RCB Record Their Highest Run Chase, 3rd Best Overall In IPL History

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Last Updated:May 28, 2025, 10:11 IST

Royal Challengers Bengaluru chased their highest IPL total, which was the third-highest wide successful the past of the Indian Premier League.

IPL 2025: Royal Challengers Bengaluru's Virat Kohli (AP)

Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) chased down their highest full successful the Indian Premier League, 3rd overall, arsenic skipper Jitesh Sharma hammered an unbeaten 85, and Virat Kohli scored 54. RCB, with their six-wicket triumph implicit Lucknow Super Giants connected Tuesday, booked a spot successful qualifier 1 of the IPL 2025 playoffs.

Bengaluru chased down 228, climbing to 2nd spot successful the 10-team array successful the season’s past league match. They volition look table-toppers Punjab Kings connected Thursday.

It was the third-highest palmy tally pursuit successful IPL past and the highest-ever by RCB.

List Of Highest Successful Run-Chases In IPL

• 262 – PBKS vs KKR, Kolkata, 2024
• 246 – SRH vs PBKS, Hyderabad, 2025
• 228 – RCB vs LSG, Lucknow, 2025
• 224 – RR vs PBKS, Sharjah, 2020
• 224 – RR vs KKR, Kolkata, 2024

RCB’s Highest Successful Run-Chases

• 228 vs LSG, Lucknow, 2025
• 215 vs South Australia, Bengaluru, CLT20, 2011
• 204 vs PBKS, Bengaluru, 2010
• 204 vs NSW, Bengaluru, CLT20, 2011
• 201 vs GT, Ahmedabad, 2024

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This effect pushed Gujarat Titans to 3rd place, mounting them up to look Mumbai Indians successful the eliminator connected Friday.

The winners of qualifier 1 beforehand straight to the last connected June 3. The losers get different chance, facing the eliminator’s victor successful qualifier 2 to determine who heads to Ahmedabad for the final.

Lucknow skipper Rishabh Pant ended with an unbeaten 118 disconnected 61 balls successful his team’s 227-3, but Bengaluru achieved the people with 8 balls to spare.

Kohli acceptable the instauration with his 30-ball knock. After his dismissal, stand-in skipper Jitesh Sharma enactment connected an unbeaten 107-run concern with Mayank Agarwal, who scored 41, surpassing Lucknow, who were already retired of the playoffs.

“I can’t explicit my thoughts; I can’t judge I played that knock," said subordinate of the lucifer Jitesh. “When Virat bhai (brother) got out, I was conscionable reasoning of taking it deep."

The 36-year-old Kohli, who earlier this period announced his status from Test cricket alongside Rohit Sharma, surpassed 9,000 runs for Bengaluru—the astir by a batsman for 1 squad successful men’s T20 cricket. The adjacent highest is Rohit’s 6,060 for Mumbai.

Kohli added 61 runs with opening spouse Phil Salt, who made 30, However, the pursuit wobbled aft Lucknow struck backmost with wickets, including New Zealand’s speedy Will O’Rourke taking 2 successful 2 balls.

O’Rourke dismissed regular skipper and interaction substitute Rajat Patidar for 14, and connected the adjacent ball, helium had Liam Livingstone limb earlier for a aureate duck.

Jitesh turned the crippled astir with his archetypal IPL fifty, hitting 8 fours and six sixes, including the winning deed implicit the obstruction successful his 33-ball knock.

(With inputs from Agencies)

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