Background story &#8211; Using Tony Stark&#8217;s time-travelling formula, a Crictracker writer went forward in time to 2025 and came back. While he noticed some things were very different in the future, he noticed not a lot of things have changed in the IPL. He shared what happens after the 18th edition of the competition in 2025. This is what he had to say:

Times are about to change significantly for a lot of people, but not for some of these players and the IPL franchises. It felt like <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/chris-gayle-appointed-as-the-vice-captain-of-the-windies-for-the-world-cup-2019/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Chris Gayle</strong></a>&#8216;s time is up in cricket as he once again went unsold in the 2025 auction. He was roped into Royal Challengers Bangalore but didn&#8217;t have a great time with his former franchise.

Captain Shubman Gill and vice-captain Nitish Rana decided to use the RTM card yet again for Piyush Chawla. They said to the press after the 2025 auction, &#8220;Breathing is so difficult without him (Piyush) in the team,&#8221;. <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/t20/ipl-indian-premier-league/srh-sunrisers-hyderabad/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Sunrisers Hyderabad</strong></a> continued to struggle without their former cricketer Rashid Khan, who took early retirement three years back in 2022 while he was aged 23. Wondering why his body behaved like a 45-year-old, strange!

Among all the things that happened in the future, the following five things stood out as the best.

1. RCB management come together to discuss their auction targets

Ashish Nehra &#8211; the RCB head coach, bowling coach, fielding expert, team director, president and chairman of auction targeting, sat down with skipper Virat Kohli and some other dignitaries to discuss the auction targets for 2026, having &#8220;Won the hearts in 2025, but finished 7th&#8221;.

Nehra ji clearly suggested that RCB needs more batsmen despite having Shimron Hetmyer, AB de Villiers and &lt;two other world class players&gt;. Nehra ji also had a video chat with Umesh Yadav and <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/ipl-2019-flop-xi-of-the-group-stages/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Mohammed Siraj</strong></a>, asking them to not leave the club. A pay hike has also been awarded to them after registering a career-best season economy of 12.25 and 13.43).

Virat Kohli agreed with the auction targets and said they have to remove some of the bowlers to get world class batsmen. Once again they will be heading into the auction to buy three good batsmen as they have a perfect strategy for next season. They will score 230+ and pray for Umesh and Siraj to help the team win by 5 or 10 runs. Didn&#8217;t have the courage to see what happens in 2026, maybe another time for that.<br>

2. The incredible journey of Imran Tahir &#8211; Olympic Gold medal winner in sprinting

Well, there was always supposed to be an unknown secret behind Imran Tahir and his incredible sprint celebration. The South African veteran takes off quicker than a fighter jet plane when he takes a wicket and after he announced his retirement in 2020, he decided to shift his focus to sprinting. He noticed he wasn&#8217;t able to run as quick as he did when he took a wicket, hence he was contemplating to give up.

Some days later, he received a call from <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/batting-needs-to-get-better-reckons-ms-dhoni-after-csks-defeat-against-mi/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>MS Dhoni</strong></a>, who as usual gave him some life-changing &#8220;Tips&#8221;. He suggested Tahir watch videos of himself taking wickets before a sprint just to get some energy. The South African tried it and it worked brilliantly. He started clocking amazing speeds and after great hard work, he went into the Olympics in 2024.

He managed to win a rare gold medal for the Proteas at the grandiose event and credited his success to MS Dhoni. While talking to the press after the 100-meter race, he said, &#8220;Yes I did work hard, but Thala&#8217;s tips were out of this world.&#8221;<br>

3. Analyzing Rohit Sharma&#8217;s first season as a commentator

After a fantastic career as an opener, <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/ipl-2019-ishant-sharma-reveals-details-of-his-banters-with-rohit-sharma-and-virat-kohli/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Rohit Sharma</strong></a> called it time to his career after his side Mumbai failed to make it to playoffs in 2024 season. As always, they managed to choke in the year which is an even number and Rohit retired from cricket with over 10,000 ODI runs, 6 double centuries and many more records to his name.

He joined Sanjay Manjrekar and Sunil Gavaskar in the commentary box for the 2025 edition, not for MI TV, but for Star Sports. The Mumbai trio continued to sing praises of their team while the others remained non-existent. A blind fan who listens to commentary to follow the game, said in a comment on Instagram, &#8220;I was listening to what Mumbai was doing, but I never understood who was playing against them. The other team never got mentioned&#8221;.

