RCB's Road To IPL 2025 Qualifier 1: Dominant Away Run Fuels Top-Two Finish

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Last Updated:May 28, 2025, 17:46 IST

Royal Challengers Bengaluru secured a top-two decorativeness successful IPL 2025 by defeating Lucknow Super Giants, and volition look Punjab Kings successful Qualifier 1.

RCB won 9 of their 14 league games to scope Qualifier 1.(AP Photo)

Royal Challengers Bengaluru secured a top-two decorativeness by defeating Lucknow Super Giants successful the last radical crippled of IPL 2025.

RCB, inactive successful pursuit of their maiden title, looks promising this year. They volition present look the Punjab Kings, the table-toppers, successful Qualifier 1. A triumph successful this playoff fixture volition unafraid them a nonstop spot successful the final.

RCB has precocious past the league signifier 9 times since 2008. They person reached the IPL last twice, successful 2011 and 2016, but mislaid connected some occasions to Chennai Super Kings and Sunrisers Hyderabad, respectively.

Brisk Start:

Royal Challengers Bengaluru started their IPL 2025 run with a bang. They comfortably bushed defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders successful the tourney opener and maintained their dominance successful the 2nd lucifer against Chennai Super Kings.

After 2 consecutive wins, RCB faced their archetypal decision of the play against Gujarat Titans, who bushed them by 8 wickets. The squad bounced backmost successful the consequent lucifer against the Mumbai Indians but showed immoderate inconsistency successful the mediate phase. They secured 3 victories successful their adjacent 5 matches earlier hitting a winning streak.

Struggle At Home:

Despite their beardown show successful distant games, RCB struggled connected location turf successful the archetypal fractional of the league stage. They mislaid 3 of their archetypal 7 matches, each of which were astatine Bengaluru’s M Chinnaswamy Stadium.

However, RCB made a beardown comeback aft losing to Punjab Kings astatine location successful a rain-affected match. In their past 7 games, they secured 5 wins and lone mislaid to Sunrisers Hyderabad successful the penultimate game. Their distant crippled against KKR astatine Kolkata’s Eden Gardens was washed retired owed to rain.

Last-Gasp Entry Into Top-Two:

RCB needed to bushed Lucknow successful the last lucifer to unafraid a 2nd accidental successful the IPL 2025 playoffs. Virat Kohli erstwhile again proved his prowess connected large occasions. After LSG acceptable a challenging 228-run people with a period from Rishabh Pant, Kohli provided a superb commencement for RCB.

The prima Indian batter scored 54 disconnected 30 balls, laying the instauration for a palmy chase. During his innings, Kohli besides reached 9,000 runs successful the IPL, becoming the lone batter to execute this milestone for a T20 team. He is besides successful contention for the Orange Cap, needing 77 much runs to clinch the apical spot.

The Qualifier 1 betwixt RCB and PBKS volition beryllium held astatine the PCA Stadium successful New Chandigarh connected Thursday, May 29. The losing squad volition look the victor of the Eliminator betwixt Gujarat Titans and Mumbai Indians successful the 2nd qualifier connected June 1.

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