IPL 2025: In the Indian Premier League 2025, RCB has suffered the first defeat of the season. This defeat is more disappointing because he has found it in his home ground. In this match played against GT, RCB has lost by 8 wickets. Jose Butler became the reason for this defeat. Butler's fierce innings dashed the expectations of RCB's victory.
Jos Buttler's record in IPL is excellent. If they freeze at the crease, then they return only after winning their team. His team has undoubtedly changed in IPL 2025 but his habit has not changed. In the match played against RCB, Butler played an unbeaten innings of 73 runs in just 39 balls with the help of 6 sixes and 5 fours. Thanks to this innings, Gujarat managed to win the RCB.
Gujarat had a target of 170 runs to win. Apart from Jose Butler's unbeaten 73, opener Sai Sudarshan scored 49 runs off 36 balls. Apart from this, Rutherford remained unbeaten after scoring 30 runs in 18 balls. Gujarat won by 8 wickets by scoring 170 runs for 2 wickets in 17.5 overs.
After losing the RCB toss, the first batting came out. The top order of the team was completely flopped. Virat, Salt and Devdutt, Patidar were dismissed cheaply. With the help of Liam Livingstone's 52, Jitesh Sharma's 33 and Tim David's 32 runs, RCB scored 169 for 8 wickets. RCB has moved directly from the first place to third place after this defeat.