He successfully continued the legacy of Manjrekar and Gavaskar as a Mumbaikar in the commentary box. While the others remained silent, Harsha Bhogle lashed out at the biased commentary and eventually got banned. Moral of the story &#8211; Don&#8217;t mess with Ambanis, let that be 2019, 2025 or 2050. While Mumbai keeps winning trophies, Liverpool is yet to win a Premier League trophy.<br>

4. CSK finish on top of the table but lose finals to Mumbai

Some things just don&#8217;t change for any team. Despite not having MS Dhoni as a player, his &#8220;Tips&#8221; continued to inspire <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/t20/ipl-indian-premier-league/csk-chennai-super-kings/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Chennai Super Kings</strong></a> to their 18th successive top-four finish. Chennai finished on top of the table, but lost both their group matches to Mumbai. While CSK fans kept dancing to the tunes of &#8220;Lungi dance&#8221;, apparently &#8220;Zingaat&#8221; is much stronger.

They reached the finals of the tournament, only to see Mumbai Indians set against them. The CSK fans were disappointed but tried to appear confident in the finals. After winning the title in 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021 and 2023, the Hardik Pandya-led team managed to win the title for a record seventh time. After the game, Pandya said to the fans &#8220;Mai phirse karke aaya&#8221;. Just to be clear, it wasn&#8217;t the coffee show he was talking about, he meant he once again won the IPL.

Guess who was doing the commentary &#8211; Rohit, Sunny ji and Manjrekar. All of them knew the result, they were pretty confident CSK could never beat them. Chennai fans looked deluded as their Chinna Thala couldn&#8217;t do anything, but they promised to come back stronger with more &#8220;Tips&#8221; from their original Thala.<br>

5. Ravi Ashwin completes his 100th Mankad dismissal, ICC considering to rename &#8220;Mankading&#8221; with &#8220;Ashwining&#8221;

Ravichandran Ashwin reached unattainable heights in the Indian Premier League, by marking his 100th Mankad dismissal (He dismissed Buttler three more times in this time period). Former Australian cricketers Shane Warne, <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/most-hated-xi-in-international-cricket/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Michael Clarke</strong></a> and Andrew Symonds said Ashwin plays against the spirit of the game, to which Ashwin posted a savage mirror picture on Instagram, suggesting them to look at their &#8220;Disciplinary acts&#8221;.

Aakash Chopra hailed him as the most amazing brain in IPL history after he completed his 100th Mankading dismissal and gave him the nickname &#8220;Most innovative thinking captain&#8221;. Ashwin smiled and obliged, but also credited one man for the &#8220;Tips&#8221;, you know who it is.

ICC decided to rename the mode of dismissal as &#8220;Ashwining&#8221;, with it&#8217;s past tense being &#8220;Ashwined&#8221;. But unfortunately, the 2025 season might be his final season in cricket after he was forced into retirement by his 100th victim of &#8220;Ashwining&#8221;, Virat Kohli. Kohli swung his bat at Ashwin&#8217;s legs out of frustration, which led to the Tamil Nadu cricketer announcing retirement. The sad finish really, but why did he do that to Kohli when he knows what will happen?

Disclaimer: All the characters, story, content is a work of fiction and meant for entertainment purpose only.

