{"id":21066,"date":"2025-04-15T07:45:20","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T02:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=21066"},"modified":"2025-04-15T07:45:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T02:00:20","slug":"chennai-secures-second-win-in-ipl-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/chennai-secures-second-win-in-ipl-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Chennai secures second win in IPL 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p class=\"\" data-start=\"44\" data-end=\"222\"><strong data-start=\"44\" data-end=\"63\">Agency, April 15: <\/strong>Chennai Super Kings clinched their second victory of the Indian Premier League (IPL) season with a five-wicket win over Lucknow Super Giants on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"224\" data-end=\"477\">Chasing a target of 167 runs, Chennai reached 168 for 5 in 19.3 overs. Shivam Dube led the charge with a solid 43 runs, while Rachin Ravindra contributed 37. Shaik Rasheed added 27 runs, and skipper MS Dhoni finished it off in style with a quickfire 26.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"479\" data-end=\"620\">For Lucknow, Ravi Bishnoi was the pick of the bowlers with two wickets. Digvijay Rathore, Avesh Khan, and Aiden Markram took one wicket each.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"622\" data-end=\"946\">Earlier, after losing the toss and being asked to bat first on their home ground, Lucknow posted a competitive total of 166 for 7 in 20 overs. Captain Rishabh Pant top-scored with a fluent 63 off 49 balls, smashing four fours and four sixes. Mitchell Marsh added 30, Ayush Badoni 22, and Abdul Samad chipped in with 20 runs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"948\" data-end=\"1113\">Chennai\u2019s bowling attack was led by Ravindra Jadeja and Matheesha Pathirana, both picking up two wickets each. Khalil Ahmed and Anshul Kamboj took one wicket apiece.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1115\" data-end=\"1297\">Despite the win, Chennai remains at the bottom of the points table with 4 points from 7 matches. Meanwhile, Lucknow stays in fourth place with 8 points from the same number of games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agency, April 15: Chennai Super Kings clinched their second victory of the Indian Premier League (IPL) season with a five-wicket win over Lucknow Super Giants on Tuesday night. Chasing a target of 167 runs, Chennai reached 168 for 5 in 19.3 overs. Shivam Dube led the charge with a solid 43 runs, while Rachin Ravindra [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21066"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21066"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21070,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21066\/revisions\/21070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}