In the 30th match of IPL 2025, Chennai Super Kings defeated Lucknow Super Giants by 5 wickets at his home ground Ekana Stadium. The target of 167 runs was being chased in this match. During this run chase, CSK’s innings once again stumbled. Chennai’s fifth wicket fell on the score of 111, after which captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni came to bat. Dhoni, along with Shivam Dubey, shared an unbeaten half -century partnership of 57 runs and won the team with 3 balls remaining. MS Dhoni was elected “Player of the Match” (POTM) for the match winning innings (26 off 11 balls) against LSG. Apart from this, he has also won many records. What are those records? Let’s know in detail.
Dhoni collapsed Praveen copper
Let us know that Mahendra Singh Dhoni has won the “Player of the Match” at the age of 43 years 281 days. In this case, he has demolished the record of Praveen Copper, who won the award at the age of 43 years 60 days. Shane Warne has won the award at 41 years 223 days, Adam Gilchrist 41 years 181 days and Chris Gayle at the age of 41 years 35 days.
Dhoni won the POTM Award after 2206 days
Dhoni has been elected Player of the Match in IPL after 6 years. The last time he was awarded the Player of the Match Award for an unbeaten 44 -run innings against Delhi Capitals in IPL 2019.
Dhoni equals Virat-Warner
In the IPL, Dhoni has won the Player of the Match Award 18 times so far, with which he has also equaled Virat Kohli and David Warner in terms of winning the highest player of the match award.
Players winning the most POTM Awards in IPL
25 – AB de Villiers 22 – Chris Gayle 19 – Rohit Sharma 18 – MS Dhoni* 18 – David Warner 18 – Virat Kohli
Puri’s special double century behind the wicket
In this match, MS Dhoni made another big record. He became the first player to hunt 200 from behind the wicket in the IPL. He stumped Ayush Badoni off Rachin Ravindra in the match.
This was Dhoni’s 46th stumping in the IPL. He also got caught by Pant in this match and this figure of 200 touched. Dhoni has so far caught 154 catches in the IPL.
This victory increased the confidence of the entire team – MS Dhoni
During the award ceremony after the match, Dhoni said, ‘It looks good that we have won the match. When you are playing the league like this, then it becomes necessary to win. Whatever the reason, the first five matches were not in our favor. There can be many reasons for losing the match here. One has won in our favor, this is a good thing. This has increased the confidence of the entire team and where there is a need to improve in the team, it will help to improve.
He said, ‘We all know when the cricket match is not in our favor, God makes him more difficult and this game was really difficult. If you look at Powerplay, it was a combination or conditions, we were struggling with the ball and as a batting group we wanted, she could not find us. We have consistently lost the wrong place and at the wrong time. One of these reasons can also be that Chennai pitch is slightly slow. When we played outside the home ground, our batsmen have managed to perform much better. Perhaps we need to play on a better pitch, which gives the batsmen confident to play their shots.
Dhoni further said, ‘You will not want to play cricket like Dabbu. We were all putting some more pressure on Ashwin. He was putting about two overs in the powerplay. We made change and could do better than before. We did well as a bowling group. We can do better as a batting group. This was the thing that we wanted to talk about.
He said, ‘If you start well, you can play well throughout the innings. He (Sheikh Receipt) has been with us for a few years. This year he has batted well against both spinner and pacer in the nets. this is the beginning. He has the ability to play good shots.
Dhoni told this player the real entitlement of Potm
When Dhoni received the POTM Award after the match, he looked a little shocked. He said why are you giving this award to me? He said, ‘I am still thinking, why are you giving me the award? Noor bowled very well. Let us tell you that in the match against Lucknow Super Giants, Noor Ahmed spent only 13 runs in 4 overs quota, although he could not take wickets in this match.
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