Newspunjab
4 June 2025
Royal Challengers Bangalore have won the IPL 2025 trophy by defeating Punjab Kings by 6 runs. RCB has become the champion for the first time in the 18-year history of IPL. This is also the first time that an IPL final has been played in Ahmedabad and the team batting first has won. RCB had scored 190 runs while batting first, in reply Punjab team could only score 184 runs.
Punjab Kings were given a target of 191 runs. To chase this big target, Punjab brought in 2 uncapped players in the opening. Priyansh Arya and Prabhsimran Singh gave their team a fast start, but Priyansh was out after scoring 24 runs. Phil Salt took a brilliant catch and sent Priyansh back to the pavilion. Everything was going well and Punjab’s score was 72 runs for the loss of one wicket, but within the next 26 runs, Punjab lost 3 important wickets.
In this crucial match, captain Shreyas Iyer could only score 1 run. Punjab lost their 4 wickets at a score of 98. Nehal Wadherra and Shashank Singh, while slowly managing the innings, added 38 runs together, but as the wickets started falling, the match went out of Punjab’s hands. Punjab lost 3 more wickets within just 9 runs.
Poor batting in the middle overs was the main reason for Punjab Kings’ defeat. Within just 4 overs, Punjab lost important wickets like Shreyas Iyer, Prabhsimran Singh and Josh English, after which Punjab could not come back in the match. In fact, after losing just one wicket at the score of 72, Punjab lost their 3 wickets within the next 26 runs.
Punjab had sharp batsmen like Marcus Stoinis and Shashank Singh in the lower middle order, but after losing these 3 wickets, the Punjab team failed to build any big partnership. During these 26 runs, Kunal Pandya took two wickets, while Romario Shepherd broke the back of PBKS by dismissing Shreyas Iyer for just 1 run.
