IPL 2025 Points Table: Chennai at bottom despite win; Nicholas Pooran and Noor Ahmed top charts

On Monday Chennai Super Kings beat Lucknow Super Giants by five wickets. This is the first loss for Lucknow after winning three games in a row. Meanwhile, for Chennai, this is the second win in a row after losing five consecutive games.

Nicholas Pooran, the leading run-scorer coming into the game, gets to keep the orange cap despite the failure against the Super Kings. Meanwhile, though Noor Ahmed did not pick a wicket he bowled an economical spell and held the purple cap.

IPL 2025 points table

Rank	Team	P	W	L	NR	NRR	Points
1	GT	6	4	2	0	1.081	8
2	DC	5	4	1	0	0.899	8
3	RCB	6	4	2	0	0.672	8
4	LSG	7	4	3	0	0.086	8
5	KKR	6	3	3	0	0.803	6
6	PBKS	5	3	2	0	0.065	6
7	MI	6	2	4	0	0.104	4
8	RR	6	2	4	0	-0.838	4
9	SRH	6	2	4	0	-1.245	4
10	CSK	7	2	5	0	-1.276	4

IPL 2025 Orange cap race

Rank	Player Name	Team	Runs	Mat	Inn	NO	HS	AVG	SR
1	Nicholas Pooran	LSG	357	7	7	1	87*	59.5	208.77
2	Sai Sudharsan	GT	329	6	6	0	82	54.83	151.61
3	Mitchell Marsh	LSG	295	6	6	0	81	49.17	171.51
4	Shreyas Iyer	PBKS	250	5	5	2	97*	83.33	208.33

IPL 2025 purple cap race

Rank	Player Name	Team	WKTs	Mat	Inn	Ov	Runs	BBI	Avg	Econ
1	Noor Ahmad	CSK	12	7	7	24	171	18/4	14.25	7.12
2	Khaleel Ahmed	CSK	11	7	7	27	243	29/3	22.09	9
3	Shardul Thakur	LSG	11	6	6	21	218	34/4	19.81	10.38
4	Kuldeep Yadav	DC	10	5	5	20	112	22/3	11.2	5.6
5	Prasidh Krishna	GT	10	6	6	23	160	24/3	16	6.95