IPL 2025: Chennai Super Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders – Match Preview

Chennai Super Kings will lock horns against reigning champions Kolkata Knight in the 25th match of the ongoing IPL 2025 at the MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai on Friday. CSK has suffered a huge blow as Ruturaj Gaikwad has been ruled out of the rest of the season due to a fractured elbow and in his absence, MS Dhoni will return as the skipper.

CSK has managed a solitary win out of the five games they have played and the five-time champions have failed to click as a batting unit. The top-order has failed to deliver consistent performances and it has led to their downfall. Devon Conway scored 69 runs in the last game but could not score his runs at the required run rate and thus he was asked to retire out.

MS Dhoni did show glimpses of the old, scoring a fine cameo of 12-ball 27 and it would not be a bad idea if he decides to bat more freely as a leader.

On the other hand, KKR has had a mixed start as they have managed two wins in five games. The defending champions have continuously rejigged their batting order and they would look to sort it out against CSK.

Head to Head: Matches: 30, Won by CSK: 19, Won by KKR: 10, No result: 1

Kolkata Knight Riders Squad: Quinton de Kock(w), Sunil Narine, Ajinkya Rahane(c), Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Manish Pandey, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Harshit Rana, Spencer Johnson, Varun Chakaravarthy, Anrich Nortje, Vaibhav Arora, Anukul Roy, Luvnith Sisodia, Moeen Ali, Rovman Powell, Mayank Markande, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Chetan Sakariya

Chennai Super Kings Squad: Rachin Ravindra, Ruturaj Gaikwad(c), Rahul Tripathi, Deepak Hooda, Shivam Dube, Sam Curran, Ravindra Jadeja, MS Dhoni(w), Ravichandran Ashwin, Noor Ahmad, Nathan Ellis, Khaleel Ahmed, Vijay Shankar, Jamie Overton, Shreyas Gopal, Devon Conway, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Mukesh Choudhary, Anshul Kamboj, Matheesha Pathirana, Gurjapneet Singh, Shaik Rasheed, Ramakrishna Ghosh, Andre Siddarth C, Vansh Bedi