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<h4><amp-img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-342716" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/Mumbai-Chennai.png" alt="Mumbai-Chennai" width="700" height="463" layout="responsive" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;"></amp-img></h4>
<h4>Background story – Using Tony Stark’s time-travelling formula, a Crictracker writer went forward in time to 2025 and came back. While he noticed some things were very different in the future, he noticed not a lot of things have changed in the IPL. He shared what happens after the 18th edition of the competition in 2025. This is what he had to say:</h4>
<p>Times are about to change significantly for a lot of people, but not for some of these players and the IPL franchises. It felt like <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/chris-gayle-appointed-as-the-vice-captain-of-the-windies-for-the-world-cup-2019/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Chris Gayle</strong></a>‘s time is up in cricket as he once again went unsold in the 2025 auction. He was roped into Royal Challengers Bangalore but didn’t have a great time with his former franchise.</p>
<p>Captain Shubman Gill and vice-captain Nitish Rana decided to use the RTM card yet again for Piyush Chawla. They said to the press after the 2025 auction, “Breathing is so difficult without him (Piyush) in the team,”. <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/t20/ipl-indian-premier-league/srh-sunrisers-hyderabad/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Sunrisers Hyderabad</strong></a> continued to struggle without their former cricketer Rashid Khan, who took early retirement three years back in 2022 while he was aged 23. Wondering why his body behaved like a 45-year-old, strange!</p>
<p>Among all the things that happened in the future, the following five things stood out as the best.</p>
<h3>1. RCB management come together to discuss their auction targets</h3>
<p><amp-img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-342719" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/RCB-management-come-together-to-discuss-their-auction-targets.png" alt="RCB-management-come-together-to-discuss-their-auction-targets" width="700" height="463" layout="responsive" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;"></amp-img></p>
<p>Ashish Nehra – the RCB head coach, bowling coach, fielding expert, team director, president and chairman of auction targeting, sat down with skipper Virat Kohli and some other dignitaries to discuss the auction targets for 2026, having “Won the hearts in 2025, but finished 7th”.</p>
<p>Nehra ji clearly suggested that RCB needs more batsmen despite having Shimron Hetmyer, AB de Villiers and &lt;two other world class players&gt;. Nehra ji also had a video chat with Umesh Yadav and <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/ipl-2019-flop-xi-of-the-group-stages/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Mohammed Siraj</strong></a>, asking them to not leave the club. A pay hike has also been awarded to them after registering a career-best season economy of 12.25 and 13.43).</p>
<p>Virat Kohli agreed with the auction targets and said they have to remove some of the bowlers to get world class batsmen. Once again they will be heading into the auction to buy three good batsmen as they have a perfect strategy for next season. They will score 230+ and pray for Umesh and Siraj to help the team win by 5 or 10 runs. Didn’t have the courage to see what happens in 2026, maybe another time for that.<br>
</p>
<h3>2. The incredible journey of Imran Tahir – Olympic Gold medal winner in sprinting</h3>
<p><amp-img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-342718" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/IMran-Tahir-gold-medal-winner-olympics.png" alt="IMran-Tahir-gold-medal-winner-olympics" width="700" height="463" layout="responsive" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;"></amp-img></p>
<p>Well, there was always supposed to be an unknown secret behind Imran Tahir and his incredible sprint celebration. The South African veteran takes off quicker than a fighter jet plane when he takes a wicket and after he announced his retirement in 2020, he decided to shift his focus to sprinting. He noticed he wasn’t able to run as quick as he did when he took a wicket, hence he was contemplating to give up.</p>
<p>Some days later, he received a call from <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/batting-needs-to-get-better-reckons-ms-dhoni-after-csks-defeat-against-mi/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>MS Dhoni</strong></a>, who as usual gave him some life-changing “Tips”. He suggested Tahir watch videos of himself taking wickets before a sprint just to get some energy. The South African tried it and it worked brilliantly. He started clocking amazing speeds and after great hard work, he went into the Olympics in 2024.</p>
<p>He managed to win a rare gold medal for the Proteas at the grandiose event and credited his success to MS Dhoni. While talking to the press after the 100-meter race, he said, “Yes I did work hard, but Thala’s tips were out of this world.”<br>
</p>
<h3>3. Analyzing Rohit Sharma’s first season as a commentator</h3>
