Reasons Punjab Kings Lost Qualifier 1: Royal Challengers Bangalore made it to the final of IPL after 9 years. Bengaluru has registered a historic victory by trampling Punjab Kings by 8 wickets. Despite playing on his home ground in this first qualifier match, Punjab Kings have suffered a huge defeat. Punjab’s batting was neither good nor bowling. Here you can know in 3 points why Punjab got defeat in qualifier-1?

1. Playing fast Punjab was overwhelmed

The first qualifier match was played at the stadium in Mullanpur, where the average score of the first batting team in the IPL is 170 runs. The pitch here is said to be equally helpful for both batting and bowling. Usually, very big scores are not scored here, yet the Punjab batsmen showed such a stance as they had gone for 200+ runs. If the wickets of Punjab Kings are assessed, most of the batsmen were out either in the process of playing fast or playing irresponsible shots.

2. losing the toss of captain Shreyas Iyer

At the time of the toss, captain Shreyas Iyer himself admitted that he also wanted to bowl first. On one side there were a lot of grass on the pitch, while in the evening, a very big factor at Mullanpur Stadium proved to be a big factor. Even if Punjab had scored a score of 170-180 runs here, it would not be easy to defend it due to the ‘Dew Factor’.

3. Punjab lost wickets in bunches

In the T20 match, a team is able to lay the foundation of a big score only when small partnerships are held in the batsmen, but the batting line-up of Punjab was badly flopped. Punjab had scored 27 runs at the loss of one wicket, but 3 more wickets had fallen within the next 11 runs. At the same time, Punjab’s score was 60/5 before Shashank Singh’s wicket fell, but here too the team lost 3 wickets in an interval of 18 runs.

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Pbks vs rcb highlights IPL 2025 match 37: Royal Challengers Bangalore defeated Punjab Kings by 7 wickets. This is RCB’s fifth win in IPL 2025. In this match, the Punjab team scored 157 runs in the first play, in response to which the Bangalore team easily achieved the target with 7 wickets in the 19th over. Virat Kohli and Devdutt Padikkal put fifty for RCB. Let us know that Virat has now become the most fifty in IPL history to install the most fifty in IPL Virat Kohli.

RCB’s fifth win

Royal Challengers Bangalore had a target of 158 runs, in response to which RCB started very poorly. Phil Salt was dismissed by scoring only 1 run in the first over, but after that Virat Kohli and Devdutt Padikal brought RCB to the threshold of victory on a 103 -run partnership. Padikkal scored 61 runs in 35 balls and hit five fours and 4 skyscraper sixes.

Bengaluru had lost the second wicket on the score of 109, after which captain Rajat Patidar could not stay at the crease for a long time and started scoring 12 runs. Virat Kohli was still at the crease, who played an unbeaten 73 run innings in 54 balls to ensure his team’s victory. This is the fifth win in eight matches of Bengaluru in IPL 2025, which has now finished third in the points table.

Virat Kohli’s historical half -century

Virat Kohli has now become the most fifty batsman in the history of the Indian Premier League. He has left David Warner behind in this case. Before the Punjab vs Bangalore match, Virat Kohli and David Warner were on par with 66 half -centuries. Now Virat has made this record of IPL by putting 67th fifty. Just 2 days ago, in the rain -affected match, Punjab Kings defeated RCB by 5 wickets. Now the Bengaluru team has completed the revenge of the defeat that came 2 days ago with an easy win.

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Royal challengers bengaluru vs Punjab kings: Royal Challengers Bangalore have suffered defeat on the occasion of IPL birthday. Punjab Kings defeated RCB by 5 wickets in a 14 -over match disrupted rain. Once again RCB has lost at home. RCB scored 95 runs after playing first. In response, Punjab Kings chased the target in 12.1 overs. The first bowlers for Punjab performed a bang and then in batting, Nehal Vadhera played an important innings of 33 not out in 19 balls. With this victory, Punjab Kings have now reached the second number in the points table.

Punjab Kings started chasing a target of 96 runs in 14 overs. The first wicket fell on the score of 22 in the third over and then the wickets fell at regular intervals. Prabhasimran Singh was dismissed for 13 runs in 9 balls. Then Priyansh Arya returned to the pavilion after scoring 16 runs in 11 balls. Captain Shreyas Iyer was also dismissed for 7 runs off 10 balls. Then Josh English returned to the pavilion after scoring 14 runs.

When 4 wickets fell for 53 runs in 8 overs, it seemed that the RCB match would turn, but Nehal Vadhera made a counter attack and overturned the match towards Punjab. Nehal Vadhera scored an unbeaten 33 in 19 balls. 3 fours and 3 sixes came out of his bat.

Earlier, RCB did not have a good start to bat first after losing the toss in a 14 -over match disrupted rain. Phil Salt returned to the pavilion after scoring four runs in the first over. He was dismissed by Arshdeep Singh. Then Arshdeep also dismissed Virat Kohli. He could only score one run.

After the dismissal of both the openers, everyone had expectations from the silver Patidar. As soon as he came, he hit a four and a six. But the wickets continued to fall at the other end. First Liam Livingstone was dismissed for 23 runs. Then Jitesh Sharma Sirp continued for two runs. RCB lost wickets at regular intervals.

Patidar returned to the pavilion after scoring 23 runs off 18 balls. Manoj Bhandagge came as an impact player, but he could not do anything and was dismissed by a run. Tim David played some big shots and scored his first half -century of IPL. He hit three consecutive sixes in the last over.

Tim David returned unbeaten for 50 runs in 26 balls. 5 fours and 3 sixes came out of his bat. For Punjab Kings, Arshdeep Singh, Harpreet Brar, Yuzvendra Chahal and Marco Yansen took two wickets each.