MS Dhoni Takes 19th Ball For First Boundary Longest Any Batter has taken in ipl 2025

Chennai: Delhi Capitals have given the fort of Chennai Super Kings. Delhi completed the hat -trick of victory in IPL 2025 by defeating Chennai by 25 runs on Saturday at his own ground with KL Rahul’s excellent innings. Former captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni landed in the middle overs but he did not show the necessary boom that Chennai needed. The entire family including Dhoni’s parents was present in the stadium but Dhoni could not reach the team to the floor of victory.

Dhoni’s name unwanted record

Mahendra Singh Dhoni went off to bat in the 11th over. He set his first boundary against Mukesh Kumar in the 18th over. He sent the fourth ball of the over with sixes. The first over from this ball was playing 14 runs off 18 balls. He set the first boundary on his 19th ball. After playing the most balls in IPL 2025, Dhoni has also become the first batsman to set up the first boundary.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni finally remained unbeaten after scoring 30 runs. In his innings of 26 balls, he hit 1 four and a six. Vijay Shankar and Dhoni shared an unbeaten 84 off 57 balls for the sixth wicket. Dhoni has batting in 3 innings so far this season. It has scored 76 runs from his bat.

What happened in the match?

Thanks to Rahul’s best half -century innings of 77 runs, Delhi Capitals scored a challenging score of 183 for six in 20 overs and stopped Chennai for 158 runs for five wickets. The Chennai batsmen continued to perform poorly and faced the third consecutive defeat in four matches.

After a poor start, Vijay Shankar hit five fours and a six in 69 off 54 balls for Chennai. Rachin Ravindra three, Davon Conway 13, captain Rituraj Gaikwad five, Ravindra Jadeja were dismissed for two runs. Vipraj Nigam took two wickets for 27 runs for Delhi, while Mitchell Starc, Mukesh Kumar and Kuldeep Yadav got one wicket each.