PBKS vs RCB: RCB performed brilliantly in batting after bowling
IPL 2025, PBKS vs RCB: The first Qualifier-1 match of the ongoing season of IPL was played today on 29 May between Punjab Kings and Royal Challengers Bangalore in Mullanpur. Let us tell you that in this match, RCB won by 8 wickets on the basis of all-rounder performance and made it to the finals for the fourth time in IPL history.
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PBKS vs RCB: Talking about the match, RCB first bowled brilliantly, stopped Shreyas and company at just 101 runs, and then achieved the target very easily by losing 2 wickets. For RCB, opener Phil Salt played a stormy innings of 56* runs in 27 balls with the help of 6 fours and 3 sixes.
PBKS vs RCB, Qualifier-1 match status
PBKS vs RCB: If we tell you about the match, RCB won the toss and decided to bowl. After this, Punjab Kings were bowled out for just 101 runs in 14.1 overs against the amazing bowling of RCB in the match.
Earlier, Priyansh Arya (7) and Prabhsimran Singh (18), who came to open the batting for the team, failed to give a big start. The team got the first blow at 9 runs. After this, the team’s batting collapsed like a pack of cards and wickets started falling one after the other.
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Inform Josh English 4, Shreyas Iyer 2 and Nehal Wadhera returned to the pavilion by the 7th over after scoring 8 runs. Marcus Stoinis played a quick innings of 26 runs in 17 balls, but he did not get support from any other player. Shashank Singh 4 and impact player Mushir Khan (0) failed to score big.
On the other hand, all the bowlers from RCB bowled brilliantly. Josh Hazlewood and Suyash Sharma got 3-3 wickets. Apart from this, Yash Dayal got 2 and Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Romario Shepherd got 1-1 wickets.
After this, when RCB came out to chase the easy target of 102 runs given by Punjab, it achieved this target very easily by losing 2 wickets in 10 overs. For the team, Virat Kohli scored 12 and Mayank Agarwal scored 19 runs, while Phil Salt remained unbeaten after scoring 56* and Rajat Patidar 15*.