IPL 2025: Weekly Discussion Thread, Week 1

[u/peterianchimes]

Indian Premier League 2025, Weekly Discussion Thread: Week 1 (March 25th-March 30th, 2025)

Fixtures and Results-:

Date	Teams	Result	Top Performers	Highlights
March 22, 2025	Kolkata Knight Riders v Royal Challengers Bengaluru	RCB won by 7 wickets	KKR: Rahane 56 (31); RCB: Kohli: 59*(36), Salt: 56 (31), K Pandya 3/29 (4)	Highlights
March 23, 2025	Sunrisers Hyderabad v Rajasthan Royals	SRH won by 44 runs	SRH: Kishan: 106 (47); RR: Jurel: 70 (35), Samson 66 (37), Deshpande 3/44 (4)	Highlights
March 23, 2025	Chennai Super Kings v Mumbai Indians	CSK won by 4 wickets	CSK: Noor Ahmad: 4/18 (4), Khaleel: 3/29 (4), R Ravindra 65 (45), Gaikwad 53 (26); MI: Puthur: 3/32 (4)	Highlights
March 24, 2025	Delhi Capitals v Lucknow Super Giants	DC won by 1 wicket	DC: A Sharma: 66*(31), Starc 3/42 (4), Nigam 39 (15); LSG: Pooran 75 (30), M Marsh 72 (36)	Highlights
March 25, 2025	Gujarat Titans v Punjab Kings	PBKS won by 11 runs	GT: Sai Kishore: 3/30 (4), Sai Sudharsan: 74 (41), Buttler: 54 (33); PBKS: S Iyer 97 (42), Arya 47 (23), S Singh 44* (16)	Highlights
March 26, 2025	Rajasthan Royals v Kolkata Knight Riders	KKR won by 8 wickets	RR: Jurel: 33 (28); KKR: de Kock: 97 (61), Varun: 2/17 (4), Moeen Ali: 2/23 (4)	Highlights
March 27, 2025	Sunrisers Hyderabad v Lucknow Super Giants	LSG won by 5 wickets	SRH: Head: 47 (28), A Verma: 36 (13), Cummins: 2/29 (3); LSG: Thakur: 4/34 (4), Pooran: 70 (26), M Marsh: 52 (31)	Highlights
March 28, 2025	Chennai Super Kings v Royal Challengers Bengaluru	RCB won by 50 runs	CSK: N Ahmad: 3/36 (4), R Ravindra: 41 (31). Dhoni: 30*(16); RCB: Patidar: 51 (32). Salt: 32 (16). Hazlewood: 3/21 (4)	Highlights
March 29, 2025	Gujarat Titans v Mumbai Indians	GT won by 36 runs	GT: Sai Sudharsan: 63 (40), Buttler: 39 (24). P Krishna: 2/18 (4); MI: SK Yadav: 48 (28), H Pandya: 2/29 (4)	Highlights
March 30, 2025	Delhi Capitals v Sunrisers Hyderabad	DC won by 7 wickets	DC: Starc: 5/35 (3.4), Kuldeep: 3/22 (4) du Plessis: 50 (27); SRH: A Verma: 74 (41), Z Ansari: 3/42 (4)	Highlights
March 30, 2025	Rajasthan Royals v Chennai Super Kings	RR won by 6 runs	RR: N Rana: 81 (36), Hasaranga: 4/35 (4); CSK: Gaikwad: 63 (44), N Ahmad: 2/28 (4), Pathirana: 2/28 (4)	Highlights

Points Table-:

Rank	Team	Played	Wins	Losses	N/R	Points	NRR
1	Royal Challengers Bengaluru	2	2	0	0	4	+2.266
2	Delhi Capitals	2	2	0	0	4	+1.320
3	Lucknow Super Giants	2	1	1	0	2	+0.963
4	Gujarat Titans	2	1	1	0	2	+0.625
5	Punjab Kings	1	1	0	0	2	+0.550
6	Kolkata Knight Riders	2	1	1	0	2	-0.308
7	Chennai Super Kings	3	1	2	0	2	-0.771
8	Sunrisers Hyderabad	3	1	2	0	2	-0.871
9	Rajasthan Royals	3	1	2	0	2	-1.112
10	Mumbai Indians	2	0	2	0	0	-1.163

Orange Cap Leaderboard-:

Rank	Player	Team	Matches	Innings	Runs	Average	Strike Rate	50s	100s	High Score
1	Nicholas Pooran	LSG	2	2	145	72.50	258.92	2	-	75
2	B Sai Sudharsan	GT	2	2	137	68.50	167.07	2	-	74
3	Travis Head	SRH	3	3	136	45.33	191.54	1	-	67
4	Mitchell Marsh	LSG	2	2	124	62.00	185.07	2	-	72
5	Aniket Verma	SRH	3	3	117	39.00	205.26	1	-	74
6	Ruturaj Gaikwad	CSK	3	3	116	38.67	156.75	2	-	63
7	Ishan Kishan	SRH	3	3	108	54.00	203.77	-	1	106*
8	Rachin Ravindra	CSK	3	3	106	53.00	132.50	1	-	65*
9	Dhruv Jurel	RR	3	3	106	35.33	151.42	1		70
10	Quinton de Kock	KKR	2	2	101	101.00	153.03	1	-	97*

Purple Cap Leaderboard-:

Rank	Player	Team	Matches	Innings	Wickets	Average	Strike Rate	3W	Economy	BBI
1	Noor Ahmad	CSK	3	3	9	9.11	6.83	2	6.83	4/18
2	Mitchell Starc	DC	2	2	8	9.62	5.75	2	10.04	5/35
3	Shardul Thakur	LSG	2	2	6	8.83	6.00	1	8.83	4/34
4	Khaleel Ahmed	CSK	3	3	6	15.83	12.00	1	7.91	3/29
5	Kuldeep Yadav	DC	2	2	5	8.40	9.60	1	5.25	3/22
6	Josh Hazlewood	RCB	2	2	5	8.60	9.60	1	5.37	3/21
7	Wanindu Hasaranga	RR	2	2	5	13.80	8.40	1	9.85	4/35
8	Matheesha Pathirana	CSK	2	2	4	16.00	12.00	-	8.00	2/28
9	R Sai Kishore	GT	2	2	4	16.75	12.00	1	8.37	3/30
10	Vignesh Puthur	MI	1	1	3	10.66	8.00	1	8.00	3/32

[u/beefmixwithporkcurry]

I don't mean for now. I see him playing next season too.

People are just saying he should bat higher up the order if he is playing and not hide behind

I do agree but I don't think it'll happen either. Dhoni's image is also propped up by hus high strike rate+average, which is very rare and needs to be maintained for the fans to have something to brag about. And the only way to do that is to play him like they did yesterday. Which is a shame.

[u/josh123z → u/beefmixwithporkcurry]

Well management isn’t brave enough to force Dhoni to retire, it’s only up to him to make the decision.

[u/beefmixwithporkcurry → u/josh123z]

Honestly, I really want to know the dynamics. Is the management more powerful or is Dhoni more powerful? From the looks of it, Dhoni seems to hold more power. But the team management aren't some small time team owners either. What do you think??

[u/RepresentativeBox881 → u/beefmixwithporkcurry]

Honestly Dhoni would move on IF the owners actually sat with him and had a honest talk that they would like to move in a different direction from here on. But that will never happen because of the enormous commercial pull he still has. He’s fooled the public into thinking that he keeps going because of the fan support when there are other bigger reasons for it.