IPL 2025 Finals: RCB vs PBKS – RCB Lifts Their First IPL Trophy in 18 Years
The TATA IPL 2025 Finals were held at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on Tuesday. Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) won the game against Punjab Kings (PBKS) by 6 runs.
Initially, PBKS won the toss and elected to bowl first. In the first innings, RCB batters struggled to form a partnership due to the regular loss of wickets. But the flow of runs was in decent form. RCB batsmen individually didn’t score the highest, but the team’s score was sufficient to defend. RCB scored 190 runs in their allotted overs for the loss of 9 wickets.
Exceptional bowling efforts came from the PBKS bowlers Arshdeep Singh and Kyle Jamieson, where both took 3 wickets each.
Meanwhile, in the second inning, the PBKS got a good start. Until the fifth over, PBKS openers were playing explosive batting, but RCB bowler Josh Hazlewood gave the breakthrough to the innings by taking Priyansh Arya’s wicket. Then the RCB bowlers slowly started to dominate the PBKS batsmens.
PBKS lost thier crucial wickets and the dot ball percentage started increasing. In the last, Shashank Singh arrived and started his explosive batting, but it was too late, and he also could not complete it within 20 overs. Outstanding bowling performance came from the RCB bowlers, where Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Krunal Pandya took 2 wickets, and others also dominated with their performance.
With this victory, RCB won their First IPL Title in the history of 18 years of IPL in IPL 2025. PBKS remained as the runner-up of the IPL 2025.
RCB vs PBKS Match Details
| Match | Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings, Match 31, IPL 2025 |
| Venue | Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad |
| Date & Time | Tuesday, June 3, 7:30 PM |
| Result | RCB won by 6 runs |
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Match Scorecard
Royal Challengers Bengaluru Batting Performance
| Batting | Dismissal | R | B | M | 4s | 6s | SR |
| Phil Salt | c Iyer b Jamieson | 16 | 9 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 177.77 |
| Virat Kohli | c & b Azmatullah Omarzai | 43 | 35 | 69 | 3 | 0 | 122.85 |
| Mayank Agarwal | c Arshdeep Singh b Chahal | 24 | 18 | 22 | 2 | 1 | 133.33 |
| Rajat Patidar (c) | lbw b Jamieson | 26 | 16 | 17 | 1 | 2 | 162.5 |
| Liam Livingstone | lbw b Jamieson | 25 | 15 | 35 | 0 | 2 | 166.66 |
| Jitesh Sharma † | b Vyshak | 24 | 10 | 21 | 2 | 2 | 240 |
| Romario Shepherd | lbw b Arshdeep Singh | 17 | 9 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 188.88 |
| Krunal Pandya | c Iyer b Arshdeep Singh | 4 | 5 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 80 |
| Bhuvneshwar Kumar | c Arya b Arshdeep Singh | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 50 |
| Yash Dayal | not out | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| Extras | (w 9) | 9 | 20 Ov | ||||
| Total | 190/9 | (RR: 9.50) | |||||
Fall of wickets (Royal Challengers Bengaluru)
1-18 (Phil Salt, 1.4 ov), 2-56 (Mayank Agarwal, 6.2 ov), 3-96 (Rajat Patidar, 10.5 ov), 4-131 (Virat Kohli, 14.5 ov), 5-167 (Liam Livingstone, 16.5 ov), 6-171 (Jitesh Sharma, 17.4 ov), 7-188 (Romario Shepherd, 19.2 ov), 8-189 (Krunal Pandya, 19.4 ov), 9-190 (Bhuvneshwar Kumar, 19.6 ov)
Bowling Performance (Punjab Kings)
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | ECON | 0s | 4s | 6s | WD | NB |
| Arshdeep Singh | 4 | 0 | 40 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Kyle Jamieson | 4 | 0 | 48 | 3 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 0 |
| Azmatullah Omarzai | 4 | 0 | 35 | 1 | 8.75 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| Vijaykumar Vyshak | 4 | 0 | 30 | 1 | 7.5 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Yuzvendra Chahal | 4 | 0 | 37 | 1 | 9.25 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Punjab Kings Batting Performance
| Batting | Dismissal | R | B | M | 4s | 6s | SR |
| Priyansh Arya | c Salt b Hazlewood | 24 | 19 | 24 | 4 | 0 | 126.31 |
| Prabhsimran Singh | c Kumar b Pandya | 26 | 22 | 42 | 0 | 2 | 118.18 |
| Josh Inglis † | c Livingstone b Pandya | 39 | 23 | 35 | 1 | 4 | 169.56 |
| Shreyas Iyer (c) | c †Sharma b Shepherd | 1 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 50 |
| Nehal Wadhera | c Pandya b Kumar | 15 | 18 | 32 | 0 | 1 | 83.33 |
| Shashank Singh | not out | 61 | 30 | 38 | 3 | 6 | 203.33 |
| Marcus Stoinis | c Yash Dayal b Kumar | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 300 |
| Azmatullah Omarzai | c sub (MS Bhandage) b Yash Dayal | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 50 |
| Kyle Jamieson | not out | 0 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Extras | (lb 8, w 3) | 11 | 20 Ov | ||||
| Total | 184/7 | (RR: 9.20) | |||||
Fall of Wickets (Punjab Kings)
Fall of wickets: 1-43 (Priyansh Arya, 4.6 ov), 2-72 (Prabhsimran Singh, 8.3 ov), 3-79 (Shreyas Iyer, 9.4 ov), 4-98 (Josh Inglis, 12.1 ov), 5-136 (Nehal Wadhera, 16.2 ov), 6-142 (Marcus Stoinis, 16.4 ov), 7-145 (Azmatullah Omarzai, 17.2 ov)
Bowling Performance (Royal Challengers Bengaluru)
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | ECON | 0s | 4s | 6s | WD | NB |
| Bhuvneshwar Kumar | 4 | 0 | 38 | 2 | 9.5 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Yash Dayal | 3 | 0 | 18 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Josh Hazlewood | 4 | 0 | 54 | 1 | 13.5 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 0 |
| Krunal Pandya | 4 | 0 | 17 | 2 | 4.25 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Suyash Sharma | 2 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 9.5 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Romario Shepherd | 3 | 0 | 30 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
