Ahmedabad: After 70 league video games and three knockout matches, the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 is about to get its new winner as Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) and Punjab Kings (PBKS) have weathered all storms to arrange a title conflict at Narendra Modi Stadium right here on Tuesday. In a battle of titans, the Rajat Patidar-led RCB will maintain a bonus over their opponents as they thrashed them by eight wickets in Qualifier 1 in Mullanpur in New Chandigarh to seal the direct entry to the ultimate.
Nevertheless, Punjab had their approach of bouncing again from the setback towards Mumbai Indians in Qualifier 2, courtesy of Shreyas Iyer’s blistering 87 not out to maintain their dream of successful a maiden title alive. On paper, each groups are equally poised in batting and bowling. Punjab boasts a top-heavy batting line-up with the likes of uncapped duo Priyansh Arya and Prabhsimran Singh supported by skilled campaigners Josh Inglis, Iyer, Nehal Wadhera, Shashank Singh and Marcus Stoinis.
Then again, RCB banked on the seasoned opening pair of Virat Kohli and Phil Salt, backed by a powerful line-up of batters together with captain Rajat Patidar, Liam Livingstone, Jitesh Sharma, and Krunal Pandya.
Within the bowling division, Josh Hazlewood has been spearheading with 21 scalps together with Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Yash Dayal, whereas Suyash Sharma and Krunal Pandya are main their spin bowling.
Then again, Arshdeep Singh and Kyle Jamieson will shoulder the pace-bowling duty with Stoinis, Azmatullah Omarzai, and Vijaykumar Vyshak supporting them. Yuzvendra Chahal and Harpreet Brar will lead their spin-bowling division.
Apparently, each RCB and PBKS suffered a batting collapse within the season towards one another. First, it was RCB who faltered towards Punjab in a league stage conflict on the M Chinnaswamy Stadium, whereas in Qualifier 1, it was the house aspect that had a disastrous batting efficiency in New Chandigarh.
Because the match reaches its end result, one can hope for a pulsating encounter between the 2 finest sides of the 2025 season. It has been a protracted await either side to achieve the ultimate of the cash-rich league. Punjab final appeared within the summit conflict in 2014, whereas RCB featured within the title conflict in 2016, earlier than dropping to their neighbours, Sunrisers Hyderabad. That is additionally the primary time since 2022 that the match can have a brand new winner.
