IPL 2025 Winner: Royal Challengers Bangalore won their first trophy by defeating Punjab Kings by 6 runs in the final match of IPL 2025. Batting first, RCB scored 190 runs, in which Virat Kohli scored the highest innings of 43 runs. After this, Krunal Pandya put pressure on Punjab by putting an affordable spell. The Punjab team remained 7 runs away from the target, and a rapper benefited from as much crores as Punjab got the runner-up.
In this final match played at Narendra Modi Stadium, Hollywood’s popular rapper Drake bets on RCB’s victory. He hoped that the Royal Challengers Bangalore would win the title, so he betted $ 750,000 (Rs 6 crore 43 lakh) on this team captained by Rajat Patidar.
Speculated on RCB, 11 crores benefited
Drake himself had told about betting on social media, he also shared a screenshot of it. It went viral even before the final as he also bet on the victory of Kolkata Knight Riders last year. Then KKR won the title by defeating Hyderabad under the captaincy of Shreyas Iyer. Even then Drakes lived speculative and this time too.
Drake played a bet of Rs 6 crore 43 lakh on RCB’s victory. RCB won the trophy by defeating Punjab Kings in the final and Drake also won the bet. He has benefited by about Rs 11 crore.
Drake Bets on RCB 😭 pic.twitter.com/1abobnwtwf
– Kevin (@Imkevin149) June 2, 2025
Krunal Pandya became the hero of the final
The target of 191 at the Narendra Modi Stadium was not very big, Punjab Kings had easily achieved the target of 204 runs in the qualifier-2 on this ground. But in the final, RCB spinner Krunal Pandya played an important role, he did not allow the Punjab batsmen to score runs, which made him constantly pressurizing him. Krunal conceded only 17 runs in his 4 -overs spell and took 2 important wickets in the form of Prabhasimran Singh and Josh English.
