Virat Kohli
The team of Royal Challengers Bangalore has changed the defeat of their previous match against the Punjab Kings team in the IPL 2025 season with 7 wickets on their home ground. The Punjab Kings team had a chance to bat first in this match, in which they could manage to score 157 runs at the loss of 6 wickets in 20 overs due to the early losing the initial wicket. At the same time, the RCB team achieved this target in 18.5 overs at the loss of three wickets, in which Virat Kohli and Devdutt Padikkal played an important role with the bat.
Virat Kohli and Devdutt Padikkal’s partnership got easy win to RCB
The RCB team started chasing the target of 158 runs in the match against Punjab Kings, in which they lost their first wicket as Phil Salat on the score of 6, who became the victim of Arshdeep Singh after just scoring only one run. At the same time, Devdutt Padikkal, who came out to bat, supported Kohli well in which both of them took the score to 54 runs in the first 6 overs. Kohli and Pudkal saw a 103 -run partnership in 69 balls for the second wicket, which made the match completely turning to RCB.
Padikal’s bat saw a brilliant innings of 61 runs in 35 balls with the help of 5 fours and four sixes. On the other hand, Virat Kohli remained unbeaten till the end, with the help of 7 fours and a six in 54 balls, he returned to win the team with the innings of 73 runs. With this victory, the RCB team has now reached number three with 10 points in the points table.
RCB’s 2 spin bowlers overshadowed Punjab Kings
Talking about the batting performance of the Punjab Kings team in this match, the top order batsmen clearly disappointed with their performance. While Priyansh Arya scored an innings of 22 runs, Prabhasimran Singh managed to play 33 runs. Apart from this, Shreyas Iyer was able to manage only 6 runs. At one time Punjab Kings lost their 6 wickets at a score of just 114 runs. At the same time, the 43 -run partnership between Shashank Singh and Marco Yanson played an important role in taking Punjab’s score to 157 runs. In bowling for RCB, Krunal Pandya and Suyash Sharma took 2-2 wickets, while Romario Shepherd also managed to take a wicket.
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