IPL 2025: Royal Challengers Bangalore Has defeated Punjab Kings by 8 wickets in the qualifier-1 match and made it to the finals. The franchise has created history under the captaincy of Rajat Patidar. RCB has reached the IPL final after a full 9 years and now only one win is away from its first title.
Rajat Patidar has done a big feat as soon as Royal Challengers Bangalore was transported to the final of IPL 2025. He has joined this special list of MS Dhoni, Anil Kumble, Rohit Sharma and Hardik Pandya.
Rajat Patidar has already become the fifth Indian captain to bring his franchise to the finals in the IPL season as captain. MS Dhoni was the first Indian to reach the IPL final in his first year as captain. He achieved this feat for Chennai Super Kings in 2008.
Anil Kumble led Royal Challengers Bangalore in 2009 and took the team to the finals. Rohit Sharma is in third place in the list, who took Mumbai Indians to the finals in 2013 under his captaincy. While Hardik Pandya is in fourth place, under whose captaincy Gujarat Titans made it to the finals in the first season.
Talking about the qualifier-1 match played between Punjab Kings and Royal Challengers Bangalore, Shreyas Iyer’s team lost the toss and batting first and was reduced to 101 in 14.1 overs. Marcus Stoinis scored the most 26 runs in 17 balls. At the same time, Josh Hazlewood and Suyash Sharma took 3-3 wickets for Bengaluru.
Royal Challengers Bangalore, chasing a target of 102 runs, had a slight start. In the fourth over, Virat Kohli was dismissed for 12 runs in 12 balls. But then the team chased the target in 10 overs due to an unbeaten 56 runs in 27 balls and captain Rajat Patidar’s 15 runs unbeaten innings.
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