<p><amp-img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-342717" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/Rohit-Sharma-Commentory.png" alt="Rohit-Sharma-Commentory" width="700" height="463" layout="responsive" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;"></amp-img></p>
<p>After a fantastic career as an opener, <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/ipl-2019-ishant-sharma-reveals-details-of-his-banters-with-rohit-sharma-and-virat-kohli/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Rohit Sharma</strong></a> called it time to his career after his side Mumbai failed to make it to playoffs in 2024 season. As always, they managed to choke in the year which is an even number and Rohit retired from cricket with over 10,000 ODI runs, 6 double centuries and many more records to his name.</p>
<p>He joined Sanjay Manjrekar and Sunil Gavaskar in the commentary box for the 2025 edition, not for MI TV, but for Star Sports. The Mumbai trio continued to sing praises of their team while the others remained non-existent. A blind fan who listens to commentary to follow the game, said in a comment on Instagram, “I was listening to what Mumbai was doing, but I never understood who was playing against them. The other team never got mentioned”.</p>
<p>He successfully continued the legacy of Manjrekar and Gavaskar as a Mumbaikar in the commentary box. While the others remained silent, Harsha Bhogle lashed out at the biased commentary and eventually got banned. Moral of the story – Don’t mess with Ambanis, let that be 2019, 2025 or 2050. While Mumbai keeps winning trophies, Liverpool is yet to win a Premier League trophy.<br>
</p>
<h3>4. CSK finish on top of the table but lose finals to Mumbai</h3>
<p><amp-img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-342716" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/Mumbai-Chennai.png" alt="Mumbai-Chennai" width="700" height="463" layout="responsive" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;"></amp-img></p>
<p>Some things just don’t change for any team. Despite not having MS Dhoni as a player, his “Tips” continued to inspire <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/t20/ipl-indian-premier-league/csk-chennai-super-kings/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Chennai Super Kings</strong></a> to their 18th successive top-four finish. Chennai finished on top of the table, but lost both their group matches to Mumbai. While CSK fans kept dancing to the tunes of “Lungi dance”, apparently “Zingaat” is much stronger.</p>
<p>They reached the finals of the tournament, only to see Mumbai Indians set against them. The CSK fans were disappointed but tried to appear confident in the finals. After winning the title in 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021 and 2023, the Hardik Pandya-led team managed to win the title for a record seventh time. After the game, Pandya said to the fans “Mai phirse karke aaya”. Just to be clear, it wasn’t the coffee show he was talking about, he meant he once again won the IPL.</p>
<p>Guess who was doing the commentary – Rohit, Sunny ji and Manjrekar. All of them knew the result, they were pretty confident CSK could never beat them. Chennai fans looked deluded as their Chinna Thala couldn’t do anything, but they promised to come back stronger with more “Tips” from their original Thala.<br>
</p>
<h3>5. Ravi Ashwin completes his 100th Mankad dismissal, ICC considering to rename “Mankading” with “Ashwining”</h3>
<p><amp-img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-342715" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/Ravichandran-Ashwin-Mankading.png" alt="Ravichandran-Ashwin-Mankading" width="700" height="463" layout="responsive" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;"></amp-img></p>
<p>Ravichandran Ashwin reached unattainable heights in the Indian Premier League, by marking his 100th Mankad dismissal (He dismissed Buttler three more times in this time period). Former Australian cricketers Shane Warne, <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/most-hated-xi-in-international-cricket/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Michael Clarke</strong></a> and Andrew Symonds said Ashwin plays against the spirit of the game, to which Ashwin posted a savage mirror picture on Instagram, suggesting them to look at their “Disciplinary acts”.</p>
<p>Aakash Chopra hailed him as the most amazing brain in IPL history after he completed his 100th Mankading dismissal and gave him the nickname “Most innovative thinking captain”. Ashwin smiled and obliged, but also credited one man for the “Tips”, you know who it is.</p>
<p>ICC decided to rename the mode of dismissal as “Ashwining”, with it’s past tense being “Ashwined”. But unfortunately, the 2025 season might be his final season in cricket after he was forced into retirement by his 100th victim of “Ashwining”, Virat Kohli. Kohli swung his bat at Ashwin’s legs out of frustration, which led to the Tamil Nadu cricketer announcing retirement. The sad finish really, but why did he do that to Kohli when he knows what will happen?</p>
<h3 class="p1">Disclaimer: All the characters, story, content is a work of fiction and meant for entertainment purpose only.</h3>
