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The Indian Premier League (IPL) will face Chennai Super Kings and Royal Challengers Bangalore today in the 8th match of 2025. The match will be played at the Home Ground MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai. This will be the second match of both teams this season. Chennai defeated Mumbai Indians and Bengaluru in their first match to Kolkata Knight Riders.
Last season, Bangalore reached the playoffs after defeating Chennai. This match was quite spectacular. There was a do or die match for both teams to reach the playoffs. Chennai was to defeat Bangalore by at least 18 runs to qualify for the final-4. At the same time, Chennai would have made its place in the playoffs if lost by a margin of less than 18 runs. On its home ground, RCB won by 27 runs and made it to the next round.
Match details, eighth match CSK vs RCB date: 28 March Stadium: MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepock, Chennai Time: Toss- 7:00 PM, Match Start- 7:30 PM
Chennai ahead in head to head Chennai in the head to head is heavy on Bangalore. 34 IPL matches have been played between the two so far. Of these, 22 matches were won by Chennai and 11 in 11. While the result of a match could not be removed. At the same time, both teams have clashed at MA Chidambaram Stadium 9 times, 8 in Chennai and Bangalore in just 1. This victory came in 2008.
Noor CSK’s top wicket Chennai defeated Mumbai in the last match. In this low-scoring match, spinner Noor Ahmed took 4 wickets. He was adjudged Player of the Match. Apart from Noor, Jadeja and Ashwin are making the spin department very strong. Rachin Ravindra scored an unbeaten 65 in the batting.
Both RCB openers scored half -centuries in the last match In the last match for RCB, both openers scored half -centuries. Virat Kohli scored an unbeaten 59 and Phil Salt scored 56 runs. The team consists of T20 specialists like Liam Livingston, Jitesh Sharma and Krunal Pandya. Krunal Pandya is the top wicket of the team. He took 3 wickets against KKR in the last match and was elected Player of the Match.
Pitch report The pitch of MA Chidambaram Stadium is spin-friendly. Batting here is a bit difficult. So far 86 IPL matches have been played here. Teams who won 49 matches first and chase 37 matches won. The highest team score here is 246/5, which was made by the home team Chennai Super Kings against Rajasthan Royals in 2010.
Weather report Today the season of Chennai will be very hot. There will be strong sunlight throughout the day and there is no possibility of rain at all. The temperature is expected to be 26 to 36 degrees.
Possible Playing-12 Chennai Super Kings: Rituraj Gaikwad (captain), Rachin Ravindra, Rahul Tripathi, Deepak Hooda, Shivam Dubey, Ravindra Jadeja, Sam Karan, MS Dhoni (wicketkeeper), Ravichandran Ashwin, Noor Ahmed, Nathan Ellis and Khalil Ahmed.
Royal Challengers Bangalore: Rajat Patidar (Captain), Phil Soult, Virat Kohli, Lium Livingston, Jitesh Sharma (wicketkeeper), Tim David, Krunal Pandya, Rasikh Dar Salam, Suyash Sharma, Josh Hazlewood, Yash Dayal and Devdutt Padikkal.