IPL 2025: RCB entangled in home trap, hat -trick of necklace, equal to Chennai Super Kings record

New Delhi. Royal Challengers Bangalore have suffered a third consecutive defeat in their home in IPL 2025. Punjab Kings defeated RCB by 5 wickets on Friday. This is the fifth win in the Punjab Kings tournament. With this victory, she has reached the second number in the point table. At the same time, host RCB has slipped from third to fourth place. This is the third defeat in 7 matches of Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB).

Tim David scored 50 runs
The match of Royal Challengers Bangalore and Punjab Kings started at 9:45 pm with a delay of two and a half hours due to rain. For this reason, this match was made for 14-14 overs. Punjab Kings captain Shreyas Iyer won the toss and elected bowling first. Under pressure to score fast, the RCB team continued to lose wickets at intervals. Tim David scored an unbeaten innings of 50 runs in 26 balls with the help of five fours and three sixes in the midst of wickets. He shared an unbeaten 32 off 14 balls with Josh Hazlewood for the last wicket.

3 consecutive sixes off Harpreet’s ball
The team of Royal Challengers Bangalore had lost 9 wickets for 63 runs at one time. Tim David hit 3 consecutive sixes against Harpreet Brar in the last over to 95 runs. Apart from ‘Player of the Match’ David, only captain Rajat Patidar (23 runs off 18 balls) could score in the double figure. For Punjab, Arshdeep Singh, Marco Yansen, Yuzvendra Chahal and Harpreet Brar took two each while Xavier Bartlet took one wicket. Chahal and Yansen were quite economical. He gave only 11 and 10 runs in his quota of three overs respectively.

Chasing the target, Priyansh Arya (16) hit Yash Dayal and Prabhasimran Singh (13) hit fours against Bhubaneswar. Prabhasimran, however, was caught by David by playing celestial shots off Bhubaneswar. Arya sent Hazlewood’s ball to the audience in the next over. After these two tremors, the Punjab batsmen adopted a cautious attitude but English reduced the pressure against Krunal Pandya with two consecutive fours.

Hazlewood took two wickets in one over
Josh Hazlewood increased the problems of Punjab camp by dismissing captain Shreyas Iyer (seven) and English inside three balls in the eighth over. Vadhera, who came to the crease, was hit by Suyash Sharma on the first four balls, but this Khabu batsman gained confidence by hitting a four and six off the last two balls. Meanwhile, Bhubaneswar showed Shashank Singh (one) the path of the pavilion, but Vadhera also confirmed the victory of a six and four root team against him. For Punjab, Nehal Vadhera scored 33 runs in an unbeaten innings of 19 balls with the help of three sixes and the same fours. Hazelwood was the most successful bowler of RCB. He took three wickets for 14 runs. Bhuvneshwar Kumar got two successes.

Heavy RCB on the field of opposing teams
Royal Challengers Bangalore have equaled the unwanted records of Chennai Super Kings with this defeat. Prior to Bengaluru, Chennai team has also lost three consecutive matches in their house this season. However, the Bengaluru team has performed well on the opposing teams. RCB defeated KKR in Kolkata, RCB Chennai, Mumbai in Mumbai and Rajasthan Royals in Jaipur.