CSK vs PBKS IPL 2025 Live Rating: Hello and a really warm welcome to News18 CricketNext’s live coverage of Match 49 within the 2025 Indian Premier League between among the finest captains in tournament history, MS Dhoni’s Chennai Super Kings, and some of the promising leaders, Shreyas Iyer’s Punjab Kings. PBKS won the toss and elected to bowl first.
The equation is easy: if CSK lose this game, they’re out of the competition. The utmost variety of points they’d have the opportunity to build up after that will be 12, which won’t be enough to qualify for the highest 4.
Even in the event that they win, they’ll only be doing enough to survive. And considering how Dhoni and coach Stephen Fleming have been speaking about already attempting to construct for the longer term, that’s the perfect thing they’ll hope to take from this game: test out exciting talent like Sheikh Rasheed, Andre Siddharth and even perhaps bowlers like Kamlesh Nagarkoti.
That presents a possibility for PBKS to shed some inconsistency with a ruthless win over a struggling side. They need six points from their remaining five matches and would want to start out constructing momentum from Chennai.
Can Dhoni put up a captaincy masterclass to win against the chances or will Shreyas have the opportunity to shed off the historical troubles of his team and go on a run? A giant match awaits us!
Chennai Super Kings vs Punjab Kings Playing XIs
Chennai Super Kings 11: Ayush Mhatre, Shaik Rasheed, Sam Curran, Ravindra Jadeja, Dewald Brevis, Shivam Dube, Deepak Hooda, MS Dhoni (C/WK), Noor Ahmad, Khaleel Ahmed, Matheesha Pathirana.
Impact Subs: Anshul Kamboj, Ravichandran Ashwin, Jamie Overton, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Ramakrishna Ghosh.
Punjab Kings 11: Priyansh Arya, Josh Inglis (WK), Shreyas Iyer (C), Nehal Wadhera, Shashank Singh, Harpreet Brar, Marco Jansen, Azmatullah Omarzai, Suryansh Shedge, Yuzvendra Chahal, Arshdeep Singh
Impact Subs: Prabhsimran Singh, Xavier Bartlett, Praveen Dubey, Musheer Khan, Vyshak Vijaykumar
