RCB: Let us tell you about the turning point of the match
Royal Challengers Bangalore won by 6 runs against Punjab Kings in the final of IPL 2025. With this, RCB finally won the IPL trophy after a long gap of 17 years.
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Telling you about the match, after losing the toss and batting first, Royal Challengers Bangalore scored 190 runs in 20 overs. Veteran batsman Virat Kohli played a brilliant innings of 43 runs for the team.
RCB: After this, when Punjab Kings came out to chase the target of 191 runs given by RCB, they could only score 184 runs in 20 overs and lost the match by a narrow margin of 6 runs. Let’s know about the turning point of this match:
RCB vs PBKS, Turning Point of IPL 2025 Final Match
When Punjab Kings came out to chase the target of 191 runs given by Royal Challengers Bangalore in the match, openers Priyansh Arya (24) and Prabhsimran Singh (26) gave the team a good start by sharing 43 runs for the first wicket.
After both the wickets fell in the 8th over, the responsibility of scoring runs quickly was taken up by wicketkeeper batsman Josh Inglis, who played an innings of 39 runs in 23 balls with the help of 1 four and 4 sixes in the match.
Punjab, which lost three wickets for 79 runs in the match, was in the driver’s seat while chasing the runs, when RCB bowlers bowled brilliantly in the middle order and brought the team back into the match. In the 10th over, in-form Shreyas Iyer (1) was caught out by Jitesh Sharma off Romario Shepherd, and then in the 13th over, Josh Inglis was caught out by Krunal Pandya.
After this, in the 17th over, Bhuvneshwar Kumar turned the match in RCB’s favour by dismissing Nehal Wadhera (15) and Marcus Stoinis (6). This bowling done by RCB in the middle overs proved to be the biggest turning point of the match. In the match, Bhuvneshwar and Krunal took 2-2 wickets, while Yash Dayal, Josh Hazlewood and Romario Shepherd got 1-1 success.
