Sunil Gavaskar on Punjab Kings Batting: In the first qualifier of IPL 2025 played at Mullanpur Cricket Stadium, RCB defeated Punjab Kings badly by 8 wickets. Shreyas Iyer & Team’s batting flopped completely, in this big match, the team collapsed for just 101 runs. RCB had no difficulty in achieving the target. Former cricketer Sunil Gavaskar narrated a lot to the captain and Punjab team.

RCB won the toss and decided to bowl first. Punjab Kings batsmen lost 4 wickets at a score of 38 in the powerplay, half of their team had returned to the pavilion on a score of 50. Shreyas Iyer (2) was also dismissed cheaply after Priyansh Arya (7), Prabhasimran Singh (18). Josh English (4), the hero of the last match, was also caught out by Josh Hazlewood, who took a total of 3 wickets in the match. Even after this, no batsman could put a big shot except Stoinis nor could it stand at the crease. Stoinis also continued to score 26 runs under pressure.

Sunil Gavaskar gets angry at Iyer

Gavaskar criticized the shot selection of Punjab Kings batsmen. According to a media report, he said during the commentary, “This is like suicide.”

Gavaskar also narrated a lot to Punjab captain Shreyas Iyer. In the fourth over, when he was dismissed for 2 runs, this was the third wicket of the innings. He was caught by Josh Hazlewood behind the wicket.

Gavaskar said about the captain, “This is not a good shot selection. One can understand if you are trying to kill it over the long off. But it is a wild swing. 2 wickets have fallen and the fourth over is going on.”

RCB, Punjab Kings have another chance in IPL final

RCB completed the target of 102 in 10 overs and registered a historic victory. With this, the team has reached the IPL final for the fourth time, although the team has lost the first 3 times in the final. Talking about Punjab Kings, he will get another chance to go to the finals, he will take on the eliminator’s winning team in qualifier-2. The second qualifier will be played in Ahmedabad on 1 June.

IPL 2025: Punjab Kings opener Prabhasimran Singh played a brilliant innings of 83 runs in 49 balls against Kolkata Knight Riders in the match played on Saturday. He scored 120 runs for the first wicket with Priyansh Arya. The first wicket team fell as Priyansh Arya, who scored 69 runs in 35 balls. In this innings, he hit 4 sixes and 8 fours.

After this, Prabhasimran Singh missed his century, he scored 83 runs in 49 balls with the help of 6 sixes and equal fours. He was dismissed by Vaibhav Arora, but in this innings, Prabhasimran did something that has not been done by any unkapted player for Punjab till date.

Prabhasimran Singh is the first unaccapped player to do this

Prabhasimran Singh completed 1000 runs for Punjab Kings in the IPL, he has become the first unkapped player to do so. Prabhasimran, who hails from Patiala, has been playing in the IPL since 2019, he was elected to Punjab in his first season. So far, Prabhasimran has scored 1048 runs in 43 matches, including a century and 5 half -century innings.

Wash match in rain

Kolkata Knight Riders vs Punjab Kings is the first match, which was canceled in IPL 2025 due to rain. Punjab, batting first, scored a score of 201 runs. However, after the brilliant start of Priyansh Arya (69) and Prabhasimran (83), the team was able to score about 20-25, because the team scored 120 in 11.5 overs when Priyansh was out. Shreyas Iyer scored an unbeaten 25 in 16 balls. Maxwell (7) flopped once again.

The match stayed for a long time due to rain, when the innings of Kolkata Knight Riders started, only one over match could be done and then the rain came. The match was canceled due to rain and both teams were given 1-1 points.

Punjab Kings reached number four even after canceled

Punjab Kings have got 11 points with 5 wins and a canceled match in 9 matches. She has defeated Mumbai Indians and finished fourth in the points table. The Gujarat Titans remains the first place, Delhi Capitals and Royal Challengers Bangalore are second and third respectively. The top three teams hold the top have 12-12 points.

