Former India player Aakash Chopra has picked the Chennai Super Kings as the favourites ahead of their IPL 2025 clash against the Rajasthan Royals. He also said that the five-time champions are playing slightly better cricket, and RR haven’t been able to finish games this season as well.

In a video shared on his YouTube channel ‘Aakash Chopra’, he said, “This is Rajasthan’s last game. They will be done and dusted. The only thing they will try to do is to win this match so that they might not finish at the bottom of the table because you don’t want the wooden spoon. I don’t have too many expectations from Rajasthan. In whose favor are the scales tilted in this match? You can go with Chennai because the team is playing slightly better. Rajasthan come really close, but they finish really far. That’s been their story.”

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Reflecting on RR’s batting, Aakash Chopra also added that it might be time to bid goodbye to Shimron Hetmyer as well.

“When I look at it from the batting perspective, I feel it’s probably time to say tata, bye-bye to Shimron Hetmyer because the ₹11 crore you have spent hasn’t been of any use. You will expect Sanju Samson to score runs in this match. He likes the Delhi ground as well. Vaibhav Suryavanshi and Yashasvi Jaiswal should end the tournament on a strong note. Dhruv Jurel is scoring runs, but is unable to finish. It means he is not the finished article yet. He has got the potential, but does not look a finished article,” Aakash Chopra concluded.