IPL 2025 Qualifier-1: Hazelwood- Suyash’s deadly bowling and Salt’s explosive batting, RCB defeated Punjab by 8 wickets and made a place in the finals
IPL 2025 PBKS vs RCB Highlights: Josh Hazelwood and Suyash Sharma’s killer-1 in the qualifier-1 of IPL 2025 played in Mullampur broke the back of Punjab Kings and the team was reduced to 101 runs. After this, Phil Salt played a stormy innings of 56 runs in just 27 balls and won Bangalore in 10 overs. RCB won the match by 8 wickets and confirmed its place in the final of IPL 2025. Bangalore’s dominance was completely seen in both balls and bat departments.
Qualifier-1 was completely named RCB. After losing the toss on the ground of Mullanpur, the condition of the Punjab team came out to bat first and became thin from the beginning. Yash Dayal played Priyansh Arya for just 7 runs and then Bhuvneshwar Kumar also sent Prabhasimran Singh to the pavilion.
After this Josh Hazelwood dismissed Shreyas Iyer (2) and English (4) and pushed Punjab to the backfoot. Till Powerplay, Punjab was 48 at 48 and then Suyash Sharma took two wickets in one over and destroyed Punjab’s expectations. Shashank Singh 3 and Mushir Khan could not even open the account.
Marcus Stoinis definitely fought a small battle of 26 runs, but Suyash also bowled him. The result was that the entire Punjab team was all out for 101 runs in just 14.1 overs. This is the second lowest score in IPL history.
For RCB, Josh Hazlewood took 3 wickets for 21 runs in 3.1 overs, while Suyash Sharma took 3 wickets for 17 runs in 3 overs. Yash Dayal also took 2 important wickets.
In response, RCB did not show any pity. The pair of Virat Kohli and Phil Salat started showering runs in the beginning. Kohli was definitely dismissed for 12 runs, but Salt’s storm continued. Mayank Agarwal was also dismissed by scoring 19 runs in 13 balls, but before that the work was almost done.
Salt played an unbeaten innings of 56 runs in 27 balls, including 6 fours and 3 sixes. RCB scored 102 runs in 10 overs and won the match by 8 wickets.
Now the RCB has reached the final directly, while Punjab will have to field again in Qualifier-2 on 1 June, where they will compete with the winner of the Eliminator.
