Royal Challengers Bangalore
The team of Royal Challengers Bangalore ended the IPL 2025 season league stage with a historic 6 wickets. In its last match of the league stage, RCB successfully pursued a 228 -run target against the Lucknow Super Gynts, which was the biggest successful run chase of his IPL history so far. Now the RCB team will face the Punjab Kings team in the qualifier-1 match to be held on May 29 in the playoffs, in which they will have a chance to confirm their tickets for the direct final. At the same time, RCB’s record against Punjab Kings in Mullanpur stadium is also good.
This season, Punjab was given unilateral defeat in Mullanpur
The Punjab Kings team, playing under the captaincy of Shreyas Iyer, has ended the league stage in the first place in the points table in the IPL 2025 season. At the same time, he has to play the qualifier-1 match at PCA Stadium Mullanpur in New Chandigarh, which is also his home ground. The performance of Punjab Kings here has not seen anything special this season. PBKS has faced defeat in two of the 4 matches played here. At the same time, he also played a match against RCB on April 20 during the league stage here and he had to face a one -sided defeat by 7 wickets. In this match, the Punjab Kings team, batting first, managed to score only 157 runs in 20 overs, while RCB had achieved the target in 18.5 overs. In such a situation, RCB will once again have a great opportunity to beat this wound of Punjab Kings.
RCB’s historical performance showed out of the house this season
In the history of IPL, where teams have been dominating their house so far, this season RCB showed something that no team had done before. RCB has won all 7 matches played outside the house, so they can be expected to perform a similar performance in the qualifier-1 match. Talking about the RCB’s head to head record against Punjab Kings, a total of 35 matches have been played between the two teams, in which the Punjab Kings team has won 18 matches, while the RCB team has managed to win 17 matches.
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