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IPL 2025 Final Match Today, RCB vs PBKS Team Predicted Playing 11, Live Cricket Score Updates: We are guaranteed a new Indian Premier League champion as Royal Challengers Bengaluru take on Punjab Kings with both teams gunning for their maiden trophy at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on Tuesday. This will be their 4th meeting this season with RCB coming out on top in 2, including Qualifier 1 and PBKS winning one. Revenge will be on the mind of PBKS skipper Shreyas Iyer while RCB skipper Rajat Patidar will look to avoid stumbling at the final hurdle.
In Qualifier 1, RCB had defeated PBKS without breaking a sweat as the Kings’ batting imploded. RCB made their way into the final while PBKS had to take on Mumbai Indians, the winners of the Eliminator. With Mumbai almost running away with the win on Sunday, captain Iyer stepped up at the most opportune time and blasted an unbeaten 87 to guide Punjab to the final.
Both teams have big hitters in their ranks but RCB are still sweating over the fitness of Tim David. Meanwhile, Punjab might opt for Harpreet Brar instead of Yuzvendra Chahal who did not look at his best against MI after returning in the Eliminator after sitting out the last few matches, including Qualifier 1.
Virat Kohli might have told AB de Villiers not to say the old RCB slogan ‘ee-saala cup namde’ (This year, the cup will be ours) according to the South African, but he hasn’t been shy of fronting up to the potential triumph. (Sportzpics)
Virat Kohli’s ‘18 till I fly’ dream takes off as RCB universe conspires to try giving their talisman the elusive IPL trophy
Couple of years ago, a bespectacled Virat Kohli unexpectedly opened his heart out to a small gathering of RCB women players. They had had a disastrous season that year, their first, and Kohli didn’t just offer vague consultatory words, but dipped into his own experiences, his failures, his insecurities and his long wait for the IPL trophy. “If we don’t win I am not going to go to my grave thinking only if I had won the IPL I would have been a happy man dying; it doesn’t happen like that!” he smiled.
