Tuesday’s 22nd IPL 2025 match at the Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium in Mullanpur saw the Punjab Kings (PBKS) easily defeat the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) by 18 runs. After defeating the Mumbai Indians (MI) in their opening game, the yellow team suffered their fourth consecutive loss.
PBKS won the toss and chose to bat first in the contest which resulted in Piyansh Arya (103 in 39 balls) leading them to their 219 for six runs in 20 overs. The effective batting performance came from support plays by Marco Jansen (34) and Shashank Singh (52) respectively. Each bowler in the CSK team took two wickets during their playing time.
CSK batters Devon Conway (69) and Shivam Dube (42), Rachin Ravindra (36) with MS Dhoni (27) made respectable contributions at the bat but their effort stopped at 201 for five in 20 overs.
The fans were delighted by the thrilling cricket action in the high-scoring IPL 2025 encounter between PBKS and CSK. On X (previously known as Twitter), they shared amusing memes to show their reactions.
The following are a few of the top game-related memes:
Dhoni will hit runs but CSK will lose the match pic.twitter.com/UGGRtVxIs1
— Pakchikpak Raja Babu (@HaramiParindey) April 8, 2025MI and CSK retiring out set batsmen pic.twitter.com/QZWi9xiPcf
— Sagar (@sagarcasm) April 8, 2025IPL teams stealing 2 points from CSK like.#IPL2025 | #CSKvsPBKS pic.twitter.com/A6j6FPJuiv
— Rajabets 🇮🇳👑 (@rajabetsindia) April 8, 2025Scenes at 10.59 pm pic.twitter.com/WC55BuS3ur
— 𝐒𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐲𝐚𝐬𝐌𝐒𝐃𝐢𝐚𝐧™ (@Itzshreyas07) April 8, 2025Dhoni fans apni alag masti me rehte hai#CSKvsPBKS pic.twitter.com/Lfu2yy0Dx4
— Rajabets 🇮🇳👑 (@rajabetsindia) April 8, 2025CSK in last over be like pic.twitter.com/DWstKdVlGH
— Sagar (@sagarcasm) April 8, 2025Everything is wrong in this franchise except that 44 year old farmer from Ranchi. pic.twitter.com/zRTPZR4sqp
— Selfless⁴⁵ (@SelflessCricket) April 8, 2025😭😭😭 #CSKvsPBKS pic.twitter.com/047tiTW4b2
— Raja Babu (@GaurangBhardwa1) April 8, 2025— Out Of Context Cricket (@GemsOfCricket) April 8, 2025 When defeat looks certain so you try to save net run rate. Story of CSK so far. #PBKSvCSK #IPL2025 pic.twitter.com/jGFmBJ2iVz
— Wasim Jaffer (@WasimJaffer14) April 8, 2025“This is going to be the template, irrespective of any ground we play at”- PBKS Captain Shreyas Iyer on Victory Over CSK
Punjab captain Shreyas Iyer said his team would stick to the same aggressive batting pattern moving ahead at the post-match presentation. Iyer evaluated PBKS’s performance and stated:
“Absolutely this is going to be the template, irrespective of any ground we play at. It was scintillating to see Priyansh bat today. It was out of the world. When I had a chat with him in the last game, he was a bit timid, today he said I was just backing my instincts which were free flowing. Today he kept going and it was one of the top knocks I have seen in IPL.”
Shreyas Iyer
Iyer continued:
“Not using Chahal was a tactical call, Dube was playing well with Conway. I felt my instincts were that pacers into the surface were better options. See we were talking that we haven’t played our best game. We have to be fearless while fielding, have to do some group fielding session and come back stronger but it’s important winning games which was the case today.”
Shreyas Iyer
On Wednesday, April 9, Gujarat Titans (GT) and Rajasthan Royals (RR) will square off in the forthcoming IPL 2025 encounter at Ahmedabad’s Narendra Modi Stadium.
