Chennai Super Kings Vs Punjab Kings Highlights, IPL 2025: PBKS Knock CSK Out Of Playoffs Race With Four-Wicket Win

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The match will begin at 7:30pm IST. The Indian Premier League 2025 clash between Chennai Super Kings and Punjab Kings will be live streamed on the JioHotstar app and website in India. It will be telecast on the Star Sports Network TV channels in the country.

Punjab Kings have won the toss and elected to bowl first against Chennai Super Kings at the latter's home ground, the Chepauk stadium.

Playing XIs

Chennai Super Kings: Shaik Rasheed, Ayush Mhatre, Sam Curran, Ravindra Jadeja, Dewald Brevis, Shivam Dube, Deepak Hooda, MS Dhoni (c/wk), Noor Ahmad, Khaleel Ahmed, Matheesha Pathirana

Impact Players list: Anshul Kamboj, R Ashwin, Jamie Overton, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Ramakrishna Ghosh

Punjab Kings: Priyansh Arya, Shreyas Iyer (c), Nehal Wadhera, Shashank Singh, Josh Inglis (wk), Marco Jansen, Suryansh Shedge, Azmatullah Omarzai, Harpreet Brar, Yuzvendra Chahal, Arshdeep Singh

Impact Players list: Prabhsimran Singh, Xavier Bartlett, Pravin Dubey, Musheer Khan, Vijaykumar Vyshak

Arshdeep Singh has the ball in hand for Punjab Kings. The India left-arm seamer has uncapped Indian openers Shaik Rasheed and Ayush Mhatre to contend with. Arshdeep begins well, producing a disciplined first over with just three runs off it despite a wide.

CSK: 3/0 (1 over)

After a quiet couple of overs, Chennai Super Kings' openers Shaik Rasheed and Ayush Mhatre break the shackles and get some boundaries going. But both are dismissed soon after, and Ravindra Jadeja too falls towards the end of the powerplay. Sam Curran and Dewald Brevis are now at the crease, looking to rebuild.

CSK: 55/3 (7 overs)

The hosts have bounced back well with the bat, as Sam Curran and Dewald Brevis stitch together a dangerous partnership. After a circumspect start, both batters have cut loose and are finding the fence with regularity. As a result, CSK's run rate has swelled well above 9 an over and they are eyeing a 200-plus total now.

CSK: 114/3 (12.3 overs)

Azmatullah Omarzai cleans up Dewald Brevis to break his 78-run partnership with Sam Curran. But the English southpaw continues unfettered, and is now batting in the 80s with the explosive Shivam Dube joining him. The duo is surely aiming at setting a 200-plus target for Punjab Kings.

CSK: 160/4 (16.1 overs)

An utterly dramatic end to the CSK innings. MS Dhoni smacks Yuzvendra Chahal for a six, and the leggie responds with his wicket and three more off successive deliveries later in the over. The out-of-favour India spinner completes his second hat-trick in Indian Premier League as Chennai lose six wickets in 11 balls to be dismissed for 190 runs in 19.2 overs.

CSK: 190 all out (19.2 overs)

An elongated CSK innings, exacerbated by Punjab Kings' poor over-rate means there is barely any breathing space after Yuzvendra Chahal's hat-trick. Priyansh Arya and Prabhisimran Singh are out to open for the visitors and off to a strong start, rattling off 17 runs in the first two overs.

PBKS: 17/0 (2 overs)

Priyansh Arya smacks a 15-ball 23 but has to go after nicking off to Khaleel Ahmed. Punjab skipper Shreyas Iyer joins Prabhsimran Singh in the middle, and gets busy immediately. The visitors are maintaining a run rate in the vicinity of nine per over, which means the asking rate hasn't slid beyond manageable proportions.

PBKS: 80/1 (8.5 overs) 

Prabhsimran Singh gets to his fifty off 31 balls for a second consecutive half-century, but is dismissed soon after by Noor Ahmad. Shreyas Iyer, meanwhile, gets to a fifty of his own and is unbeaten with Nehal Wadhera joining him at the other end. PBKS now need 60 from six overs.

PBKS: 131/2 (14 overs)

What an end to the game! After getting to the doorstep, Punjab stumble, losing Shreyas Iyer and Suryansh Shedge in quick succession. But a french cut to the boundary off Marco Jansen's bat seals the deal for the visitors. And with that, CSK are officially eliminated from the playoffs race.

Here's what Chennai Super Kings skipper MS Dhoni said after his team lost the match and bowed out of playoffs reckoning:

"It was the first time we put enough runs on the board, but I feel it was slightly short of a par score. It's demanding on the batsmen but we needed slightly more. The partnership between (Sam) Curran and (Dewald) Brevis was fantastic.

"I think we need to take our catches. Curran is a fighter, we all know. Unfortunately whenever we have tried to give him a chance so far, it was a slow wicket but today's wicket was the best one we had at home this season.

"(On Brevis' knock) I think it's momentum in the middle order and he's a very good fielder and he has good power so he can hit good balls for boundaries. He brings energy in the field too. We needed that fresh air, someone not caught up in the spiral. He can be an asset going forward."