Royal Challengers Bangalore batsmen did not return to their home ground. In the first 2 matches of IPL 2025, Bangalore batsmen, who batting explosive in Kolkata and Chennai, had to struggle in their first match of this season at M Chinnaswamy Stadium. Especially his explosive opener Phil Soult had trouble playing big shots. Even when he had a big shot with his bat, he had to suffer the brunt of it and he had some similar condition, as MS Dhoni had. What is the whole story, let's tell.

RCB faced Gujarat Titans at Chinnaswamy Stadium on the evening of Wednesday 2 April. This match was special in this sense because Mohammad Siraj was playing against this team for the first time after being part of Bangalore for about 8 years. In such a situation, the eyes were on the collision of Virat Kohli and Siraj. But the match was seen between Salt and Siraj, that too in the first over, when Joss Butler left the Culture on Siraj's ball.

Even after this, the collision between Siraj and Salt continued and Gujarat's star Pesar harassed the opener of Bengaluru. Then came the 5th over, in which the most fun action was seen. On the third ball of this over, Salt made a dreaded shot and the ball fell directly to the roof of the Chinnaswamy Stadium. Salt got 6 runs. But after this, the game stopped for some time because the second ball was called and this proved to be fatal for the salt.

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Siraj put the next ball at a speed of about 146 kilometers per hour and the Salt made it clean bold on it. The sleeping off stump fell 2-3 meters away. This wicket of Salt reminded MS Dhoni. In the last season, an exciting match was played between Bengaluru and Chennai Super Kings on this ground. In the last over of that match, Chennai needed around 17 runs to qualify. Dhoni hit a six on Yash Dayal's first ball. The ball crossed the roof of Chinnaswamy and then the second ball was ordered. Dayal took Dhoni's wicket on the next ball. Just this time the condition of Salt also happened.