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2025 Chennai Super Kings season
2025 Indian Premier League cricket team From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The 2025 season is the 16th season for Chennai Super Kings in the Indian Premier League. The Super Kings are one of the ten teams competing in the 2025 Indian Premier League. the team finished in fifth place in the previous season.[1] The team is captained by M S Dhoni and coached by Stephen Fleming. Ruturaj Gaikwad was the captain during the early part of the season, and Dhoni replaced him as captain on 10 April after Gaikwad withdrew due to an elbow injury.
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The Super Kings had a poor season, and was the first team to be eliminated from contention for the playoffs. The team lost five matches at home in a season for the first time, and was eliminated in group stages in consecutive seasons for the first time since the inauguration of the tournament.
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Pre-season
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The 2025 Indian Premier League is the 18th edition of the Indian Premier League, a franchise Twenty20 cricket league held in India, organized by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). The tournament features ten teams competing in 74 matches from 22 March to 25 May 2025 across 13 venues in India.[2]
In September 2024, it was announced that Chennai's bowling coach, Dwayne Bravo, would join Kolkata Knight Riders in a mentorship role.[3]
Player retention
Franchises were allowed to retain a maximum of six players from their squad,[4][5] including a maximum of five recent international players.[6] Franchises were required to submit their retention lists before 31 October 2024.[7] Chennai retained five players including captain Ruturaj Gaikwad and former captains MS Dhoni and Ravindra Jadeja.[8]
Auction
The season's auction took place in November 2024 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.[11] The auction purse for each franchise was set at ₹120 crore (US$14 million), with franchises deducted an amount from the purse for every retained player.[12] Chennai had a purse remaining of ₹55 crore (US$6.5 million).[13] Franchises who did not retain six players, were allowed Right-to-Match cards at the auction for each player not retained.[14] Chennai had one card available.[15]
Chennai bought 20 players in the auction, including ten capped players and six overseas players. The franchise used its Right-to-Match card to buy back Rachin Ravindra for ₹4 crore (US$470,000).[16] They spent ₹10 crore (US$1.2 million) to buy Afghan spin bowler Noor Ahmad and ₹9.75 crore (US$1.2 million) on Indian all-rounder Ravichandran Ashwin, who had played for the team until 2015.[17] The team also bought back Mukesh Choudhary, Devon Conway, Sam Curran, and Shaik Rasheed, all of whom had previously played for the franchise.[16][10]
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- Players with international caps as of start of 2025 IPL are listed in bold.
- Ages are as of 22 March 2025.
- Withdrawn players are indicated by a dagger symbol (†) and placed at the bottom of the table.
- MS Dhoni took over as the captain after Ruturaj Gaikwad withdrew due to an elbow injury.[19]
- Dewald Brevis replaced Gurjapneet Singh, after the later withdrew due to injury.[20]
- Urvil Patel replaced Vansh Bedi, after the later withdrew due to injury.[21]
- Ayush Mhatre replaced Ruturaj Gaikwad, after the latter withdrew due to an elbow injury.[22]
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- Source: Wisden[23]
League stage
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The Super Kings started off with a win against rivals Mumbai Indians at Chennai, after the team chased down a target of 156 runs with four wickets to spare.[24] However, the team had a poor string of results, losing the next five games. This was the first time in the history of the tournament that the team had suffered five consecutive losses.[25] On 10 April, Gaikwad was ruled out of the for the rest of the season due to injury and Dhoni was re-appointed as captain.[26] The team secured its second win of the season in its seventh match against the Lucknow Super Giants on 14 April.[27] After the defeat against Punjab Kings on 30 April, the team had lost eight of its first ten matches and was the first team to be eliminated from contention for the playoffs.[28] The Super Kings lost five matches at home in a season for the first time, and was eliminated in group stages in consecutive seasons for the first time since the inauguration of the tournament.[29]
Points table
Updated to match(es) played on 20 May 2025. Source: ESPNcricinfo[30]
(E) Eliminated; (Q) Qualified for the phase indicated
(E) Eliminated; (Q) Qualified for the phase indicated
League progression
| Win | Loss | No result |
- Note: The total points at the end of each group match are listed.
- Note: Click on the points (group matches) or W/L (playoffs) to see the match summary.
Fixtures
Mumbai Indians 155/9 (20 overs) |
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Chennai Super Kings (H) 158/6 (19.1 overs) |
- Chennai Super Kings won the toss and elected to field.
- Vignesh Puthur (Mumbai Indians) made his T20 debut.[31]
- Ryan Rickelton (Mumbai Indians) made his IPL debut.[32]
Royal Challengers Bengaluru 196/7 (20 overs) |
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Chennai Super Kings (H) 146/8 (20 overs) |
- Chennai Super Kings won the toss and elected to field.
Rajasthan Royals (H) 182/9 (20 overs) |
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Chennai Super Kings 176/6 (20 overs) |
- Chennai Super Kings won the toss and elected to field.
Delhi Capitals 183/6 (20 overs) |
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Chennai Super Kings (H) 158/5 (20 overs) |
- Delhi Capitals won the toss and elected to bat.
Punjab Kings (H) 219/6 (20 overs) |
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Chennai Super Kings 201/5 (20 overs) |
- Punjab Kings won the toss and elected to bat.
Chennai Super Kings (H) 103/9 (20 overs) |
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Kolkata Knight Riders 107/2 (10.1 overs) |
- Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss and elected to field.
Lucknow Super Giants (H) 166/7 (20 overs) |
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Chennai Super Kings 168/5 (19.3 overs) |
- Chennai Super Kings won the toss and elected to field.
- Shaik Rasheed (Chennai Super Kings) made his IPL debut.[33]
Chennai Super Kings 176/5 (20 overs) |
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Mumbai Indians (H) 177/1 (15.4 overs) |
- Mumbai Indians won the toss and elected to field.
- Ayush Mhatre (Chennai Super Kings) made his T20 debut.[34]
Chennai Super Kings (H) 154 (19.5 overs) |
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Sunrisers Hyderabad 155/5 (18.4 overs) |
- Sunrisers Hyderabad won the toss and elected to field.
Chennai Super Kings (H) 190 (19.2 overs) |
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Punjab Kings 194/6 (19.4 overs) |
- Punjab Kings won the toss and elected to field.
- Yuzvendra Chahal (Punjab Kings) took his second hat-trick in IPL.[35]
- Chennai Super Kings were eliminated as a result of this match.[36]
Royal Challengers Bengaluru (H) 213/5 (20 overs) |
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Chennai Super Kings 211/5 (20 overs) |
- Chennai Super Kings won the toss and elected to field.
Kolkata Knight Riders (H) 179/6 (20 overs) |
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Chennai Super Kings 183/8 (19.4 overs) |
- Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss and elected to bat.
- Urvil Patel (Chennai Super Kings) made his IPL debut.
Chennai Super Kings (H) 187/8 (20 overs) |
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Rajasthan Royals 188/4 (17.1 overs) |
- Rajasthan Royals won the toss and elected to field.
- This match was originally scheduled for 12 May at the M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, before being rescheduled.[37][38][39]
Gujarat Titans (H) |
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