IPL 2025: CSK vs DC Stats & Records at MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai

An unbeaten Delhi Capitals (DC) will travel to Chennai to take on currently struggling Chennai Super Kings (CSK) in Match 17 of Indian Premier League 2025. This game will be a day game on a double-header day. 

CSK won their opening game of the season, but have lost two matches in a row. In their last game, RR trumped over them in Guwahati. Nitish Rana went hammer and tongs in the powerplay, but the rest of RR's batting fizzled out. RR's total of 182 didn't look all that threatening, but Jofra Archer bowled three tight overs in the powerplay and Wanindu Hasaranga set off a middle order collapse. Ruturaj Gaikwad stood tall through the damage, but his dismissal pretty much sealed it for RR. MS Dhoni and Ravindra Jadeja elicited hope, but RR got home by 6 runs. 

DC had an easier time against SRH. Mitchell Starc wrecked the Orange Army in the powerplay and Kuldeep Yadav got the job done in the middle overs. Aniket Verma displayed his best six-hitting ability to somehow steer the score through the collapse, but Starc returned at the death to complete his fifer. Faf du Plessis' rapid fifty made the chase much easier for DC. 

IPL Stats & Records at MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai 

The surface as always will be expected to be slow and aiding spinners. But that doesn't mean it is immune from high total every once in a while. 

Player battles to watch out for in Chennai Super Kings vs Delhi Capitals, Match 17:

1. Ruturaj Gaikwad vs Axar Patel

The battle between the two skippers will be one of the more exciting ones to look forward to in this contest. On a surface expected to aid spin, Gaikwad will have to take up the mantle of countering DC's skipper as the only in-form CSK batter in the tournament. In the past, Gaikwad has made 58 runs in 40 balls off Axar at a strike rate of 145 and has been dismissed just once. 

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2. Faf du Plessis vs R Ashwin 

The two had spent as many as five seasons as teammates at CSK in the first half of the previous decade, but in the 10 years since they both left the "Yellove", the two have had a long drawn out battle in the IPL. The former South African skipper has managed just 72 runs in 68 balls against Ashwin at a strike rate of 105.89, but has been dismissed just once. 

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