Rajat patidar: The IPL 2025 has started in a great and exciting style with the first match between Defending Champions Kolkata Knight Riders and Royal Challengers Bangalore, captained by Rajat Patidar. The match was played at the Eden Gardens Stadium in Kolkata, in which RCB captain Patidar won the toss and decided to bowl first who went to his favor.
In this match, KKR, batting first, scored a score of 174 runs at the loss of 8 wickets on the score board in the scheduled 20 overs, in response to which RCB easily achieved this target by losing 7 wickets in 16.2 overs. Virat Kohli remained unbeaten till the end and scored 59 runs off 36 balls. Let us tell you what RCB captain Rajat Patidar said after winning the match?
After winning the first match of IPL 2025, RCB's new captain Rajat Patidar said that
"Initially there was definitely pressure on us, but it was a good day for me." We wanted Andre Russell's wicket, for which we brought Suyash Sharma back and then giving his run did not matter to us. Suyash is a strike bowler of our team and we supported him, the way Krunal Pandya and Suyash Sharma bowled all the credit goes to both of them. Regarding Virat Kohli, Patidar said that it is very good that he is with us and he supports a lot in the field and gets a lot to learn from him.
In the first match of IPL 2025, defending winner KKR had targeted RCB of 175 runs in 20 overs to win at their home ground, in response to which Virat Kohli and Phil Salat's opening pair gave the team a bang. In this match, Virat Kohli came on the field to bat with his new partner and got engulfed as soon as he came. In fact, initially Phil Salat was taking the news of KKR bowlers and after that Virat Kohli also joined the party and started beating from the other end as well.
In this match, both of them together played a stormy partnership of 95 runs from 51 balls for the first wicket and laid an important foundation for RCB's victory. Phil Salat scored 56 runs off 31 balls, while former captain Virat Kohli has scored an unbeaten 59 off 36 balls, including 4 fours and three aerial sixes. Apart from these, Captain Rajat Patidar scored 34 runs off 16 balls with the bat of Rajat Patidar, including 5 fours and a long six. The victorious run for RCB came from Liam Livingstone's bat.
With this victory, Royal Challengers Bangalore have also paid 18 years old accounts with KKR. In fact, the first match of the first edition of IPL was played between these two teams, in which KKR scored 222 runs while batting first, in response to which RCB was piled on 82 runs. 18 years after that match, both these teams have once again come face to face in the first match of IPL, which RCB won and took old revenge. Let us know that this is also the first match of RCB under the captaincy of Rajat Patidar.
