IPL 2025, Royal Challengers vs Punjab Kings Final: Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) defeated Punjab Kings by 6 runs in the final of IPL 2025. With this victory, he won the IPL title for the first time. RCB won the exciting match till the last over at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. The wait for 17 years ended. Virat Kohli has won the IPL title for the first time. Punjab Kings suffered defeat in the final for the second time. Earlier, he was defeated by Kolkata Knight Riders in 2014.

Punjab Kings captain Shreyas Iyer won the toss and decided to bowl first. RCB scored 190 runs for 9 wickets in 20 overs. Virat Kohli scored the highest 43 runs for the team. Rajat Patidar scored 26, Liam Livingstone 25, Jitesh Sharma and Mayank Agarwal scored 24-24 runs. The Romario Shepherd’s bat scored 17 runs and Philip Salt’s bat scored 16 runs. For Punjab, Arshdeep Singh and Kayel Zamison took 3-3 wickets. Yuzvendra Chahal, Vijaykumar Vaishakh and Ajmatullah Umarjai took 1-1 wickets.

The Punjab Kings batsmen worked hard, but they could not bring the team beyond victory. Shashank Singh scored an unbeaten 61 off 30 balls. He hit 3 fours and 6 sixes. Josh English scored 39 runs off 23 balls for him. Prabhasimran Singh scored 26 and Priyansh Arya scored 24 runs. Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Krunal Pandya took 2-2 wickets for RCB.