, the guests scored 183 runs losing 6 wickets in the prescribed 20 overs. For the team, KL Rahul batted in excellent form and played an important innings of 77 runs, while young batsman Abhishek Porel made a useful contribution of 33 runs. Khalil Ahmed took the most 2 wickets in bowling for Chennai, while Ravindra Jadeja, Noor Ahmed and Mathisha Pathirana got 1-1 wickets.

The Chennai Super Kings team started chasing the target, but the Delhi bowlers did not give them a chance to play openly. On behalf of CSK, Vijay Shankar played a brilliant innings of 69 runs, but he could not reach the team to victory. Chennai scored 158 runs at the loss of 5 wickets in 20 overs. In bowling for Delhi, Vipraj Nigam played an important role in the team’s victory by taking 2 wickets.

Mahi’s magic did not show, the reason for the defeat became slow innings!

The fans hoped that Mahendra Singh Dhoni would bring a storm of runs in this match and would win his team against Delhi, but his slow batting became the cause of defeat for the team. The wicketkeeper batsman scored 30* runs in 26 balls, including 1 four and 1 six. Not only this, Vijay Shankar also scored a slow run. He scored 69* runs in 54 balls, including 5 fours and 1 six. Both shared a partnership of 84* runs in 58 balls. If these two batsmen had scored at a fast pace, the result of the match could have been something else.

Now the thing to see will be how the yellow jersey team performs in the upcoming matches. With this, Delhi completed its hat -trick of victory. Delhi was also successful in defeating CSK in Chennai after 15 years. This was Chennai’s third consecutive defeat in this session and the second defeat on the home ground. The pair of Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Vijay Shankar remained on the field till the end, so the Yellow Army expected the pair. However, both of them failed to win Chennai.

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