The 8th match of IPL 2025 was played between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Chennai Super Kings. In this match, the RCB team won by a margin of 50 runs and defeated CSK in their own home after 17 years. An explosive innings by MS Dhoni was the center of attraction in this match. However, he came out to bat at number 9, so he did not get to play many balls. During this, he also faced Krunal Pandya, against whom Dhoni showed an aggressive attitude.

Dhoni took Krunal Pandya to task.

When MS Dhoni came out to bat in this match, his team's defeat was certain. He came to bat in the 16th over of Chennai Super Kings' innings. After this, he hit some big shots and returned to the pavilion unbeaten. During this, the last over of the match was bowled by Krunal Pandya from RCB. At the same time, Dhoni was on strike. Krunal managed to bowl a dot ball on the first ball. After this, he threw the second ball almost as a bouncer, which surprised everyone. Dhoni was also fooled by this ball because usually, spinners do not throw such balls.

Dhoni also gave a befitting reply to Krunal Pandya after this incident. He hit a long six on the very next ball. Dhoni did not stop here and he also hit the fourth ball of the over across the boundary and scored 12 runs in 2 balls. After this, Dhoni also hit a four on the last ball of this over. That is, Dhoni scored a total of 16 runs in this over. Based on which he scored an unbeaten 30 runs in 16 balls at a strike rate of 187.50, which included 3 fours and 2 sixes.

CSK could not chase the target of 197 runs

Talking about the match, Chennai Super Kings won the toss and decided to bowl first. On the other hand, the RCB team, batting first, managed to score 196 runs for the loss of 7 wickets in 20 overs. Captain Rajat Patidar scored the highest 51 runs for RCB. At the same time, Phil Scholt contributed 31 runs and Virat Kohli contributed 31 runs. After this, Tim David finished the innings by scoring an unbeaten 22 runs in 8 balls. On the other hand, while chasing the target, CSK team could score only 146 runs for the loss of 8 wickets in 20 overs. Rachin Ravindra scored the highest 41 runs, apart from him no batsman could cross the 30-run mark.

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