Tata IPL 2025 Final: Royal Challengers Bengaluru are the champions of IPL after 18 years. They beat Punjab Kings by 6 runs in the final. Now I will share the details of this IPL game match in my way.
IPL Final (Royal Challengers Bengaluru Vs Punjab Kings)
Game Date: 3rd June 2025
Details: Punjab Kings captain Shreyas Iyer won the toss and elected to bowl first in the final game of IPL 2025 against Royal Challengers Bengaluru at Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad.
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— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) June 3, 2025
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— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) June 3, 2025
Royal Challengers Bengaluru scored 190/9 in their 20 overs after batting first. This is an inbetween total that will just keep everyone on the edge of their seats. It’s not a big total given the conditions, but it’s definitely not a below-par total as well. In comparison to Qualifier 2, this pitch was slightly better for batting so RCB may feel they left 15-20 runs out there. Generally the new ball in the second innings does extra here and RCB have Hazlewood who can make the batters dance to his tunes, don’t discount Bhuvi either. PBKS got Salt fairly early, Virat tried to bat through, but Azmat pulled off a brilliant catch off his own bowling to send back the RCB star. Mayank, Rajat chipped in for a bit. Livingstone injected life when needed and Jitesh played a stunning cameo. Vyshak cut short that innings and Arshdeep proved why he is so valued at the end. Wasn’t getting wickets in the buildup to this game but he stunned RCB with 3 wickets and just 3 runs in the final over to carry the all-important momentum into the PBKS dressing room during the break. Virat Kohli scored 43 runs of 35 balls and skipper Rajat Patidar scored 26 runs of 16 balls. For PBKS, Arshdeep Singh & Kyle Jamieson picked 3 wickets each.
Innings break!
Crucial cameos galore from #RCB but #PBKS pull things back well π
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Scorecard βΆ https://t.co/U5zvVhcvdo#TATAIPL | #RCBvPBKS | #Final | #TheLastMile pic.twitter.com/jqFhdegMB7
— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) June 3, 2025
Punjab Kings unable to chase the target and scored 184/7 in their 20 overs and lost the game and championship by 6 runs. CB are IPL champs for the first time. 18 years. 18 long years it has taken them to achieve this. Tears from a man as experienced and who has seen everything in his career and his name is Virat Kohli. They surround him. He is crying. What scenes in Ahmedabad. The camera just focusses on two people – Kohli and ABD. The latter finished his career without an IPL but the former won’t be denied. In his 18th year with the number 18 on his back. Maybe it was destined to be like this. Maybe this was all god’s plan. Say this aloud once again all you RCB fans – RCB are IPL champs! Finally, their chant of Ee sala cup namde [this year the cup will be ours] has translated into reality. A moment that every RCB supporter from Bellary to Bengaluru, from Mysore to Mandya, all over Karnataka and all around the world will never forget. The dreaded IPL trophy curse is now over. Breathe RCB fans, take a deep breath – all that longing and waiting, all those disappointments, all those heartbreaks, all those near-misses, all those 17 years of seeing others win and in turn facing trolls and seeing them being ridiculed – all that can now be forgotten. RCB have an IPL trophy. Coming to the chase, both the openers started well but RCB kept taking wickets and Krunal’s spell was game-changing. He put the brakes on and took the dangerous Inglis, also not to forget the all-important wicket taken by Shepherd of Shreyas who did not fire tonight. Punjab though bat very deep with the likes of Jamieson at 9. But the asking rate kept climbing and wickets came and went. Wadhera holed out to sweeper cover, Stoinis started with a six but went next-ball. And Yash Dayal and Hazlewood closed it out despite Shashank Singh wanting to keep strike for a majority of the last two overs. RCB’s fielding apart from the Shepherd drop early on, was excellent with Salt setting the tone with that catch of Priyansh. All the catches were taken after that early blip and RCB kept their composure to professionally close it out. The target was not big but since this was a big final and with a lot riding on it and PBKS just were outsmarted by RCB. Shashank Singh scored 61* runs of 30 balls and Josh Inglis score 39 runs of 23 balls. For RCB, Bhuvneshwar Kumar & Krunal Pandya picked 2 wickets each.
