IPL 2025 PBKS VS RCB: Royal Challengers Bangalore today defeated Punjab Kings by 8 wickets in the qualifier-1 of IPL and made it to the finals of IPL after 9 years. RCB will now play the final in Ahmedabad on 3 June. RCB opener batsman Phil Salt played an unbeaten innings of 56 runs. Josh Hazlewood and Suyash Sharma took 3-3 wickets.
On Thursday, Bengaluru won the toss at Maharaja Yadavindra Singh Stadium in New Chandigarh and chose bowling. Punjab Kings played only 14.1 overs. The entire team of Punjab collapsed 101 runs. Marcus Stoynis scored 26 runs. Yash Dayal got 2 wickets. Chasing the target, the RCB team won the loss of 2 wickets in 10 overs. Captain Rajat Patidar won the team by hitting a six.
Bengaluru has made it to the final of the IPL for the fourth time. The team played the last title match in 2016, but was the runner-up. RCB will now play the final in Ahmedabad on 3 June. On the other hand, Punjab Kings will take on the winner of Eliminator in Qualifier-2 on 1 June. The eliminator will take place between Mumbai and Gujarat on Friday.
Playing-11 of both teams
Punjab Kings: Shreyas Iyer (Captain), Priyansh Arya, Prabhasimran Singh, Josh English (wicketkeeper), Nehal Wadhera, Shashank Singh, Marcus Stoynis, Ajmatullah Omrajai, Harpreet Brar, Kyle Jaimisson and Arshdeep Singh.
Royal Challengers Bangalore: Rajat Patidar (captain), Phil Soult, Virat Kohli, Liam Livingston, Jitesh Sharma (wicketkeeper), Romario Shepherd, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Yash Dayal, Josh Hazlewood and Suyash Sharma.