Pbks vs rcb match prediction today: The first qualifier (PBKS vs RCB Qualifier 1) will be played between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Punjab Kings in IPL 2025 today. The match will be played at the stadium in Mullanpur and today a team is scheduled to reach the final, which has never won the IPL title. On one side there is Punjab, which has not played the final since 2014, on the other hand RCB has also not been able to enter the title collision after 2016. Know who can win the first qualifier match based on data here?
Head to head record
So far, Royal Challengers Bangalore and Punjab Kings have been face to face 35 times in the IPL. Of these, Punjab has won 18 times and Bengaluru has won on 17 occasions. In the current season, the two teams defeated each other once. Talking about the last 5 matches of both of them in the IPL, RCB has won four times. Both teams have been matching only one match on the grounds of Mullanpur, in which RCB was victorious.
Both teams record in playoffs
RCB has played 15 matches in the playoffs so far, out of which it won only 5 times and had to face defeat 10 times. At the same time, Punjab has played only 4 matches in the playoffs, out of which it has to lose three matches. On the basis of all the data, RCB is seen going to the direct final.
Punjab, RCB played in-form play with fearlessness
Punjab Kings have played fearless way in Shreyas Iyer’s captaincy and coaching of Ricky Ponting. Shreyas Iyer is the only player Shreyas Iyer, who won the finals in 2020 under his captaincy, to win the Delhi Capitals, winning KKR after 10 years in 2024 and now Punjab Kings to the final after 11 years. Her pairing with Ricky Ponting is very much frozen. Punjab got only 4 defeats in 14 matches in the league stage.
On the other hand, RCB is full of in-form players. Virat Kohli has so far scored 602 runs including 8 fifty in 13 matches. In the last match, Jitesh Sharma is playing a stormy innings of 85 runs in just 33 balls. Josh Hazlewood can return to the Bengaluru team, who has taken 18 wickets in the tournament so far. Apart from them, Krunal Pandya and Bhuvneshwar Kumar have been the ‘Silent Hero’ of RCB with 15 and 14 wickets respectively.
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