Royal Challengers Bangalore excluded Chennai Super Kings in the heart-moved thriller in the match number 52 of IPL 2025 and went to the top of the points table.
RCB lost the fifth toss in five matches at home in this IPL season and was put in the fifth match. Jacob Bethel (33 runs 33) and Virat Kohli (33 runs 33 runs) completely started RCB, but their mid -order could not proceed. Mathisha Pathirana (3 for 36) ruined the middle order and then started the Romario Shepherd Show. Shepherd (53* 14) destroyed boundaries in the last two overs to carry RCB in the last two overs which looked safe in half a time.
RCB also made a strong debut in Powerplay with the ball, but Ayush Monthre (94 out of 48) showed all its skills on performance. Matre hit five fours and one is six distance over Bhuvneshwar Kumar. Ravindra Jadeja (from 77* 45) also took the game away from RCB. Playing his first IPL match in four years, Lungi cash kept the door open for RCB. NGIDI (3 for 20) drove Matre and Developed Brevis away from gradual balls and was one in RCB. Brevis's dismissal eventually became controversial.
After being far ahead among the sides, Yash Dayal was assigned to save him from 15 runs in the last over. The first three balls saw two runs and MS Dhoni's wickets. Along with the requirement of 13 runs from three balls, Shivam Dubey sent a beMar for six. Beermer was originally called either. With the requirement of six runs from three balls, Dayal only accepted the single as RCB was home by 2 runs.
Here are the most important numbers from the match
1 – M. of Bengaluru. Virat Kohli's 154 sixes at the Chinnaswamy Stadium are the highest by a player in any stadium in all T20s. The previous record was Chris Gayle's 149 in the same ground.
1 – Virat Kohli is the first batsman to score 8,500 runs in the IPL. Rohit Sharma is one away with 6,921.
1 – Virat Kohli is now the highest joint fifties in the IPL. His 62 are as much as David Warner received.
1 – 2025 is now the eighth IPL season where Virat Kohli has collected 500 runs or more. These are the most seasons by the player to be second in David Warner's seven.
1 – Virat Kohli's 1,146 runs against CSK in the IPL are the highest by a player against a single franchise in the Marki League. In close quarters – David Warner against PBKS with 1,134, 1,130 DC with Kohli and 1,104 with 1,104 with Kohli 1,104.
1 – The rate of Khalil Ahmed's 21.67 economy is the worst in an IPL innings of a minimum of three overs. Each of the top three entries on this list is from IPL 2025. The next is the worst Joffra Archer, scoring 196 runs with 19, scoring 76 runs in his four overs against Sunrisers Hyderabad in the first season.
1 – Despite the fact that he bowled only three overs in this match, Khalel Ahmed's 65 is the highest run by CSK bowler in an IPL match. The previous record was of Lungi Cash, which in 2021 accepted 62 in his four overs against MI. The game was the last of NGIDI in the IPL before this one.
2 – Romio Shepherd's 14-Gunds are the second fastest combined in fifty IPL history. Yashasvi Jaiswal got fifty in 13 balls against KKR in 2023, while in 2018, KL Rahul against Delhi Capital and Patt Cummins 14 against MI in 2022.
1 – Shepherd's 14-Gunds were the fastest for RCB in fifty IPL. Prior to Shepherd, the record was conducted by Chris Gayle, who reached fifty in 17 balls during his prestigious 175* against Pune Warriors in 2013.
3 – Khalil Ahmed's 19th over of 33 runs for Shepherd is the most time in IPL history. The top location is shared by two overs, who went for every 37 runs-by Prasanth Parmeswaran against RCB in 2011 and Harshal Patel against CSK in 2022. Daniel Sams bowled 35 runs against MI in 2022, while in 2010, Ravi Bopra against KKR and Parvinder Awan against CSK in 2014 also 33-Run over.
3 In Thsi's innings, Shepherd's strike rate is the third largest in an IPL innings of 378.57 to face the minimum 10 balls. Shepherd topped the list after scoring 39 runs in 10 balls at a strike rate of 390 against Delhi Capital last year. Abhishek Sharma is in second place, who scored 46 runs in 12 balls at a strike rate of 383.33, also against Capital in 2024.
4 – This match was the fourth example where three different batsmen created the fifty for RCB in the IPL match. Only other teams with only two such examples are SRH and CSK.
3 – Ayush Matre became the second youngest player to score fifty at the age of 17 years and 291 days. The top two have been taken by the slower Suryavanshi, which was 14 years and 32 days during its hundreds of massacres earlier this year, and Ryan Parag, who was 17 years and 175 days old, who scored fifty against CSK in 2019.
1 – CSK is not known to invest in very young players, and shows it. The IPL for Mhatre CSK became the first teenager to score fifty. The last youngest player to score fifty IPL for CSK was Suresh Raina, who was over 21 years of age in 2008.
3 – MS Dhoni became the third player to hit 50 sixes against the same franchise in the IPL. Dhoni violated the mark against RCB, while Chris Gayle did against both Punjab Kings and KKR. Rohit Sharma also has fifty sixes against Delhi's capitals in the IPL.
1 – For the first time, RCB defeated him in both league stage matches in the season to complete a season double on CSK.
2 – RCB's 2-run win-wins in the IPL case in the IPL is his lowest second. RCB won Punjab Kings in 2016, CSK in 2019 and Delhi Capital in 2021. RCB's other two runs won against MI in 2013.
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