Rahul Tiwari
khelja|03-04-2025
RCB vs gt: The 14th match of IPL 2025 was played between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Gujarat Titans at M, Chinnaswamy Cricket Stadium. In this match, the Gujarat Titans (RCB Vs GT) won the match easily with the help of 8 wickets by bowling first and then a threatening performance in batting. This is the first defeat of this season of RCB under the captaincy of Rajat Patidar. Earlier, RCB defeated Chennai Super Kings and KKR in his house. But as soon as he reached his stronghold, he had to face the first defeat. Gujarat Titans captain Shubman Gill won the toss against RCB Vs GT and decided to bowl first. While batting first, RCB scored 169 runs losing 8 wickets in 20 overs at its home ground.
RCB Vs GT, who came out to bat first after losing the toss, was very poor. Former captain Virat Kohli, who came to opening, was dismissed by Arshad Khan by scoring 7 runs off 6 balls. After this, on the score of 13, Mohammad Siraj also bowled the Devdutt Padikkal and sent it to the pavilion behind Virat and after this, Phil Salat and captain Rajat Patidar also went on.
At one time, RCB Vs GT scored four wickets for 42 runs. But from here, Liam Livingstone handled the innings and batted with restraint and hit a half -century off 40 balls. At the same time, Jitesh Sharma scored 33 off 21 balls and Tim David scored 32 runs off 18 balls to bring RCB to a score of 169 in 20 overs. But despite this, he could not win his team.
Former RCB star fast bowler Mohammad Siraj bowled dangerous against his old team and told RCB how much mistake he had made by releasing them. In this match, Mohammad Siraj threw a total of four overs and took 3 wickets. He emerged as the most affordable bowler of Gujarat (RCB Vs GT). Apart from this, Arshad Khan. Famous Krishna, Ishant Sharma took one wicket each, while two wickets were taken by R Sai Kishore. At the same time, leg -spinner Rashid Khan proved to be the most expensive bowler of Gujarat, who took 54 runs in four overs with an economy of 13.50.
The 170 -run chase was as easy as it seemed on the pitch of Bangalore (RCB Vs GT), Bhuvneshwar Kumar took the wicket of Shubman Gill to make him very difficult in the beginning. But Jose Butler, who landed at number three, first shared a partnership with Sai Sudarshan and after his eyes set, the balls of RCB Vs GT started depositing the balls of the bowlers in the audience gallery. While Sudarshan scored 49 off 36 balls before being dismissed, Butler played an important role in winning his team by playing a stormy innings of 73 runs off 39 balls. At the same time, Sherfen Rutherford, who came to the crease as an impact player, also contributed to the team's victory by scoring 30 runs to face 18 balls.
Rajat Patidar chose Rasikh Salaam as an impact player, who gave 35 runs in 3 overs of his quota. If he had replaced a spinner, the chances of wicket could have increased as Suyash Sharma could have proved to be an effective bowler on this slow pitch, but in the end RCB had to face the first defeat of this season due to this mistake of Patidar. On the other hand, GT spinner Sai Kishore took two wickets for 22 runs in 4 overs on this pitch. If Suyash had come in place of Rasikh, the result of the match could have been in favor of RCB.