1st match of IPL season 18 2025 was RCB V/S KKR at The Eden Gardens on 22 March 2025.
- Captain of RCB- Rajat Patidar.
- Captain of KKR- Ajinkya Rahane.
RCB wins the toss by choosing heads and choosing to ball first.
KKR inning:
As RCB chooses to ball first, KKR has to bat first. The opening partners are Sunil Narayan and Quinton de Kock.
1st wicket is of Quinton de Kock by Josh Hazlewood in the first over at only 4 runs.
In the Power play, KKR made 60 runs. Ajinkya Rahane also completed his half-century and was caught out by Rasikh Salam in the over of Krunal Pandya. He played very well as the team’s captain.
Wickets:
- 1 Wicket by Sunil Narayan of Devdutt Padikkal.
- 1 Wicket by Varun Chakravarthy of Phil Salt.
- 1 Wicket by Vaibhav Arora of Rajat Patidar.
KKR made 174 Runs(8 Wickets) in 20 overs and gave the target of 175 Runs to RCB.
RCB inning:
Opening partners- Virat Kohli and Phil Salt.
In Power play, RCB made 80 Runs. Phil Salt completed his half century and caught out by Spencer Johnson in over of Varun Chakravarthy.
Virat Kohli also completed his half-century.
Wickets:
- 3 Wickets by Krunal Pandya of Ajinkya Rahane, Venkatesh Iyer and Rinku Singh.
- 2 Wickets by Josh Hazlewood of Quinton de Kock and Harshit Rana.
- 1 Wicket by Suyash Sharma of Andre Russell.
- 1 Wicket by Rasikh Salam of Sunil Narayan.
- 1 Wicket by Yash Dayal of Angkrish Raghuvanshi.
RCB won this match by 177 Runs and 7 wickets (22 balls left).
Winning shot by Liam Livingstone.
So the winner of (RCB V/S KKR) 1st Match of IPL season 18 was RCB.
Tomorrow is the second and third match of IPL (SRH V/S RR at 3:30 pm).
(CSK V/S MI at 7:30 pm).
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