RCB Wins IPL Trophy: Royal Challengers Bangalore has won the IPL title by finishing the 18 -year wait. Virat Kohli’s team RCB defeated Punjab Kings (PBKS) by 6 runs in the final of IPL 2025. RCB’s biggest hero Kohli scored the most runs for his team in the final. Krunal Pandya bowled amazing and won the Player of the Match award. This is Virat Kohli’s third trophy in 11 months. He won the T20 World Cup in June last year and the ICC Champions Trophy in March this year. Look at the interesting thing that Virat was not so emotional even after winning the ICC Trophy, as it was by winning the IPL on Tuesday night. This victory was not only the emotional moment for Kohli, but also for RCB fans. It has been 10 special things of IPL 2025 finals.
Royal Challengers Bangalore won the IPL title for the first time. She had earlier reached the finals of 2009, 2011 and 2016 but was away from the title. This time he made no mistake. RCB scored a 190/9 runs played at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. After this, Punjab Kings were stopped at the score of 184/7.
2. Virat Kohli remains the top scorer
Virat Kohli scored the most 43 runs (35 balls) for his team. The husky trolls started trolling ‘King’ by calling Kohli’s innings slow even before the match was over. But when the match was over, it was found out what was the importance of Virat’s innings. Virat was waiting for this victory for a long time. As soon as the team won, Virat Kohli sat on the field emotionally.
When Virat Kohli was dismissed in the 15th over, RCB’s score was 131 runs. It seemed that the team would not be able to score to win. But Jitesh Sharma (24 runs, 10 balls), Liam Livingstone (25 runs, 15 balls) and Romario Shepherd (17 runs, 9 balls) scored a fast run in the last over and took the team to 190 runs.
4. Arshdeep and Jamison shock 6 wickets
For Punjab Kings, fast bowlers Arshdeep Singh (3/40) and Kyle Jamison (3/48) dismissed six batters of RCB. It was amazing for his bowling that RCB could not reach 200 runs. Passers of Punjab harassed all the batters including ShortPich and Slower Ball.
Punjab Kings had scored 136 runs for 4 wickets at one time. Then he needed 55 runs in 29 balls to win. From here, Punjab seemed to be a contender for victory but Shreyas Iyer’s team came under pressure due to the dismissal of Nehal Vadhera (15), Marcus Stionis (6) and Ajmatullah Omarjai (1).
6. Krunal Pandya overturned
After scoring 190 runs, Krunal Pandya did the best performance for RCB to bowl. He took two wickets for just 17 runs in 4 overs spell. He dismissed Josh English (39) and Prabhasimran Singh (26). Krunal was adjudged Player of the Match for this performance.
West Indies Romario Shepherd once again removed RCB from crisis. He dismissed Captain Shreyas Iyer (1) and gave a blow to Punjab Kings that he could not recover till the end. This was the moment when RCB awakened confidence that now she can win the match.
8. Bhuvi’s double explosion
The double blast of Bhuvneshwar Kumar (2/38) in the 16th over also broke the dreams of Punjab Kings. When Bhuvi came to bowl in the 17th over, Punjab’s score was 136 runs for 4 wickets. By the time he finished the over, the score was 144 runs for 6 wickets. Bhuvi dismissed Nehal Vadhera and Marcus Stoynis in this over.
The captaincy of Rajat Patidar was also important in this victory of RCB. When it was believed that 190 runs were not worthy of winning, then Patidar captained a great captaincy. He maintained his plan without pressure. The bowlers were bowled at the right time. As a result, when there were 5 overs left in the innings of Punjab, Bhuvi-Hazelwood-Yash Dayal had 2-2 overs left. That is, they had enough options, which led to the victory of RCB.
10. Virat-AB and Gayle celebrated together
This title win of Virat Kohli was celebrated by his two old colleagues AB de Villiers and Chris Gayle. Both veterans appeared in RCB’s jersey after winning. Virat, AB and Gayle also picked up the trophy together. Virat said that both these veterans had given everything to win this trophy. This celebration is incomplete without them. All three also raised a slogan- I Sala Cup Namdu, which means this cup is ours.
