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IPL 2025: What are the 5 reasons for Royal Challengers Bangalore’s first title win?
Samira Vishwas | June 5, 2025 9:24 AM CST

Delhi: Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB), one of the most popular teams of the Indian Premier League (IPL 2025), has won the title by ending the 18 -year drought. The RCB, who has missed the Shining Trophy in its cabinet from the last 17 editions in the IPL, finally achieved the privilege of becoming champion by hitting the 18th season target, where he defeated Punjab Kings (PBKS) by 6 runs in the final match on Tuesday night.

In this grand finale played at Narendra Modi Cricket Stadium in Ahmedabad, Virat Kohli’s team team played amazing and filled the bag of his fans with happiness. This exciting victory of RCB had many such moment which finally proved to be decisive. Let us give you 5 major reasons for the first time of RCB to win the title in this article.

Performance like team unit

Royal Challengers Bangalore has done a teamwork in this match. Where his players performed amazing from batting to bowling. Virat Kohli played an anchor role in the first 10 overs in batting for RCB. So at the same time, some other batsmen also played useful innings. In which, apart from Virat Kohli’s 43 runs, captain Rajat Patidar scored 26 in 16 balls, Liam Livingstone scored 15 balls 25 and Jitesh Sharma scored 24 runs in 10 balls. After this, in bowling, Krunal Pandya and Bhuvneshwar Kumar took 2-2 wickets. Josh Hazlewood, Romario Shepherd and Yash Dayal took 1-1 wickets.

Stormy batting in Jitesh Sharma’s last over

In this match for RCB, the innings of wicketkeeper batsman Jitesh Sharma cannot be forgotten. He came to batting on the right occasion and changed the gear and scored 24 runs in 10 balls with 2 fours and 2 sixes. His innings crossed RCB’s score of 180 runs and the bowlers got a chance to defend.

Bowlers did wonders

RCB scored 190 runs on the batting pitch of Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. After which it was believed that this is not such a big score that could be defended. But the team bowled amazing in the leadership of Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Josh Hazlewood. The team used 6 bowlers. Of these, 5 bowlers got wickets in their account. From this, it can be clearly guessed what kind of commitment his bowling showed.

Impact of Krunal Pandya’s bowling

Punjab Kings had more than 200 runs in the same ground against dangerous bowling attacks like Mumbai Indians in Qualifier 2. In such a situation, 191 was not considered a difficult goal for Shreyas’s army against RCB. However, all -rounder Krunal Pandya (Krunal Pandya) performed tremendously with his spin. He spent just 17 runs in 4 overs and took two big wickets in the form of Prabhasimran Singh and Josh England, as well as the run speed. It was due to the effect of his bowling that the road was easy for RCB here.

RCB’s great fielding

For RCB, the first title in the history of IPL, this match was seen in batting and bowling in this match. However, his editor cannot be forgotten in fielding. Apart from many best ground fielding, Phil Salat and Liam Livingstone caught the best catch. Along with this, some more good catchs were caught. This magnificent fielding Edder made a tremendous impact in the match for Royal Challengers Bangalore and later caused victory.


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