Pbks vs kkr ipl 2025: On Tuesday, Punjab Kings created history, defending the score of 111 runs, including Kolkata Knight Riders for 95 runs. Yuzvendra Chahal put the match winning spell, he took 4 important wickets for 28 runs in his 4 overs. After this, his alleged girlfriend RJ Mahvash posted a post and praised him.

After divorce with Dhanashree Verma, the names of Yuzvendra Chahal and RJ Mahvash are joining, although both have not confirmed it. But both have been often seen together, after which such reports came out. RJ Mahwash is now coming to support Punjab Kings, for which Yuzvendra Chahal is playing. Mangavalar was given a historic spell by Chahal, for which he was also awarded the Player of the Match award. After this match, Mahvash posted for Chahal.

RJ Mahwash shared a photo with Yuzvendra Chahal in the story on Instagram, in which she is taking a selfie. With this he wrote in the caption, “What a talented man! Highest wicket taker of a reason! Asambhav!

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What did Yuzvendra Chahal say after the match

Yuzvendra Chahal said after the player of the match was selected, “I think it was a team attempt, we wanted to be positive, wanted to take 2-3 wickets in the powerplay, the pitch was not easy. The pitch was also a turn. My first ball turned, so Shreyas said that let’s put the slip, we had to take wickets to win this game. I think how to dismiss the batsmen, I made a change in my pace so that the batsmen have to try to hit. “

IPL 2025: In the first match of the double header on Tuesday in the IPL, Lucknow Super Giants defeated Kolkata Knight Riders by 4 runs. In the second match, Punjab Kings defeated Chennai Super Kings by 18 runs. So far 22 matches have been played in the IPL, after which the Champions of 5-5 times in the points table, Mumbai and Chennai are in bad shape. Although the CSK bowler has captured the purple cap, the race for the Orange Cap has become even more exciting.

In the first match on Tuesday, Lucknow Super Giants scored 238 runs while batting first. Aden Markram (47), Mitchell Marsh (81) and Nicholas Puran (87) played explosive innings. In response, Kolkata also did a good fight but remained 5 runs away from the target.

In the second match, Punjab Kings won the toss and decided to bat first. Once again, a score of more than 200 was scored on this ground, Punjab scored 219 runs with the help of Priyansh Arya’s century. In response, Chennai Super Kings could score 201 runs and Punjab won the match by 18 runs.

IPL 2025 Points Table: Mark Table after 22 matches

After this victory, Rishabh Pant captained Lucknow has got 6 points, this was the team’s third win in 5 matches. The team is at 5th position with a net run rate of +0.078. This was Kolkata’s third defeat in 5 matches, captained by Ajinkya Rahane, is at number six with a -0.056 net run rate.

This was the fourth defeat of 5 -time champion Chennai Super Kings in 5 matches, it is at number 9 in the points table with a net run rate of -0.889. 5 -time champions Mumbai Indians are also in bad shape, he has also lost 4 matches in 5 and is 8th in the table. Punjab Kings have won 3 out of 4 matches under the captaincy of Shreyas Iyer, it is at number four in the list.

IPL 2025 Top 4 Teams: Top 4 Teams

After 22 matches, the top four in the points table are Delhi Capitals (1st), Gujarat Titans (2nd), Royal Challengers Bangalore (3RD) and Punjab Kings (4th). Of these, only Gujarat Titans are, which has won the IPL Trophy.

IPL 2025 Orange Cap: Orange Cap near Nicholas Puran

Nicholas Puran, who played 87 runs in 36 balls against KKR, has an orange cap, he has scored 288 runs in 5 innings.

IPL 2025 Purple Cap: Purple Cap near Noor Ahmed

Noor Ahmed has the most wickets in IPL 2025 so far, he has taken 11 wickets in 5 matches. He has a purple cap, Khalil Ahmed has 10 wickets at number two.

