RCB vs PBKS Final Match Highlights: Bengaluru won by 6 runs

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Last updated on Jun 04, 2025 12:06 PM
RCB vs PBKS Final Match Highlights: Bengaluru won by 6 runs

IPL Final Highlights: Royal Challengers Bangalore have won the final of IPL 2025 against Punjab Kings by 6 runs. With this, RCB finally won the IPL trophy after a long gap of 17 years.

Telling you about the match, after losing the toss and batting first, Royal Challengers Bangalore scored 190 runs in 20 overs. Veteran batsman Virat Kohli played a brilliant innings of 43 runs for the team.

After this, when Punjab Kings came out to chase the target of 191 runs given by RCB, they could only score 184 runs in 20 overs and had to face defeat by a narrow margin of 6 runs in the match. Let's see the highlights of the match and know about the turning point of this match

RCB vs PBKS Final Match Highlights

RCB First Innings

  • Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) batted first against Punjab Kings (PBKS) and scored 190 runs for 9 wickets. Despite being in a strong position at one time, their innings faltered in the last overs. The team lost 4 wickets in scoring the last 19 runs, while Arshdeep gave only 3 runs in the last over, while 3 wickets fell. Virat Kohli scored 43 runs in 35 balls. Kohli also made the record of hitting the most fours in IPL history in this match, surpassing Shikhar Dhawan's record of 768 fours and completing 769 fours.
  • In the packed Narendra Modi Stadium, Punjab Kings bowlers kept taking wickets from the beginning and did not give RCB batsmen a chance to play freely. Virat Kohli was the top scorer for RCB, but he batted slowly. Kohli scored 43 runs in 35 balls with the help of 3 fours. However, his innings remained relatively a bit slow. Jitesh Sharma was the only batsman who scored at a strike rate of more than 200. He scored 24 runs in 10 balls, which included 2 fours and 2 sixes.

PBKS Second Innings

  • When Punjab Kings came out to chase the target of 191 runs set by Royal Challengers Bangalore, openers Priyansh Arya (24) and Prabhsimran Singh (26) gave the team a good start by sharing 43 runs for the first wicket.
  • After both the wickets fell in the 8th over, the responsibility of scoring runs quickly was taken up by wicketkeeper batsman Josh Inglis, who played an innings of 39 runs in 23 balls with the help of 1 four and 4 sixes.
  • Punjab, which lost three wickets for 79 runs in the match, was sitting in the driver's seat while chasing the runs, then the RCB bowlers bowled brilliantly in the middle order and brought the team back into the match. In the 10th over, the in-form Shreyas Iyer (1) was caught by Jitesh Sharma off Romario Shepherd, and then Josh Inglis was caught by Krunal Pandya in the 13th over.

Playing 11

Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) Confirmed Playing 11: 1. Philip Salt(WK), 2. Virat Kohli, 3. Mayank Agarwal, 4. Rajat Patidar, 5. Liam Livingstone, 6. Jitesh Sharma(WK)(C), 7. Romario Shepherd, 8. Krunal Pandya, 9. Bhuvneshwar Kumar, 10. Yash Dayal, 11. Josh Hazlewood

Punjab Kings (PBKS) Confirmed Playing 11: 1. Priyansh Arya, 2. Josh Inglis(WK), 3. Shreyas Iyer(C), 4. Nehal Wadhera, 5. Shashank Singh, 6. Marcus Stoinis, 7. Azmatullah Omarzai, 8. Kyle Jamieson, 9. Vyshak Vijaykumar, 10. Yuzvendra Chahal, 11. Arshdeep Singh

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