Arya shines, Pant struggles: Five storylines halfway through IPL

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New Delhi: The Indian Premier League season has reached half a route this week as 10 teams are fighting for the top of the Okote Twenty20 Cricket Tournament. AFP Sports 2025 IPL’s early weekends highlight the five -Turking points:

– Chennai Slip –

Mahendra Singh Dhoni led the Chennai Super Kings in the past to the crown of five IPLs, but the veteran wicketkeeper batsman is struggling to impress the team at the bottom.

The 43 -year -old former India World Cup winning captain has been involved in the batting runs, but it seems that Omar has reduced his last powers and Chennai has won only one of his six matches. When Captain Rotorj Gaikwad was injured before his last game, Dhoni found himself guiding Chennai.

But he fell to 103 against Kolkata, who won by eight wickets with 59 balls. The team needs to find a spark soon, but the commentator and former Australian captain Michael Clarke noted on the G -star that Chennai’s view was “conservative” and it seems that his aim is to “avoid a big defeat”.

– Top Lifties –

Left spinners have proved to be very important in overcoming the run rates in the middle overs, Chennai’s wrist of Afghanistan’s spinner Noor Ahmed has led the bowling charts with 12 wickets. Orthodox Lieutenant Sai Kishore has also been able to strangle the scoring rate for Gujarat Titans, as is the wrist spinner Kuldeep Yadav of the Delhi capital. Yadav selected two more dismissal to join the teen with a 10 -wicket mark on Sunday.

Another leftist wrist spinner, Vigneesh Pothor, emerged as a 24 -year -old child for the first time after taking three wickets for the Mumbai Indians, yet he has not yet played senior representative cricket for his state.

– Openers shine –

Priyanka Arya and partner left -handed Abhishek Sharma illuminated the IPL with their Social Blocking batting in the upper part of the order. Arya surrendered to a century of 39 balls for the Punjab Kings, which is the fourth fastest IPL century with nine sixes.

Four days later, Arya and Punjab were at the end when Abhishek reached 40 balls to reach his sleep. He went to 141 balls of 55 balls, with 14 fours and 10 sixes, when Sun Raiser Hyderabad overturned 245 in Punjab to pursue the second highest in IPL history.

Openers Sai Siddharson (Gujarat), Mitchell Marsh (Lucknow), Travis Head (Hyderabad), Phil Salt (Bangalore) and Virat Kohli (Bangalore) also started a tremendous start on the fifties.

– warm and cold stars –

Kohli has picked up his Champions Trophy form with 248 runs in the IPL, including three half -centuries, but fellow names Rohit Sharma and Rashabh Paint have struggled. India’s Test and ODI Captain Rohit have scored 0, 8, 13, 17 and 18 runs for Mumbai.

Lucknow sprayed a record $ 3.21 million for wicketkeeper batsman Pant, but has not seen any return in his money as his new captain has scored only 40 runs. Shriyas Air is a player who puts a larger auction – $ 3.17 million – by putting a hammer in 250 runs, which is not the best of 97 for Punjab.

– Rahul fired to Delhi –

Delhi’s capitals never won the IPL, but it made a strong start, led by the new Captain Xer Patel. Before falling to his first defeat on Sunday, he won four straightforward before being in the second place in Gujarat.

In the November auction, the capitals improved their team and the new setup is working with senior batsman KL Rahul, who scored 200 runs in his four presentations. Delhi made Lucknow by one wicket in its opening win, and X -ray pledged to “make it a habit” in his captaincy, in his captaincy, so that it is very important for the success of the IPL.

Another team, which is looking for the first IPL title, is Punjab under the Shariah Air, and is riding in the form of Arya, Ier and Parbsamran Singh, who has scored 133 runs, which has recorded three of the five matches.