AAAAARRRRR CEEEEEEE BEEEEEE β€π#TATAIPL | #RCBvPBKS | #Final | #TheLastMile | @RCBTweets pic.twitter.com/lp3AwgCVQl
— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) June 3, 2025
RCB: 190/9 in 20 overs
PBKS: 184/7 in 20 overs
Result: Royal Challengers Bengaluru won by 6 runs
Man of the Match: Krunal Pandya
Man of the Series: Suryakumar Yadav
Most Valuable Player of the Season: Suryakumar Yadav
Orange Cap winner: Sai Sudharsan (759 runs)
Catch of the season: Kamindu Mendis
Purple Cap winner: Prasidh Krishna (25 wickets)
Fairplay Award: Chennai Super Kings
Emerging Player of the Season: Sai Sudharsan
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— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) June 3, 2025
Moments he will never forget π
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— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) June 3, 2025
Stats
– Arshdeep’s form has nosedived after the break. He has gone wicketless in four of his last five outings. His record vs RCB (eight wickets from 10 games) and at the venue (three wickets from four games) don’t make a great reading either
– Rajat Patidar had a flying start to the season, but couldn’t quite build on thereafter – 161 runs in the first four games and then 125 in the next nine innings
– Shreyas Iyer has been dismissed four times in six IPL innings by Josh Hazlewood and has scored only 11 off 22 against the Aussie pacer
– This is just the second time in these 15 years that neither of the two IPL finalists have won a trophy previously. The last instance was 2016 (RCB vs SRH).
– Most runs against an opponent in IPL
1159 – Virat Kohli vs PBKS*
1146 – Virat Kohli vs CSK
1134 – David Warner vs PBKS
1130 – Virat Kohli vs DC
1093 – David Warner vs KKR
1083 – Rohit Sharma vs KKR
– 20-plus wickets for PBKS in an IPL edition
24 – Andrew Tye in 2018
24 – Harshal Patel in 2024
23 – Kagiso Rabada in 2022
21 – Arshdeep Singh in 2025
20 – Mohammed Shami in 2020
– Most runs for an uncapped Indian batter in debut IPL season
475 – Priyansh Arya, 2025
473 – Devdutt Padikkal, 2020
439 – Shreyas Iyer, 2015
397 – Tilak Varma, 2022
391 – Rahul Tripathi, 2017
370 – Venkatesh Iyer, 2021
– The winner of Qualifier 1 has won each of the last eight IPL finals (2018-2025); 12 out of 15 overall since the current playoffs system began in 2011.
– 23 sixes were hit today, the joint-most in an IPL final, alongside as many in 2016. 14 by PBKS is the most by a team in the final, surpassing 13 each by CSK in 2011 and RCB in 2016.
– Players with 4 or more IPL final wins
6 – Rohit Sharma, Ambati Rayudu
5 – MS Dhoni, Kieron Pollard, Hardik Pandya
4 – Ravindra Jadeja, Lasith Malinga, Krunal Pandya
– IPL 2025
Most runs in an edition: 26381
Highest runs/wicket in an edition: 30.39
Highest RPO in an edition: 9.62
Most fours in an edition: 2245
Most sixes in an edition: 1294
Most 200-plus totals: 52
– Krunal Pandya becomes the first player to win the Player of the Match award in two IPL finals, having also done that in 2017 (MI vs RPS).
– Teams losing multiple IPL finals
5 – CSK (10 finals)
3 – RCB (4 finals)
2 – SRH (3 finals)
2* – PBKS (2 finals)
– Narrowest wins in IPL playoffs (by runs)
1 run – MI vs RPS, Hyderabad, 2017 Final
1 run – MI vs CSK, Hyderabad 2019 Final
6 runs – Deccan Chargers vs RCB, Johannesburg 2009 Final
6 runs – RCB vs PBKS, Ahmedabad, 2025 Final
8 runs – SRH vs RCB, Bengaluru, 2016 Final
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He guides #RCB to a maiden title π
Relive his spell βΆ https://t.co/vNWU7vQF06 #RCBvPBKS | #Final | #TheLastMile pic.twitter.com/0B4LMWCJc0
— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) June 3, 2025
Not just a win. This is a goddamn full-blown redemption arc. π₯Ά pic.twitter.com/SjiBFo7ryX
— Royal Challengers Bengaluru (@RCBTweets) June 3, 2025
That’s all from final game of the IPL 2025 and hope you all will like this information. We will be back with all the details of new season in next year. For more updates visit my page on Facebook Durgesh Tiwary’s View and website Cricket Movie Website