IPL 2025 Final: Royal Challengers Bangalore won their first IPL Trophy by defeating Punjab Kings by 6 runs in the IPL 2025 final held on Tuesday, June 3. Shreyas Iyer won the toss and decided to bowl first. RCB had set a target of 191 runs to win in front of Punjab, which was not very difficult but the Punjab team remained 7 runs away from the target. Shashank Singh struggled till the end but he could not win. Know 5 criminals of Punjab’s defeat in the final.

The Punjab Kings salute pair (Priyansh Arya and Prabhasimran Singh) made a slow start, although it seemed that the middle order batsmen including captain Shreyas Iyer would cover it, but this could not happen. Shashank Singh scored an unbeaten 61 in 30 balls but no other batsman could support him and the team lost the final by 6 runs.

5 criminals of Punjab Kings defeat in the final

Prabhasimran Singh shared 43 runs with Priyansh Arya and then 29 runs with Josh English, but he batted very slowly. He scored 26 runs and played 22 balls for this. While he hit 2 sixes. That is, if they remove those 2 shots, they scored 14 runs in 20 balls.

Shreyas Iyer

Of course, the whole season Shreyas Iyer’s bat has gone well, he should join the top 5 runs scorer and be the highest run -scorer batsmen for Punjab Kings, but he is also a guilty of the final defeat. When Prabhasimran was dismissed, Punjab scored 72 runs in 8.3 overs, Punjab was in good condition but he returned to the pavilion after scoring just 1 run. This increased the pressure on the team.

Nehal Vadhera

Vadhera ruined a lot of balls in the middle order, causing Punjab to fall behind. Vadhera scored 15 runs in 18 balls in the final against Royal Challengers Bangalore.

Marcus Stoinis

Stoinis finally needed a good innings, he also hit a six on the first ball but was caught out by playing irresponsible shots on the next ball. He could not read a slow ball from Bhuvneshwar Kumar and only bathed, and the ball went straight into the fielder’s hands.

Kyle jaimison

In the IPL final, the most expensive bowler for Punjab Kings was Kyle Jeemison, who took 3 wickets but also took runs from the economy of 12. He conceded 48 runs in his 4 overs spell.

IPL 2025 Winner Team: Royal Challengers Bangalore defeated Punjab Kings by 6 runs to win the IPL 2025 trophy. RCB has become the champion for the first time in 18 years of IPL history. This is the first time an IPL final has been played in Ahmedabad and the first batting team has won. RCB scored 190 runs while playing first, in response, Punjab team could score 184 runs.

Punjab Kings had a target of 191 runs. Chasing this big target, Punjab fielded 2 unaccounted players in the opening. Priyansh Arya and Prabhasimran Singh gave their team a fast start, but Priyansh was dismissed for 24 runs. Phil Salat caught Priyansh to the pavilion after catching a wonderful catch. Everything was going well and Punjab’s score was 72 runs at the loss of one wicket, but within the next 26 runs, Punjab lost 3 important wickets.

In this important match, captain Shreyas Iyer was also able to score only 1 runs. After seeing, Punjab lost 4 wickets on a score of 98. Nehal Vadhera and Shashank Singh gradually pushed the innings and added 38 runs together, but once the fall of wickets started, the match slipped from Punjab’s hand. Punjab lost 3 wickets within just 9 wickets.

Where is the decision match from Punjab

The poor batting in the middle overs was one of the main reasons for the defeat of Punjab Kings. Within 4 overs, the Punjab team lost the wickets of Shreyas Iyer, Prabhasimran Singh and Josh English, from there, Punjab could not return to the match. In fact, after scoring one wicket on the score of 72, Punjab lost 3 wickets within 26 runs.

In the lower middle order, Punjab had batsmen like Marcus Stoinis and Shashank Singh, but after these 3 wickets, the batsmen of the Punjab team could not do any big partnership. Within these 26 runs, two wickets were taken by Krunal Pandya, while Romario Shepherd had dismissed Shreyas Iyer for just 1 run and broke the back of PBKS.

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RCB vs pbks final score: In the final of IPL 2025, Royal Challengers Bangalore have scored 190 runs while playing first. The final match is being played at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. In this clash, the Bengaluru team got an invitation to bat first. In the final match, Virat Kohli was the top scorer for RCB, who scored 43 runs. In the last overs, Jitesh Sharma, Liam Livingstone and Romario Shepherd playing cameo innings

Virat Kohli and Phil Salat started the innings for RCB. Rumors of not playing the finals of the earlier Salt from the match were flying, but they played the finals but were dismissed for only 16 runs. During the innings, Virat was severely criticized as he scored 43 runs but his boundary percentage was very low. He hit only 3 fours in his 43 -run innings. Mayank Agarwal came in a mood for batting, but was dismissed by 24 runs in 18 balls.

At one time RCB lost 2 wickets on a score of 56. Virat and Rajat Patidar together added 40 runs but the Patidar was dismissed on the score of 26. When Virat Kohli was out, Bangalore scored 131 runs for the fifth ball of the 15th over. After Kohli was dismissed, RCB added 59 runs off the last 31 balls but also lost 5 wickets.

58 runs, 5 wickets in the last 5 overs

In the last 5 overs, Jitesh Sharma scored 24 runs in just 10 balls, Livingstone also made a big contribution to Bangalore to reach the score of 190. Romario Shepherd turned a bat in a stormy manner and scored 17 runs in 9 balls. RCB added 58 runs in the last 5 overs, but also lost 5 wickets

Kyle Jaimison and Arshdeep Singh took 3-3 wickets for Punjab Kings. Jaimison broke havoc on the batsmen of Bangalore first, while in the last over, Arshdeep took 3 wickets to Bangalore from scoring 200 runs.

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