IPL 2025: Rajasthan Royals vs Chennai Super Kings Match Preview, IPL 2025

11th T20 • Barsapara Cricket Stadium • Guwahati

Rajasthan Royals

182/9 (20)

Chennai Super Kings

176/6 (20)

RR won by 6 runs

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Date & Time

30 Mar, 07:30 PM IST

Venue

Barsapara Cricket Stadium, Guwahati

TV/Streaming

JioHotstar, Star Sports Network

Match

11th T20,

Indian T20 League 2025

Points Table

Schedule

Stats

Umpires

Adrian Holdstock (South Africa), Akshay Totre (India), Rohan Pandit (India, TV)

Referee

Shakti Singh (India)

Toss

Chennai Super Kings elected to bowl

Pitch Report

First time CSK takes on RR at the venue. This is a different pitch in comparison to the KKR game. Batters will be looking behind the stumps as it will be 60 meters or less. It is a little bit dry, nice, and compact with a bit of sheen. The middle overs will be critical for the batting team. The average score in the last 4-5 years is 162, so something above that will be enough to restrict the chasing side. Not going to be a 200 wicket, but a good contest can be expected

1st Innings

147Avg Runs

6Avg Wkts

122.11Avg SR

2nd Innings

132Avg Runs

6Avg Wkts

120.55Avg SR

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Points Table

Head To Head (Last 10 Matches)

6- 4

CSK

Team Form (Recent 5 Matches, Latest First)

Rajasthan Royals

Chennai Super Kings

Players to Watch

Top Batters

Rachin Ravindra

CSK . BAT

106 Runs

2 Matches

Dhruv Jurel

RR . WK

103 Runs

2 Matches

Sanju Samson

RR . WK

79 Runs

2 Matches

Top Bowlers

Noor Ahmad

CSK . BOWL

7 Wkts

2 Matches

Syed Khaleel Ahmed

CSK . BOWL

4 Wkts

2 Matches

Tushar Deshpande

RR . BOWL

3 Wkts

2 Matches

Player of the Match Nitish Rana

81(36)

Lucky Winner Puli Shivateja

CSK

Info

Rajasthan Royals

182/9 (20)

Batters

Yashasvi Jaiswal

133.33

c Ashwin b Ahmed

Sanju Samson

125.00

c Ravindra b Ahmad

Nitish Rana

225.00

st Dhoni b Ashwin

Riyan Parag

132.14

b Pathirana

Dhruv Jurel

42.86

c Pathirana b Ahmad

Wanindu Hasaranga

80.00

c Shankar b Jadeja

Shimron Hetmyer

118.75

c Ashwin b Pathirana

Jofra Archer

0.00

c Gaikwad b Ahmed

Kumar Kartikeya Singh

100.00

runout (Ahmed)

Maheesh Theekshana

50.00

Not out

Tushar Deshpande

50.00

Not out

Extras

(B: 2, LB: 0, NB: 0, W: 8)

TOTAL

(20 Ov, RR: 9.1)

182/9

Did not Bat

Sandeep Sharma

Bowlers

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Syed Khaleel Ahmed

9.50

Jamie Overton

15.00

Ravichandran Ashwin

11.50

Noor Ahmad

7.00

Matheesha Pathirana

7.00

Ravindra Jadeja

5.00

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Yashasvi Jaiswal

c Ashwin b Ahmed

1-4

0.3

Sanju Samson

c Ravindra b Ahmad

2-86

7.3

Nitish Rana

st Dhoni b Ashwin

3-124

11.3

Dhruv Jurel

c Pathirana b Ahmad

4-134

13.1

Wanindu Hasaranga

c Shankar b Jadeja

5-140

14.1

Riyan Parag

b Pathirana

6-166

17.5

Jofra Archer

c Gaikwad b Ahmed

7-174

18.3

Kumar Kartikeya Singh

runout (Ahmed)

8-175

18.5

Shimron Hetmyer

c Ashwin b Pathirana

9-176

19.1

Chennai Super Kings

176/6 (20)

Batters

Rachin Ravindra

0.00

c Jurel b Archer

Rahul Tripathi

121.05

c Hetmyer b Hasaranga

Ruturaj Gaikwad

143.18

c Jaiswal b Hasaranga

Shivam Dube

180.00

c Parag b Hasaranga

Vijay Shankar

150.00

b Hasaranga

Ravindra Jadeja

145.45

Not out

MS Dhoni

145.45

c Hetmyer b Sharma

Jamie Overton

275.00

Not out

Extras

(B: 0, LB: 1, NB: 0, W: 3)

TOTAL

(20 Ov, RR: 8.8)

