New Delhi. Although the cricket match is played between two teams, but this time the IPL final will be played between two batsmen, RCB has high hopes for his season batsman Virat Kohli, while Punjab is looking very alive in its captain. Bangalore’s top scorer Virat is in great form. He has scored 614 runs in 14 matches so far. Kohli has put 8 fifty in the season. Punjab captain Shreyas Iyer is the highest scorer of the team. He has scored 603 runs at a strike rate of 175. In qualifier-2, he won the team by scoring an unbeaten 87 runs. This is going to happen after 9 years, when RCB will play the title match. Earlier, RCB played the finals in the years 2009, 2011 and 2016. It is a fact that this happened 11 times out of 14, when the Qualifier-1 winning team also won that season title. Captain Shreyas Iyer took the third IPL team to the final in 5 years. In 2020, Delhi played the final in his leadership, but lost. Then in 2024, he made Kolkata to the finals under his captaincy and also made the champion. Now, while captaining Punjab, he got the team in the playoffs and finals after 11 years. Punjab played the last final in 2014, but lost to Kolkata.
