{"id":22316,"date":"2025-05-08T07:20:19","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T01:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=22316"},"modified":"2025-05-08T07:20:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T01:35:19","slug":"chennai-secures-third-ipl-win-with-thrilling-victory-over-kolkata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/chennai-secures-third-ipl-win-with-thrilling-victory-over-kolkata\/","title":{"rendered":"Chennai secures third IPL win with thrilling victory over Kolkata"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p class=\"\" data-start=\"193\" data-end=\"390\"><strong data-start=\"193\" data-end=\"204\">Agency, May 8:<\/strong> Chennai Super Kings, already out of the IPL 2025 playoff race, claimed their third win of the season with a hard-fought two-wicket victory over Kolkata Knight Riders on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"392\" data-end=\"659\">In the match held at Eden Gardens, Kolkata batted first and posted a competitive total of 179\/6 in their 20 overs. Skipper Ajinkya Rahane led the charge with 48 runs, supported by Andre Russell (38), Manish Pandey (36), Sunil Narine (26), and Rahmanullah Gurbaz (11).<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"661\" data-end=\"837\">Chennai\u2019s bowling attack was spearheaded by Noor Ahmad, who impressed with figures of 4\/31 in his four overs. Anshul Kamboj and Ravindra Jadeja chipped in with a wicket apiece.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"839\" data-end=\"1081\">In reply, Chennai chased down the 180-run target in 19.4 overs, finishing at 180\/8. Dewald Brevis starred with a match-winning 52, while Shivam Dube (45), Urvil Patel (31), Ravindra Jadeja (19), and MS Dhoni (17) all made vital contributions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1083\" data-end=\"1216\">For Kolkata, Vaibhav Arora picked up 3 wickets, with Harshit Rana and Varun Chakravarthy taking 2 each. Moeen Ali claimed one wicket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1218\" data-end=\"1395\">Despite the win, Chennai remains at the bottom of the standings with 6 points from 12 matches. Kolkata, with 11 points from 12 games, currently sits in sixth place on the table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agency, May 8: Chennai Super Kings, already out of the IPL 2025 playoff race, claimed their third win of the season with a hard-fought two-wicket victory over Kolkata Knight Riders on Wednesday night. In the match held at Eden Gardens, Kolkata batted first and posted a competitive total of 179\/6 in their 20 overs. Skipper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22316","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\/22316"}],"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=22316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22318,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22316\/revisions\/22318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}