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<h4><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-342716" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/Mumbai-Chennai.png" alt="Mumbai-Chennai" width="700" height="463" sizes="(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px"></h4>
<h4>Background story &#8211; Using Tony Stark&#8217;s time-travelling formula, a Crictracker writer went forward in time to 2025 and came back. While he noticed some things were very different in the future, he noticed not a lot of things have changed in the IPL. He shared what happens after the 18th edition of the competition in 2025. This is what he had to say:</h4>
<p>Times are about to change significantly for a lot of people, but not for some of these players and the IPL franchises. It felt like <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/chris-gayle-appointed-as-the-vice-captain-of-the-windies-for-the-world-cup-2019/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Chris Gayle</strong></a>&#8216;s time is up in cricket as he once again went unsold in the 2025 auction. He was roped into Royal Challengers Bangalore but didn&#8217;t have a great time with his former franchise.</p>
<p>Captain Shubman Gill and vice-captain Nitish Rana decided to use the RTM card yet again for Piyush Chawla. They said to the press after the 2025 auction, &#8220;Breathing is so difficult without him (Piyush) in the team,&#8221;. <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/t20/ipl-indian-premier-league/srh-sunrisers-hyderabad/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Sunrisers Hyderabad</strong></a> continued to struggle without their former cricketer Rashid Khan, who took early retirement three years back in 2022 while he was aged 23. Wondering why his body behaved like a 45-year-old, strange!</p>
<p>Among all the things that happened in the future, the following five things stood out as the best.</p>
<h3>1. RCB management come together to discuss their auction targets</h3>
<p><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-342719" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/RCB-management-come-together-to-discuss-their-auction-targets.png" alt="RCB-management-come-together-to-discuss-their-auction-targets" width="700" height="463" sizes="(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px"></p>
<p>Ashish Nehra &#8211; the RCB head coach, bowling coach, fielding expert, team director, president and chairman of auction targeting, sat down with skipper Virat Kohli and some other dignitaries to discuss the auction targets for 2026, having &#8220;Won the hearts in 2025, but finished 7th&#8221;.</p>
<p>Nehra ji clearly suggested that RCB needs more batsmen despite having Shimron Hetmyer, AB de Villiers and &lt;two other world class players&gt;. Nehra ji also had a video chat with Umesh Yadav and <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/ipl-2019-flop-xi-of-the-group-stages/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Mohammed Siraj</strong></a>, asking them to not leave the club. A pay hike has also been awarded to them after registering a career-best season economy of 12.25 and 13.43).</p>
<p>Virat Kohli agreed with the auction targets and said they have to remove some of the bowlers to get world class batsmen. Once again they will be heading into the auction to buy three good batsmen as they have a perfect strategy for next season. They will score 230+ and pray for Umesh and Siraj to help the team win by 5 or 10 runs. Didn&#8217;t have the courage to see what happens in 2026, maybe another time for that.<br>
</p>
<h3>2. The incredible journey of Imran Tahir &#8211; Olympic Gold medal winner in sprinting</h3>
<p><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-342718" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/IMran-Tahir-gold-medal-winner-olympics.png" alt="IMran-Tahir-gold-medal-winner-olympics" width="700" height="463" sizes="(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px"></p>
<p>Well, there was always supposed to be an unknown secret behind Imran Tahir and his incredible sprint celebration. The South African veteran takes off quicker than a fighter jet plane when he takes a wicket and after he announced his retirement in 2020, he decided to shift his focus to sprinting. He noticed he wasn&#8217;t able to run as quick as he did when he took a wicket, hence he was contemplating to give up.</p>
<p>Some days later, he received a call from <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/batting-needs-to-get-better-reckons-ms-dhoni-after-csks-defeat-against-mi/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>MS Dhoni</strong></a>, who as usual gave him some life-changing &#8220;Tips&#8221;. He suggested Tahir watch videos of himself taking wickets before a sprint just to get some energy. The South African tried it and it worked brilliantly. He started clocking amazing speeds and after great hard work, he went into the Olympics in 2024.</p>
<p>He managed to win a rare gold medal for the Proteas at the grandiose event and credited his success to MS Dhoni. While talking to the press after the 100-meter race, he said, &#8220;Yes I did work hard, but Thala&#8217;s tips were out of this world.&#8221;<br>
</p>
<h3>3. Analyzing Rohit Sharma&#8217;s first season as a commentator</h3>
