Rajasthan Royals closed their woeful 2025 IPL season with a snug six-wicket win over Chennai Tremendous Kings after prodigy Vaibhav Suryavanshi paved the way in which with a mature 57-run knock in an inconsequential contest on Tuesday. The discover of the season for Royals in an in any other case forgettable season, the 14-year previous Suryavanshi as soon as once more placed on show a fearless present throughout his 33-ball knock as his facet overhauled a goal of 188 with outstanding ease.
CSK presently are final with six factors from 13 video games with a NRR of -1.030. RR are ninth with eight factors from 14 video games with a NRR of -0.549. CSK must win by a really huge margin of their final match towards Gujarat Titans to keep away from a final place end for the primary time in IPL.
Yashasvi Jaiswal had set the tone for the chase with a fiery 36 and Suryavanshi carried ahead the nice work along with his spectacular knock.
Jaiswal, earlier than being castled by Anshul Kamboj, was extreme on Khaleed Ahmed, creaming off 18 runs from the pacer’s second over whereas offering a rollicking begin to his facet.
Suryavanshi was watchful initially however by no means allowed the balls in his zone to go unpunished, and even a seasoned campaigner like Ravindra Jadeja couldn’t comprise him.
He despatched the ball hovering into the stands off Jadeja twice and accomplished his half-century along with his fourth six, that got here off spinner Noor Ahmad.
With skipper Sanju Samon (41) he raised a match-winning 98-run stand for the second wicket. The skipper was completely happy taking part in second fiddle to {the teenager}.
It was solely the fourth win of the season for the Royals, who might keep away from a last-place end with Tuesday’s victory.
After Samson’s dismissal, Suryavanshi and Riyan Parag (3) additionally joined their skipper within the dug out, and it seemed like Royals might once more snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
The equation learn 30 off 26 balls, however Dhurv Jurel (31) and Shimron Heymyer (12) carried the facet previous the end line.
Earlier, Younger Ayush Mhatre as soon as once more reminded everybody that he’s one for the long run with a 20-ball 43 that helped CSK huff and puff to a modest 187 for eight.
MS Dhoni’s group would have been in larger hassle had Dewald Brevis (42) and Shivam Dube (39) not prevented the innings from falling aside. Dhoni himself may handle solely a sedate 16 off 17, failing to offer a late flourish.
There was no finish to the woes of the his group’s floundering center order. The promising begin was frittered away with Devin Conway (10), Urvil Patel (0) struggling to get going, they usually had misplaced half the group inside eight overs.
Pacers Yudhvir Singh (3/47) and Akash Madhwal (3/29) shared six wickets between them.
Conway started with a fluent drive off Tushar Deshpande, who was mixing up his size properly, and beat the bat of the New Zealander quite a few instances.
Conway didn’t final lengthy, providing a easy catch to Parag at mid-off off Yudhvir. He charged down the wicket however simply managed to chip the nice size ball.
Yudhvir struck once more, sending again the proficient Patel, who went for an enormous shot however failed to attach, and Kwena Maphaka took a pointy catch on the fringe of the circle.
Mhatre moved the scoreboard by discovering two boundaries off Deshpande, who was hitting the deck laborious.
R Ashwin’s shock promotion to quantity 4 left the followers delighted because the spin all-rounder broke the shackles with an incredible six on the leg facet off Yudhvir. Mhatre additionally discovered consecutive boundaries as CSK milked 24 runs in that over.
The teenager continued to bat in aggressive trend, discovering a hat-trick of boundaries off Deshpande however the pacer had the final snort.
Quickly Ashwin departed and Ravindra Jadeja additionally couldn’t make any impression, flicking off his legs to Dhruv Jurel, to offer Yudhvir his third wicket of the match.
The run price was not a difficulty, as CSK had been going at near 10 an over however half of the batters had been again within the dug out nicely earlier than the half-way mark.
In got here Brevis and the South African churned out yet one more impression knock, a 25-ball 42. His entraining knock that had three sixes and two fours was ended by Madhwal. However earlier than that, Brevis and Shivam Dube added 59 runs for the sixth wicket to maintain CSK in hunt for a 200-plus complete.
The spectators had been on their ft when ‘Thala’ Dhoni arrived on the fall of the Protea batter. The CSK skipper punished a full-length ball from Riyan Parag for a six, a lot to the delight of followers because the chants of ‘Dhoni’ ‘Dhoni’ reverberated throughout the stadium.
Runs continued to circulate from Dube’s bat because the tall left-hander dispatched one from Wanindu Hasaranga into the stands. Nevertheless, the late push by no means got here.
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