Who Won Yesterday IPL Match 3 June 2025, RCB vs PBKS Final Match: RCB won the title for the first time by defeating Punjab Kings, see match highlights and all details.
IPL 2025 Final Match Highlight Details
Royal Challengers Bangalore managed to end their 18-year title drought by defeating Punjab Kings in the title match of IPL 2025. Know how the thrilling title match was every moment.
Who Won Yesterday IPL Match 3 June 2025, RCB vs PBKS, kal ka match kaun jeeta: Virat Kohli and Royal Challengers Bangalore finally forgot 18 years of failures and disappointments and won the Indian Premier League title for the first time by defeating Punjab Kings by six runs on Tuesday.
As soon as the victory was certain, Virat could not control his tears and sat on his knees on the field and cried. Along with him, the eyes of RCB fans, who have been chanting the mantra 'E Sala Cup Namde' for 18 years, also became moist. The memories of failure in the finals three times so far also became blurred in these tears of joy.
RCB Took A Sigh of Relief Only After Winning:
In the final played on a batting friendly pitch, RCB handled the pressure well and did not give up their fighting spirit and won the match.
Batting first, amid the chants of 'Kohli Kohli' and 'RCB RCB' on the field, RCB scored 190 runs for the loss of nine wickets in which Kohli contributed 43 runs in 35 balls. The score of 190 runs was not that big but the bowlers led by Krunal Pandya also performed brilliantly.
Pandya took two wickets for 17 runs in four overs. However, the decisive moment of the match was the wicket of Punjab captain Shreyas Iyer off the bowling of Romario Shepherd.
Punjab Could Not Score 29 Runs In The Last Over:
Punjab needed 29 runs in the last over and Josh Hazlewood sealed the victory by bowling the second dot ball. Apart from Shashank Singh (61 runs in 30 balls), no batsman could perform for Punjab. Iyer, who played a brilliant innings in the second qualifier, was out after scoring one run. Josh Inglis scored 39 runs in 23 balls but Pandya got him caught at long on in the 13th over. After this, the chant of 'RCB RCB' increased on every dot ball.
South Africans AB de Villiers and Chris Gayle, who have played for RCB, also came here especially for this match. Prabhsimran Singh for Punjab made 26 off 22 balls. Bhuvneshwar Singh dismissed Nehal Wadhera (15) and Marcus Stoinis (six) within three balls in the 17th over.
RCB Managed To Score 190 Runs For 9 Wickets:
Earlier, on the basis of the excellent performance of their bowlers led by Arshdeep Singh and Kyle Jamieson, Punjab Kings restricted Royal Challengers Bangalore to 190 runs for nine wickets. For RCB, Kohli was out after scoring 43 runs in 35 balls at a strike rate of 122.85.
Kohli hit only three fours in his innings. RCB's score in the powerplay was one The wicket was 55 runs but only 42 runs were scored between the sixth and the 11th over. Phil Salt (16) hit a six and a four in the first over but lost his wicket in the next over. Punjab captain Shreyas Iyer, standing at mid-on, took a brilliant high catch off Jamieson's ball, taking more than ten steps backward.
RCB Batsmen Failed To Play A Big Innings:
Salt's dismissal had a big impact on RCB's innings as Mayank Agarwal (24), Rajat The visitors had an impact as Mayank Agarwal (24), Rajat Patidar (26) and Liam Livingstone (25) failed to convert their starts into big scores.
Jamieson bowled with accurate length and line and kept the batsmen confused with variety. He took three wickets for 48 runs in four overs while Arshdeep took three wickets for 40 runs in four overs.
Jamieson And Arshdeep Took 3-3 Wickets:
After getting Salt caught by Iyer in the second over, Jamieson got Patidar out LBW in the 11th over with a brilliant yorker. In Jamieson's fourth and 17th over of the innings, Jitesh Sharma hit two and Livingstone hit a six, scoring a total of 23 runs. Jitesh scored 24 runs in ten balls with two fours and two sixes. Jamieson got Livingstone out LBW on a full toss.
After giving 37 runs in the first three overs, India's star fast bowler Arshdeep took three wickets for just three runs in the last over. He got the wickets of Krunal (four), Bhuvneshwar (one) and Shepherd (17) Did not let RCB reach 200 runs.
Man of The Match:
Krunal Pandya, who took 2 wickets for 17 runs in 4 overs, was selected as the "Man of The Match" for his brilliant bowling in the final match.