Chennai Super Kings will square off against defending champions Kolkata Knight in the 25th match of the ongoing IPL 2025 at the MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai on Friday.

CSK has suffered a huge blow as their captain Ruturaj Gaikwad has been ruled out of the rest of the season due to a fractured elbow and MS Dhoni will return as a skipper. The five-time champions are struggling with a solitary win in five games.

On the other hand, KKR has been continuously chopping and changing their batting order and they would look to find more consistency in their batting line-up as they have managed only two wins in five games.

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KKR captain Ajinkya Rahane needs five fours to complete 500 boundaries in the IPL.

Rinku Singh needs eight runs to complete 1000 runs in the tournament.

Moeen Ali needs five fours to complete 100 boundaries in the IPL.

Deepak Hooda needs 28 runs to reach the 1500-run mark in the IPL. He also needs three fours to complete 100 boundaries in the tournament.

Vijay Shankar needs three sixes to complete 50 maximums in the tournament.

Shivam Dube needs seven fours to complete 100 boundaries in the IPL.

Kolkata Knight Riders Squad: Quinton de Kock(w), Sunil Narine, Ajinkya Rahane(c), Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Manish Pandey, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Harshit Rana, Spencer Johnson, Varun Chakaravarthy, Anrich Nortje, Vaibhav Arora, Anukul Roy, Luvnith Sisodia, Moeen Ali, Rovman Powell, Mayank Markande, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Chetan Sakariya

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