176/6

Did not Bat

Ravichandran Ashwin, Noor Ahmad, Syed Khaleel Ahmed

Bowlers

EXT

Jofra Archer

4.33

Tushar Deshpande

11.25

Sandeep Sharma

10.50

Maheesh Theekshana

7.50

Wanindu Hasaranga

8.75

Kumar Kartikeya Singh

10.00

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Rachin Ravindra

c Jurel b Archer

1-0

0.4

Rahul Tripathi

c Hetmyer b Hasaranga

2-46

7.1

Shivam Dube

c Parag b Hasaranga

3-72

9.3

Vijay Shankar

b Hasaranga

4-92

11.5

Ruturaj Gaikwad

c Jaiswal b Hasaranga

5-129

15.5

MS Dhoni

c Hetmyer b Sharma

6-164

19.1

Match Info

Date & Time

30 Mar, 07:30 PM IST

Venue

Barsapara Cricket Stadium, Guwahati

TV/Streaming

JioHotstar, Star Sports Network

Match

11th T20,

Indian T20 League 2025

Points Table

Schedule

Stats

Umpires

Adrian Holdstock (South Africa), Akshay Totre (India), Rohan Pandit (India, TV)

Referee

Shakti Singh (India)

Toss

Chennai Super Kings elected to bowl

4 1 1 1 1 1

Over 17

Runs: 9

2 1 1 1 0 1

Over 18

Runs: 6

4 1 1 6 1 6

Over 19

Runs: 19

1wd W 1 1 6 2 2

Over 20

Runs: 13

All Overs

Player of the Match Nitish Rana

81(36)

Lucky Winner Puli Shivateja

Commentary

A first win for the Rajasthan Royals, which makes the Mumbai Indians the only side without a win in the league stages so far. They take on Kolkata Knight Riders tomorrow, and you can follow the ball by ball feed starting 6:30 pm on Sportskeeda. This is Lavil Saldanha, signing off on behalf of Soorya Sesha and Arya Chakraborty. We hope you enjoyed our coverage, and join us sometime soon. SEE YA!

Nitish Rana (Player of the Match, Rajasthan Royals): I was thinking of maximising the powerplay, as the ball turned after getting slower. Planned on playing the field and not the bowler or the ball. I know I could use the pace. I analysed my batting in the last two games and saw that I was hitting it too hard. This time, I ensured that I placed the ball. The coaches told me to bat at three, it was a tactical move as I was hitting the ball too hard at number 4. The chat with the coaches was to bat for as long as possible. (On him being fixed at number three) Will have to ask Rahul, sir (laughs)

Riyan Parag (captain, Rajasthan Royals): Feels good; took a lot of time. It was only two games, but it felt too long. Felt it was 20 short. I thought we would build up from the 16th over, but we bowled very well. That was the chat - forget the two games and collectively put in the effort. Luckily, I had 7 options, including myself and Rana, and I went with my gut feeling, and it went well. Fielding makes up for the 20 runs we were short. We have been working with the fielding coach, and it paid off

Jofra Archer gets a sapling for bowling the most dot balls in the match (13)

Nitish Rana wins the On-The-Go-4s of the Match Award

Nitish Rana wins the Super Sixes of the Match Award

Nitish Rana wins the Fantasy King of the Match Award

Nitish Rana wins the Super Striker of the Match Award

11:45 pm local time and IST: Time now for the post match presentation ceremony for the match

Wanindu Hasaranga (Rajasthan Royals): I tried to do my basics. I tried to bowl at the stumps and at the end I tried to bowl wide. Our batters batted really well in the first innings so we saw how the wicket was behaving. I tried to do the basic things. (Most challenging to bowl to?) Ruturaj Gaikwad I guess because he's a really good player. He plays spin well, he batted really well. Happy that I got him out. The skipper Riyan Parag took a brilliant catch. Hettie was also gun in the field. (On his celebration) In India I love to watch Telugu, Malayalam and Tamil films so I got that from 'Pushpa'. We have a really good bowling attack, especially in the middle, myself and Maheesh. We have different roles to play. We have really good fast-bowlers with the new ball and the death - Jofra, Tushar, Sandeep, they all did really well today. Me and Maheesh have to play different roles, especially Maheesh - sometimes with the new ball and sometimes in the middle.

