Royal Challengers Bengaluru go top of the table after defeating Chennai Super Kings

IPL 2025 Points Table After IPL Today Match Update: Chennai Super Kings failed to play spoiler to Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s march to the semifinals when they were defeated the Rajat Patidar-led team 2 runs. CSK were cruising towards a victory after Ayush Mhatre’s blering 94 and Ravindra Jadeja’s half century before they were pegged back when Lungi Ndidi snapped up the 17-year-old and Dewald Brevis in back to back balls. RCB did not let up as Jadeja and MS Dhoni failed to drag CSK over the line.
Thus, RCB went to the top of the table with 16 points while CSK stayed put in the last position. Earlier, Virat Kohli slammed 62 while Jacob Bethell scored an important half century before Romario Shepherd scored the joint second-fastest half century in 14 balls in IPL hory helping his team reach 214 runs.
On Friday, Gujarat Titans went back to winning ways when they defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad 38 runs to go to 2nd in the IPL points table. Meanwhile, SRH stayed rooted to the 9th spot as their playoffs dreams grew dimmer. Abhishek Sharma scored a blering 74 but it wasn’t enough to help his team overhaul GT’s target as SRH lost wickets at regular intervals.
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IPL 2025 points table after RCB vs CSK

Rank
Team
P
W
L
NR
NRR
POINTS

1
RCB
11
8
3
0
0.482
16

2
MI
11
7
4
0
1.274
14

3
GT
10
7
3
0
0.867
14

4
PBKS
10
6
3
1
0.199
13

5
DC
10
6
4
0
0.362
12

6
LSG
10
5
5
0
-0.325
10

7
KKR
10
4
5
1
0.271
9

8
RR
11
3
8
0
-0.780
6

9
SRH
10
3
7
0
-1.192
6

10
CSK
11
2
9
0
-1.117
4

Orange Cap top 5 after RCB vs CSK
Virat Kohli made his way on top of the Orange Cap standings after his 62 vs the Chennai Super Kings, leapfrogging Gujarat Titans Sai Sudharsan. MI’s Suryakumar Yadav and GT’s Jos Buttler and Shubman Gill round off the top 5.

Rank
Player Name
Team
Runs
Mat
Inn
NO
HS
AVG
SR

1
Virat Kohli
RCB
505
11
11
3
73*
63.13
143.46

1
Sai Sudharsan
GT
504
10
10
0
82
50.40
154.12

2
Suryakumar Yadav
MI
475
11
11
4
68*
67.86
172.72

3
Jos Buttler
GT
470
10
10
4
97*
78.33
169.06

4
Shubman Gill
GT
465
10
10
1
90
51.67
162.02

Purple Cap top 5 after RCB vs CSK
The Purple Cap race also witnessed a change with Krunal Pandya breaking into the top 5 after Bengaluru’s clash with Chennai on Saturday.

Rank
Player Name
Team
WKTs
Mat
Inn
Ov
Runs
BBI
Avg
Econ

1
Prasidh Krishna
GT
19
10
10
39
292
41/4
15.36
7.48

2
Josh Hazlewood
RCB
18
10
10
36.5
311
33/4
17.27
8.44

3
Noor Ahmad
CSK
16
11
11
39
314
18/4
19.62
8.05

4
Trent Boult
MI
16
11
11
38.1
336
26/4
21.00
8.80

5
Krunal Pandya
RCB
14
11
11
35
300
45/4
21.42
8.57