CSK vs RCB, IPL 2025: The 8th match of the Indian Premier League 2025 will be played between Chennai Super Kings and Royal Challengers Bangalore on Friday. This match will be played at Chennai's home ground MA Chidambaram Stadium. Chennai defeated Mumbai Indians by 4 wickets in their first match. At the same time, Bangalore defeated Kolkata Knight Riders by 7 wickets in their first match.

Chennai Super Kings have experienced Ravindra Jadeja, who has been part of the team for a long time. While star spinner Ravichandran Ashwin has also joined the team again. Chennai's team has also included Afghanistan's left-arm wrist spinner Noor Ahmed in the team, who performed well against Mumbai Indians. Chennai's traditional pitch will be seen in this match as well and the RCB batsmen led by Kohli will have to improve their game to beat the experienced bowling attack.

Facing spin has not always been Virat Kohli's batting strong point, but in the last two years he has shown a lot of improvement in this department. The main reason for this change is his willingness to play more sweeps and slog sweeps against spinners and Kohli will have to showcase all his expertise in the match on Friday evening. Virat Kohli will also need support from batsmen like Phil Salt, captain Rajat Patidar, Liam Livingstone, Jitesh Sharma.

CSK vs RCB Head-to-Head Records

If we talk about the head to head record between CSK and RCB in IPL, 33 matches have been played between the two teams so far, out of which Chennai Super Kings has managed to win 21 matches while Royal Challengers Bangalore has won only 11 matches. RCB had won the match played in the MA Chidambaram Stadium in the 2008 season, since then they have played 8 matches against CSK here and have faced defeat in all.

Chennai Super Kings Squads: Ruturaj Gaikwad (c), MS Dhoni, Ravindra Jadeja, Shivam Dube, Matheesha Pathirana, Noor Ahmad, Ravichandran Ashwin, Devon Conway, Syed Khaleel Ahmed, Rachin Ravindra, Rahul Tripathi, Vijay Shankar, Sam Curran, Shaik Rashid, Anshul Kamboj, Mukesh Choudhary, Deepak Hooda, Gurjanpreet Singh, Nathan Ellis, Jamie Overton, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Ramakrishnan Ghosh, Shreyas Gopal, Vansh Bedi, Andre Siddarth.

Royal Challengers Bengaluru Squads: Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Rajat Patidar (c), Virat Kohli, Yash Dayal, Josh Hazlewood, Phil Salt, Jitesh Sharma, Liam Livingstone, Rasikh Salam, Suyash Sharma, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Swapnil Singh, Tim David, Romario Shepherd, Nuwan Thushara, Manoj Bhandage, Jacob Bethel, Devdutt Padikkal, Swastik Chhikara, Lungi Ngidi, Abhinandan Singh, Mohit Rathee.

MA Chidambaram Stadium Pitch Report

The pitch of Chennai's M.A. Chidambaram Stadium traditionally proves to be helpful for spinners. Batsmen have to work hard to score runs on this pitch, because the ball does not come on the bat well. This pitch is considered balanced. Meaning a little balance between bat and ball. The second match of IPL 2025 will be played here. In the first match, spinners bowled 25 out of 40 overs (14 out of 20 overs in the second innings). They got little but enough assistance from the pitch. In 7 out of the last 10 matches played here (4 out of the last 5 matches), the teams chose to chase the target and won.