Pbks vs rr 2025: In the second match held in IPL 2025 on Saturday, Rajasthan Royals defeated Punjab Kings by 50 runs. This is the first defeat of Punjab, captained by Shreyas Iyer, after which it has slipped to number four in the points table. Chasing 206 runs, Punjab Kings lost 2 wickets including the captain in Joffra Archer’s first over. The team could only score 155 runs. After the match, Shreyas Iyer told where his team made a mistake.

Rajasthan Royals scored less runs in the first 10 overs but did not lose wickets, which the team took advantage of in the last 10 overs and extended the speed of runs. The most affordable Arshdeep Singh was, who gave 35 runs in 4 overs. Marco Jansen conceded 45 runs in 4 overs, Locky Ferguson gave 37 runs in 4 overs. Spinner Yuzvendra Chahal scored 32 runs in 3 overs and Stoinis 48 runs in 4 overs. The captain said after the match that his team gave additional runs.

Shreyas Iyer said after the match, “I felt that we would give 180-185 runs because it would have been a great score to achieve the target. We could not perform according to our plans, we gave some extra runs.”

The captain further said, “Glad that our team got this necklace in the beginning of the season. It was a good pitch for batting, it was making a little grip. We were trying to hit the deck and were not giving them much speed. We could have done some partnerships and instead of over-Attack, we could slow down a little. We could get a lot to learn from this game. Where we were not able to perform with bowling.

Archer on

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Shreyas Iyer praised Nehal Vadhera

In this match, Nehal Vadhera batted well for Punjab Kings, but the target in front of Punjab Kings, a backward wickets, was very big, which could not win even from Nehal’s innings. Nehal scored 62 runs in 41 balls, in this innings he hit 3 sixes and 4 fours.

Captain Shreyas Iyer said about Nehal Vadhera, “He batted brilliantly under pressure, he was able to analyze some time and was able to attack well on weak balls. This is just a third match, you need a little trouble in the beginning so that you can wake up and I am happy that it is now. We have to go back to the drawing board and we have to return to the next game.”

IPL 2025 Points Table Update: In the match played on Wednesday, Gujarat Titans defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore by 8 wickets. Chasing 170 runs, Jose Butler scored an unbeaten 73 runs. The team achieved the target in 17.5 overs. Earlier, fast bowler Mohammad Siraj was broken on RCB, he took 3 wickets for only 19 runs in 4 overs spell. After this match, RCB has lost the number 1 crown in the IPL points table.

RCB’s first wicket fell in the second over as Virat Kohli (7), who came out to bat first after losing the toss. He was caught out by Arshad Khan’s ball. After this, Mohammad Siraj dismissed Devdutt Padikkal (4) and Phil Salat (14) respectively in the third and fifth over. After this, Rajat Patidar was also dismissed by scoring 12 runs, Ishant Sharma made him his victim. Liam Livingstone played an important innings of 54 runs in 40 balls and contributed to bringing the team to a respectable score. Jitesh Sharma (33) and Tim David (32) also played a good innings.

Chasing the target, Gujarat lost the first wicket as Shubman Gill (14) at the score of 32. After this, Sai Sudarshan (49) shared a 75 -run match with Jose Butler. Butler scored an unbeaten 73 in 39 balls. In this innings, he hit 6 sixes and 5 fours. Gujarat won by 8 wickets by achieving the target with 13 balls.

IPL Points Table: RCB lost number-1 crown

Before the match, RCB was at number one in the points table, after losing it has lost his first place. She has rolled to number three. Whereas despite the victory, Gujarat Titans is at number four. This is RCB’s first defeat in 3 matches. The team’s net run rate is +1.149. This was Gujarat’s second win in 3 matches, its net run rate is +0.807.

On Display: Brute Force

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Punjab Kings and Delhi Capitals have benefited from RCB’s defeat. Punjab has come first with 2 wins in 2 matches, the team’s net run rate is +1.485. Delhi has also won both its matches, its net run rate is +1.320, the team has come second in the points table.