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- Chennai Super Kings and Royal Challengers Bangalore will face each other today in the 8th match of IPL 2025. Today’s match will be played at Chennai’s home ground MA Chidambaram Stadium at 7.30 pm. So far in this season, both the teams are coming after winning their first match. While Chennai defeated 5-time champion Mumbai Indians by 4 wickets, Bangalore defeated last season’s champion Kolkata Knight Riders by 7 wickets.
- Last season also, there was a great match between the two teams. It was a do or die match for both the teams where Bangalore had to beat by 18 runs while Chennai had to lose by a lesser margin of 18 runs. Bangalore team made it to the playoffs by defeating Chennai by 27 runs on their home ground.
Match Details, 8th Match
CSK vs RCB
Date: March 28
Stadium: MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai
Time: Toss- 7:00 PM
Match Start- 7:30 PM
The last victory was achieved in 2008
- Talking about Royal Challengers Bangalore, the last time Bangalore defeated Chennai at their home ground Chepauk was 17 years ago in 2008. In that match, Bangalore batted first and scored 126 runs losing 8 wickets in 20 overs. In reply, Chennai’s team was restricted to 112 runs. Anil Kumble was the man of the match in that match who bowled brilliantly and took 4 wickets giving away just 14 runs in 4 overs. This was the last time Bangalore won against Chennai.
CSK vs RCB: Who is ahead in head to head?
- If we talk about head to head of both the teams, then Chennai’s team is far ahead of Bangalore. So far 34 matches have been played between the two teams in IPL where Chennai’s team has won 22 matches while Bangalore has won 11 matches. While the result of one match could not be decided.
- Both the teams have clashed 9 times so far at MA Chidambaram Stadium where Chennai has won 8 matches and Bangalore has won only 1 match.
Chennai’s spinners are better
- The Chepauk pitch helps spinners more than fast bowling. If we talk about the spinners of both the teams, Chennai has better spinners than Bangalore. Chennai’s man of the match player of the last match, Noor Ahmed, is also in form at this time. It may be difficult for Bangalore batsmen to read his bowling. Chennai also has India team’s two best spinners Allrounder Jadeja and Ashwin.
- In batting, Chennai has their captain Ruturaj Gaikwad, Shivam Dube and Rachin Ravindra who are in form at the moment.
Both Bangalore openers are in good form
- Talking about Bangalore’s openers, they have the world’s best batsman Virat Kohli and deadly batsman Phil Salt who come to open and start hitting and have the ability to take the team to a good score. Along with him, Bangalore has their captain Rajat Patidar, Livingstone in the middle order who can handle the game and when the time comes, can play fast and take the team to a good score.
- In the spin department, Bangalore has Kunal Pandya, who had also made an important contribution to the team’s victory in the last match against Kolkata by taking 3 wickets.
CSK vs RCB: Pitch Report
- The pitch of MA Chidambaram Stadium is always a spin-friendly pitch. So far 86 IPL matches have been played here where the team batting first has won in 49 matches while the chasing team has won in 37 matches. The highest score here is 246/5. Which Chennai made against Rajasthan Royals in 2010.
CSK vs RCB: Weather Report
- The weather in Chennai is going to be very clear today. There will be bright sunshine during the day and there is no chance of rain. The temperature is expected to be between 25 and 36 degrees.
Chennai Super Kings Probable Playing-12
- Rituraj Gaikwad (captain), Rachin Ravindra, Rahul Tripathi, Deepak Hooda, Shivam Dubey, Ravindra Jadeja, Sam Curran, MS Dhoni (wicketkeeper), Ravichandran Ashwin, Noor Ahmed, Nathan Ellis and Khalil Ahmed.
Royal Challengers Bangalore Probable Playing-12
- Rajat Patidar (captain), Phil Salt, Virat Kohli, Liam Livingstone, Jitesh Sharma (wicketkeeper), Tim David, Krunal Pandya, Rasikh Dar Salam, Suyash Sharma, Josh Hazlewood, Yash Dayal and Devdutt Padikal.
