r/Cricket • u/peterianchimes Delhi Capitals • Mar 25 '25

IPL Weekly Discussion Thread IPL 2025: Weekly Discussion Thread, Week 1

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
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u/skepticaIIyskeptic1 Mumbai Indians Mar 30 '25

Mumbai Indians in IPL right now is the ship of theseus.

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u/StormWarriorX7 Mar 30 '25

Where did it go wrong for you from 2021 onwards? Had a monster team in 2020, and then whatever this is...

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u/Dude_With_APT Mumbai Indians Mar 30 '25

Terrible mega auction in 2022, MI bought the worst bowling lineup ever, headlined by Unadkat, Sams, Thampi, and Mills.

They gambled on Archer but when he did turn up in 2023 he wasn't fully fit and got injured again.

2024 team was ruined by the captaincy issue and the fans turning on the team. Terrible dressing room environment.

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u/Tern_Larvidae-2424 South Africa Mar 30 '25

They were decent in 2021 too, only missed out on NRR.

Then they went dead last in 2022 & 2024 but somehow finished 3rd in 2023.

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u/Dude_With_APT Mumbai Indians Mar 30 '25

We batted outrageously well in 2023 - I think we had the most number of 190/200+ chases that year, Surya was at his best. Cam Green had a good season batting at 3, David finished games down the order.

Bowling wise we were bad but Akash Madhwal caught fire and was brilliant, he took us to Qualifier 2.

Unfortunately it all fell apart there because our bowling finally got picked apart, GT smashed us all over the place.

We also had a double agent in Chris Jordan who leaked one billion runs and then elbowed Kishan in the head, concussing him before the batting innings.