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The win helped CSK consolidate the second spot with 15 points from 12 games, while DC remain at the bottom with just eight points from 11 matches.
Rahul was ruled out of the remaining IPL season and the WTC final after he picked up an injury while fielding during a match against Royal Challengers Bangalore.
Both teams got a point each.
There should be a concerted effort to guide and nurture players who show potential at the first-class level and mould them into full-fledged members of the national side.
Royals made 202/5 with opener Yashasvi Jaiswal smashing 77 off 43 balls. CSK could manage only 170/6 in their reply.
Rahane's comeback after 15 months was on predictable lines after Shreyas Iyer's back injury ruled him out of the grand finale.
Chasing a stiff target of 236, KKR could manage only 186/8. Ajinkya Rahane took Eden Gardens by storm with a sensational 29-ball unbeaten 71 while Shivam Dube muscled his way to another scintillating half-century in CSK's ' imposing 235/4.
CSK overhauled the target of 135 in 18.4 overs to notch up their fourth win from six games.
Fighting fifties from Glenn Maxwell and Faf du Plessis went in vain as CSK won by 8 runs.
Rahane rolled back the clock, reaching his half-century off only 19 balls, to record the fastest 50 in IPL 2023.