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IPL 2025: Laggards Super Kings, Sunrisers battle for survival
The Statesman Siliguri
|April 25, 2025
Enduring a poor run in the IPL 2025, Chennai Super Kings (CSK) will have the best opportunity to stage a much-needed comeback at home when they take on an equally desperate Sunrisers Hyderabad in a battle of survival in a league match at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai on Friday.
Placed at the rock bottom of the IPL points tally with identical fortunes, both SRH and CSK have four points from eight games each, and need to win all their remaining matches of the tournament to have any chances of reaching the playoffs. The problem for five-time champions CSK this season has been their inconsistent run at the Chepauk, once their fortress being breached by numerous teams this season. While they started strongly with a win against Mumbai Indians in their season opener, but their campaign faltered after suffering three successive losses thereafter.
The seamer-friendly conditions at home this season has added to their frustration as CSK has traditionally relied on their spinners. Even their head coach Stephen Fleming has voiced concern over the alien nature of the surface at the Chepauk.
This story is from the April 25, 2025 edition of The Statesman Siliguri.
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