CSK suffered second consecutive defeat  (CSK )

IPL: The 11th match of IPL 2025 was played between Rajasthan Royals and Chennai Super Kings  (CSK ) at Barsapara Stadium in Guwahati. Rajasthan won this match by 6 runs. Batting first, Rajasthan Royals scored 182 runs for the loss of 9 wickets in 20 overs. In response, Chennai Super Kings team could only score 176 runs for the loss of 6 wickets in 20 overs. This is CSK’s second consecutive defeat this season. Earlier, CSK had to face defeat by 50 runs against Royal Challengers Bangalore.

RR vs CSK: Nitish Rana played a stormy innings

Rajasthan, who came to bat first, started the match with a wicket. Yashasvi Jaiswal (4) was caught out by Ashwin in the very first over by Khaleel Ahmed. However, after this Nitish Rana came to bat at number three and in this match he looked in a different form. He shared an 82-run partnership for the second wicket with opener Sanju Samson. Sanju Samson, who came to bat as an impact player, was dismissed after scoring 20 runs in 16 balls. He was sent to the pavilion by Noor Ahmed.

After this, Nitish shared a 38-run partnership in 24 balls with captain Riyan Parag. During this, left-handed batsman Nitish completed his 19th half-century in 21 balls. He was dismissed after playing a stormy 81 runs in 36 balls. Dhoni stumped him. Rajasthan’s innings faltered after losing three wickets for 124. In this match, Dhruv Jurel scored three, Wanindu Hasaranga scored four, Kumar Karthikeya scored one. For Chennai, Noor Ahmed, Khaleel Ahmed and Mathisa Pathirana took 2-2 wickets.

Rituraj Gaikwad’s half-century innings went in vain

Chennai’s start to chase the target was also not very good. In the very first over, Jofra Archer got Rachin Ravindra caught behind the wicket, he could not even open his account. After this, there was a partnership of 46 runs between Rahul Tripathi and Rituraj Gaikwad. As long as these two were batting, it seemed that Chennai was strengthening its hold in the match. But Hasaranga gave a big blow to CSK by dismissing Rahul Tripathi. He was dismissed after scoring 23 runs in 19 balls.

Shivam Dubey, who came to bat after Rahul Tripathi, scored 18 runs in 10 balls and Vijay Shankar scored 9 runs in 6 balls. After this, Rituraj Gaikwad was consistently batting well from one end, but he too was dismissed after scoring 63 runs in 44 balls. Later, Ravindra Jadeja scored 32 runs in 22 balls while Dhoni scored 16 runs in 11 balls, but this was not enough to give the team victory. Vanindu Hasaranga was the most successful for Rajasthan, he took 4 wickets in this match.