RCB reached the final for the fourth time after beating Punjab by 8 wickets: Match report

IPL 2025, PBKS vs RCB: The first qualifier of the ongoing season of IPL-1 match was played on 29 May today between Punjab Kings and Royal Challengers Bangalore in Mullanpur. Let us know that in this match, RCB has won by 8 wickets on the basis of all -rounder performance and made it to the final for the fourth time in IPL history.

Talking about the match, RCB bowled brilliantly first, stopped Shreyas & Company for just 101 runs, and then achieved the target very easily by losing 2 wickets. For RCB, opener Phil Salt played a stormy innings of 56* runs in 27 balls with the help of 6 fours and 3 sixes.

PBKS vs RCB, qualifier-1 match condition

Tell you about the match, RCB decided to bowl by winning the toss. After this, Punjab Kings were reduced to just 101 runs in 14.1 overs against RCB’s amazing bowling in the match.

Earlier, Priyansh Arya (7) and Prabhasimran Singh (18), who came to bat for the team, failed to give a big start. The team got the first blow for 9 runs. After this, the batting of the team collapsed like cards and wickets started falling one after the other.

Inform Josh English 4, Shreyas Iyer 2 and Nehal Vadhera returned to the pavilion till the 7th over scoring 8 runs. Marcus Stoinis scored a fast innings of 26 runs in 17 balls, but did not meet any other player. Shashank Singh 4 and Impact Player Mushir Khan (0) failed to score big.

On the other hand, RCB witnessed great bowling from all bowlers. Josh Hazlewood and Suyash Sharma got 3-3 wickets. Apart from this, Yash Dayal got 2 and Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Romario Shepherd got 1-1 wickets.

Subsequently, when RCB came out to chase an easy target of 102 runs from Punjab, he achieved this target very easily by losing 2 wickets in 10 overs. Virat Kohli scored 12 and Mayank Agarwal scored 19 runs for the team, while Phil Salat 56* and Rajat Patidar 15* remained unbeaten.

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