Chennai Super Kings Ends Season on High Note Thanks to Brevis, Mhatre, and Urvil's Heroics

At the start of IPL 2025, players like Dewald Brevis, Ayush Mhatre, and Urvil Patel were not even in the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) squad. In CSK's final game of the season, the trio, who were selected as midseason replacements, provided hope that the future could be just as bright. Brevis scored a 19-ball half-century in Ahmedabad on a hot afternoon after 17-year-old Mhatre and local boy Urvil set the stage with blistering 30s. As a result, CSK won the IPL 2025 with a score of 230 for 5, their highest total ever. Gujarat Titans lost three wickets in the powerplay for the first time this season as they chased a steep target, revealing their weak side. They were dealt an 83-run defeat by CSK, which broke through it. After Sunday's loss, GT is now at risk of being eliminated by two of the other three playoff teams. The initial attack Mhatre, the youngest player ever to play for CSK, is a goal-setter. In the first over, Mohammed Siraj pumped him straight of mid-on for four after he bowled a faultless back-of-a-length delivery on top of the stumps. He clattered left-arm seamer Arshad Khan in the subsequent over, resulting in a sequence of 6, 6, 4, 4, 6. Mhatre had hit 33 off 12 balls by the end of that over. With a slower variation, Prasidh Krishna ended Mhatre's innings with 34 off 17 balls in the fourth over. CSK were not short of attacking enterprise, though. Together with Devon Conway, Urvil took CSK to 68 for 1, their joint-highest powerplay score this season, with a six off Siraj that was reminiscent of M Vijay. Urvil also took on the spin of R Sai Kishore and Rashid Khan, despite his domestic reputation as a pace-hitter entering the IPL. He reached 37 off 19 balls before Sai Kishore mishit and changed his angle to over the wicket. In the beginning, Conway was calm, but he burst into action when he hit two sixes off Rashid before the wristspinner bowled him for 52 off 35 balls in the 14th over. M Shahrukh Khan's part-time spin had already resulted in Shivam Dube's dismissal at that point. Brevis's assault When Brevis drilled Shahrukh down the ground for four, he was in fifth gear, and he stayed there until the end. With a rare combination of explosive power and T20 invention, which CSK lacked earlier in the season, he faced 23 balls and sent nine of them to or over the boundary. Brevis used his reach and tonked the ball over Rashid's head for six when he threw one up wide of off. His figures were further harmed when he reverse-lapped Arshad for four, leaving his jaws on the floor. On his way to a 19-ball fifty, he smashed Siraj for two sixes and a four in the penultimate over of the innings. CSK had reached 230 by the time he was run out with the final ball of the innings. Brevis gave up 225 runs in six innings at an average of 37.50 and a strike rate of 180.00 at the end of the season. Chennai Super Kings 230 for 5 (Brevis 57, Conway 52, Prasidh 2-22) beat Gujarat Titans 147 (Sai Sudharsan 41, Kamboj 3-13, Noor 3-21) by 83 runs