Ruturaj Gaikwad (Chennai Super Kings captain): Obviously in the powerplay, Nitish batted really well. At the same time we were not proactive knowing that he was going behind square towards the boundary. At the end of the day, it was always about one hit. We gave away maybe 8-10 in the field. That's something we're looking to improve but it's costing us in each and every game. I feel 180 was chaseable. It was still a good wicket if you hit the pockets and time the ball really well. I was really happy at the end of the innings when they finished on 180 (182). After the powerplay they were looking at 210-220 which would have been 20 runs above par but I think 180 was chaseable. Over the years we had Ajinkya batting at 3 and Rayudu taking care of the middle-order. We thought it is better if I come back one step. Rahul Tripathi is known for playing an aggressive role and he can play himself up. That was the thought process. But it's not been much of a difference - I'm getting to bat in the first two or three overs in the first three games (grins). No discussions have happened about me batting at 3. It was discussed at the auction time and I'm convinced about it. I can take risks and rotate strike when needed - that's what you need from a number 3 or 4 batter when you have Shivam who can take risks. Unfortunately we have not been able to get off to a good start but once we get that going, we'll be a really good batting unit. Long flight, not happy to be taking a three-hour flight but lots of positives. Noor obviously is bowling well, Khaleel has bowled well, Jaddu bhai bowled well. I think we're there - it's just not coming together. We need to build pressure. It's not been happening in the last few games but once the fielding comes together and we have momentum we'll be a really good side.

11:30 pm local time and IST: Rajasthan Royals beat Chennai Super Kings by 6 wickets

Chennai Super Kings: 176/6 in 20 overs

Ruturaj Gaikwad: 63(44b) | Wanindu Hasaranga: 4/35 (4 overs)
Ravindra Jadeja: 32(22b) | Jofra Archer: 1/13 (3 overs)

What an absolute thriller we have been treated to! Riyan Parag registers his first win as the captain of the Rajasthan Royals after two tough outings. For CSK, their inability to chase down scores in excess of 180 since 2019 continues to haunt them, costing them another game. A fine effort from them, but alas they fall short.

CSK needed to replicate the sort of powerplay Rajasthan, and to some extent, they were able to replicate after losing Rachin Ravindra in the first over. No initiative was taken by either Rahul Tripathi or Ruturaj Gaikwad as they stayed dormant and failed to take the bowling down. Post the powerplay, Tripathi lost his wicket, but Gaikwad freed his arms and went on and about to attack.

With Gaikwad going great guns and Shivam Dube also having done a fine job at his arrival to the crease in the middle, it looked like CSK would ace the chase. However, they lost wickets in the middle overs and at regular intervals. Hope was still alive, with MS Dhoni walking out to bat as early as number 7 and also getting a few hits out of the middle of the bat. That was countered by Sandeep Sharma, who bowled a brilliant last over and sealed the game for the Rajasthan Royals.

The Rajasthan Royals' bowling attack did a fine job here, and that set them up for a good target defense. Jofra Archer did a fine job, bowling a wicket maiden and conceding only 13 runs in the three overs he sent down today. Sandeep Sharma, who bowled a fine last over, conceded 42 runs but picked up the all-important wicket of MS Dhoni in the last over. The star with the ball, Wanindu Hasaranga, picked up four wickets and, most importantly, pocketed Ruturaj Gaikwad when the CSK skipper was on song.

Let's now go down to see what the presentation ceremony holds in store for us.

overs

176 /6 score

1wd

runs

Jamie Overton *

11 (4)

Ravindra Jadeja

32 (22)

Sandeep Sharma

1 /42

19.6 Sandeep Sharma to Jamie Overton, Sandeep denies CSK yet again to get two points for the Royals! He did this in 2023 at Chepauk and now, he has held his nerve in Guwahati to arrest a two-game losing run for the Royals. Back of a length with pace off outside the off stump. Overton can only drag it in front of square on the leg-side and into the deep for a couple of runs. So near yet so far as CSK succumb to their second straight defeat in three days. Rajasthan Royals prevail by 6 runs!

9 runs are needed off the last delivery. Not a no ball, not a wide. Sandeep Sharma has it firmly in RR's grasp, that is unless he makes an error

19.5 Sandeep Sharma to Jamie Overton, slower one bowled into the pitch outside the off stump. Overton swats a pull wristily behind square as it drops into the deep. Just a couple of runs and barring a no ball or a wide, the Royals will get on the board tonight!

Two more sixes are needed off Overton's willow. Can he launch them out of the park or will Sandeep get that one good delivery needed for Rajasthan to win?

19.4 Sandeep Sharma to Jamie Overton, SIX! SLAMMED! Not too bad delivery as Sandeep goes for the yorker at the stumps. Overton stays deep enough in the crease to get under it as he launches it dead straight over the bowler's head for a huge six

19.3 Sandeep Sharma to Ravindra Jadeja, JUST A SINGLE! Nails the wide yorker as Jadeja drills it down the ground and straight of long off. Overton, for some reason, turns down the second! That's interesting!

18 runs are needed in four deliveries. Jadeja once pulled victory from the jaws of defeat for the Men in Yellow. Can he do it again?

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