Shane Watson predicted IPL 2025 winner: Cricketracker hindi

Royal Challengers Bangalore finished the top-2 in the points table after performing well in the league stage of IPL 2025. He won 9 out of 14 matches, while losing four matches. At the same time, a match was washed away by rain. In its last league match, RCB registered a memorable victory against Lucknow Super Giants, chasing a target of 228 runs.

Now RCB’s team will play against Punjab Kings in qualifier-1. The match is scheduled to be played on May 29 at Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium in Mullanpur, Chandigarh. Meanwhile, Shane Watson believes that the RCB can go far ahead in the tournament and predicted that Virat Kohli will become a player of the match in the final.

In the video shared on ‘X’, Watson said that, ‘IPL 2025 will be the winner RCB. According to me, the man of the match will be Virat Kohli. I think it is RCB time. At the end of the tournament, he got some shocks, but this year is right for him with Josh Hazlewood returning to the playoffs.

It really has been another incredible season of @IPL
The playoffs are truly going to be EPIC !!
Here are my predictions for who i think is going to win ipl18.
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– Shane Watson (@Shanerwatson33) May 28, 2025

Josh Hazlewood returns

Let us know that Josh Hazlewood has performed brilliantly for RCB this season. He has taken 18 wickets in 10 matches at an average of 17.28. This Australian fast bowler missed some of the last few matches due to injury, but now the team has started looking stronger.

Jitesh Sharma took command of RCB in the last few matches due to the injury of regular captain Rajat Patidar. In the match against Lucknow, Jitesh Sharma, playing the captaincy innings, scored 85 runs for the team with 8 fours and 6 sixes in 33 balls and remained unbeaten till the end.