How can CSK qualify in play -offs even after losing 5 out of 6 games? Understand what the whole comparison is

Cricket News Desk. The ongoing battle of Chennai Super Kings continues in IPL 2025. On Friday, Kolkata Knight Riders suffered a one -sided defeat with eight wickets at their Chepock Stadium on the home field. Although veteran Mahendra Singh Dhoni took the lead on the team, the fate of the team did not change. The CSK’s bat first batted and failed badly. Spin Trio of Sunil Narine, Moin Ali and Varun Chakraborty performed brilliantly in 12 overs of their quota and rejected six batsmen of the opposition team for only 55 runs. The Super Kings team was able to score 103 runs after losing nine wickets in 20 overs. This is Chennai’s lowest score of IPL on Chepak. Chennai’s biggest contribution was 31 runs from all round Shivam Dubey. While Vijay Shankar scored 29 runs. A total of six batsmen from CSK, including Dhoni, were rejected in single points. KKR scored the target by scoring 107 runs with the loss of 2 wickets in just 10.1 overs, in which Naren also showed incredible batting and ensured the victory by playing an explosive turn of 44 runs with the help of 2 fours and 5 sixes of 18 balls. Chennai Super Kings has played 6 games so far this season, of which the team won only one game. Chennai Super Kings is ninth in the scoring table with a net run rate of two points and -1.554. Chennai lost five consecutive games. However, the fate of CSK can also change from here. Chennai can still qualify for the play -offs of IPL 2025. Outstanding hours are not closed for them. How can Chennai still qualify for the playoffs? Actually, Chennai Super Kings now has eight games left over here. Now every game for CSK is a do or the situation. Chennai can still qualify for a play -off match without lying from a team. He will have to win seven out of eight games. CSK can still reach 16 points. On the other hand, if CSK gets 14 points, that is, they win six out of eight games, they can still qualify for the playoffs. Chennai will also gradually have to improve his net run rate to get the chance to qualify by getting a better net run after scoring equal points from another team later. Eventually, we noticed that teams, despite having similar points, are due to the net run rate. Share this story -tags