PBKS vs RCB: The 37th match of IPL 2025 between Punjab Kings and Royal Challengers Bangalore was played today at Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium in Mullampur. Bengaluru captain Rajat Patidar won the toss and decided to bowl first. Punjab Kings batted first and gave a target of 158 runs to RCB. RCB easily completed this target and defeated Punjab by seven wickets.
Chasing this score given by Punjab, Bengaluru has suffered a major setback in the first over as Phil Salt. After this, Kohli and Padikkal handled RCB and scored 54 runs on the board in Powerplay. Padikal scored a half -century off 30 balls. Padikal was dismissed for 61 runs. After this, Virat Kohli scored his 59th IPL half -century off 43 balls.
Bowling for Bengaluru shines Krunal Pandya and Suyash Sharma who took 2-2 wickets. Shashank Singh (31) and Prabhasimran Singh (33) played good innings for Punjab, apart from them no batsman could cross the 30 -run mark.
Both teams are as follows
Royal Challengers Bangalore: Phil Soult, Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar (Captain), Tim David, Romio Shepherd, Jitesh Sharma (wicketkeeper), Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Josh Hazlewood, Suyash Sharma, Yash Dayal.
Punjab Kings: Prabhasimran Singh, Priyansh Arya, Nehal Vadhera, Shreyas Iyer (Captain), Shashank Singh, Josh English (wicketkeeper), Marcus Stoinis, Marco Yansen, Javier Bartlet, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal.