The fans of Royal Challengers Bangalore would not have thought that their batsmen will be seen struggling in their home ground in the first match of IPL 2025. The Gujarat Tiers bowlers stopped Bangalore with a big score, performing tremendously. Shubman Gill's team's fast bowlers tied the Bengaluru batsmen. But despite this, the team had to pay the loss of one of its mistakes as a 'fine' of 45 runs. Gujarat did not make this mistake once, but many times and it was also benefited by Gujarat as well as Gujarat.

Royal Challengers Bangalore and Gujarat Titans collided at the Chinnaswamy Stadium on Wednesday 2 April. In this match, Bengaluru batted first and the Gujarat fast bowlers defeated the team's condition in the beginning. Bengaluru dropped 4 wickets of Bengaluru till the 7th over, while the runs were only 42. At such a time, Liam Livingston was eyeing and he also played a strong innings.

Catch catch for 9 runs

But during his innings, the players of Gujarat made such a mistake, whose penalty had to be filled as additional runs. In fact, in the 11th over of the innings, Livingstone played a very high shot in the air off the ball of left -handed bowler R Sai Kishore. But Rahul Tewatia, who was near the boundary, left this catch and Livingston got a life. At that time, this batsman was playing on only 9 runs. Livingstone returned after this only after creating a combative half -century.

Frequent mistake, loss of 45 runs

But the players of Gujarat did not make this mistake just once. Even after this, he was kind to Livingston. In the 14th over, wicketkeeper Joss Butler left the opportunity for stumping. Then he was on 21 runs. Then in the 18th over, Sai Kishore left Livingstone's catch on the boundary off Rashid Khan and the ball went for 6 runs. At that time he was on 35 runs. Overall, Livingston got 3 life. Eventually he returned to the pavilion after scoring 54 runs. That is, if Gujarat had already taken a catch of Livingstone, Livingston could not add 45 runs to his account and Bangalore's innings would not have reached even 169 runs.