<p><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-342717" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/Rohit-Sharma-Commentory.png" alt="Rohit-Sharma-Commentory" width="700" height="463" sizes="(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px"></p>
<p>After a fantastic career as an opener, <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/ipl-2019-ishant-sharma-reveals-details-of-his-banters-with-rohit-sharma-and-virat-kohli/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Rohit Sharma</strong></a> called it time to his career after his side Mumbai failed to make it to playoffs in 2024 season. As always, they managed to choke in the year which is an even number and Rohit retired from cricket with over 10,000 ODI runs, 6 double centuries and many more records to his name.</p>
<p>He joined Sanjay Manjrekar and Sunil Gavaskar in the commentary box for the 2025 edition, not for MI TV, but for Star Sports. The Mumbai trio continued to sing praises of their team while the others remained non-existent. A blind fan who listens to commentary to follow the game, said in a comment on Instagram, &#8220;I was listening to what Mumbai was doing, but I never understood who was playing against them. The other team never got mentioned&#8221;.</p>
<p>He successfully continued the legacy of Manjrekar and Gavaskar as a Mumbaikar in the commentary box. While the others remained silent, Harsha Bhogle lashed out at the biased commentary and eventually got banned. Moral of the story &#8211; Don&#8217;t mess with Ambanis, let that be 2019, 2025 or 2050. While Mumbai keeps winning trophies, Liverpool is yet to win a Premier League trophy.<br>
</p>
<h3>4. CSK finish on top of the table but lose finals to Mumbai</h3>
<p><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-342716" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/Mumbai-Chennai.png" alt="Mumbai-Chennai" width="700" height="463" sizes="(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px"></p>
<p>Some things just don&#8217;t change for any team. Despite not having MS Dhoni as a player, his &#8220;Tips&#8221; continued to inspire <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/t20/ipl-indian-premier-league/csk-chennai-super-kings/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Chennai Super Kings</strong></a> to their 18th successive top-four finish. Chennai finished on top of the table, but lost both their group matches to Mumbai. While CSK fans kept dancing to the tunes of &#8220;Lungi dance&#8221;, apparently &#8220;Zingaat&#8221; is much stronger.</p>
<p>They reached the finals of the tournament, only to see Mumbai Indians set against them. The CSK fans were disappointed but tried to appear confident in the finals. After winning the title in 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021 and 2023, the Hardik Pandya-led team managed to win the title for a record seventh time. After the game, Pandya said to the fans &#8220;Mai phirse karke aaya&#8221;. Just to be clear, it wasn&#8217;t the coffee show he was talking about, he meant he once again won the IPL.</p>
<p>Guess who was doing the commentary &#8211; Rohit, Sunny ji and Manjrekar. All of them knew the result, they were pretty confident CSK could never beat them. Chennai fans looked deluded as their Chinna Thala couldn&#8217;t do anything, but they promised to come back stronger with more &#8220;Tips&#8221; from their original Thala.<br>
</p>
<h3>5. Ravi Ashwin completes his 100th Mankad dismissal, ICC considering to rename &#8220;Mankading&#8221; with &#8220;Ashwining&#8221;</h3>
<p><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-342715" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/Ravichandran-Ashwin-Mankading.png" alt="Ravichandran-Ashwin-Mankading" width="700" height="463" sizes="(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px"></p>
<p>Ravichandran Ashwin reached unattainable heights in the Indian Premier League, by marking his 100th Mankad dismissal (He dismissed Buttler three more times in this time period). Former Australian cricketers Shane Warne, <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/most-hated-xi-in-international-cricket/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Michael Clarke</strong></a> and Andrew Symonds said Ashwin plays against the spirit of the game, to which Ashwin posted a savage mirror picture on Instagram, suggesting them to look at their &#8220;Disciplinary acts&#8221;.</p>
<p>Aakash Chopra hailed him as the most amazing brain in IPL history after he completed his 100th Mankading dismissal and gave him the nickname &#8220;Most innovative thinking captain&#8221;. Ashwin smiled and obliged, but also credited one man for the &#8220;Tips&#8221;, you know who it is.</p>
<p>ICC decided to rename the mode of dismissal as &#8220;Ashwining&#8221;, with it&#8217;s past tense being &#8220;Ashwined&#8221;. But unfortunately, the 2025 season might be his final season in cricket after he was forced into retirement by his 100th victim of &#8220;Ashwining&#8221;, Virat Kohli. Kohli swung his bat at Ashwin&#8217;s legs out of frustration, which led to the Tamil Nadu cricketer announcing retirement. The sad finish really, but why did he do that to Kohli when he knows what will happen?</p>
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