Delhi: Rajat Patidar created history, when Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) defeated Mumbai Indians (Mi) by 12 runs at Wankhede Stadium to uphold the rhythm of its undefined victory in the Indian Premier League (IPL 2025).
The Bengaluru franchise has so far played three matches out of their house and won all three. His victory has come against the three most successful teams in the history of the League. Patidar -led RCB started the season with a win in Eden Gardens and Chepock against Kolkata Knight Riders and Chennai Super Kings (CSK), and then defeated Mumbai Indians in Wankhede and completed the hat -trick of victory.
Interestingly, the only defeat of the RCB season was against the Gujarat Titans (GT) at the Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru, Bangalore.
Rajat Patidar made a rare feat to defeat RCB in a single season to defeat CSK, KKR and Mi on their home ground. This has happened only for the second time when a team has achieved this record. Earlier in 2012, Kings XI Punjab (now Punjab Kings) did this feat under the captaincy of David Hussey.
The Punjab team had won by a close margin in Kolkata and Chennai in that season and then a thrilling win by six wickets in Mumbai. Rajat has become the second and first Indian captain in the world to perform this feat after David Hussey.
So far, many teams have won two of these matches, but apart from RCB and Punjab Kings, no team could win these three grounds in the same season.
It is also worth noting that Mi, CSK and KKR are not only the highest trophy winning teams, but they also have the highest win on their home grounds.
RCB also got this opportunity in 2008, when he won in Mumbai and Chennai, but lost by just 5 runs at Eden Gardens in Kolkata.
This is RCB’s first win since 2015 at the Wankhede Stadium and this also broke the process of his six -match defeat. Earlier, he defeated CSK in Chepock after 17 years, where he had lost 8 times in a row. This was also his first win since 2019 in Kolkata, when he succeeded in defeating defending champions KKR.
Significantly, Patidar was adjudged the Player of the Match against CSK and Mi. 31 -year -old Patidar is captaining RCB for the first time and has replaced Faf du Plessis.
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