Royal Challengers Bangalore, which made a strong start of IPL 2025, has suffered the first defeat. Bengaluru, who won 2 consecutive matches on grounds like Kolkata and Chennai, got this defeat at his own home M Chinnaswamy Stadium, where this was the team's first match in this season. In the 14th match of this season played on Wednesday 2 April, the Gujarat Titans, captained by Shubman Gill, defeated Bengaluru by 8 wickets without any trouble. The special thing is that the star fast bowler of this victory of Gujarat proved to be Mohammad Siraj, who was part of RCB for 7 consecutive years before this season.

Prior to this match, RCB was heavy in the collision of Bengaluru and Gujarat, who won 3 out of 5 matches. In such a situation, Gujarat had a chance to get equal and Gill's team showed this. This victory of Gujarat was laid by his fast bowlers, who demolished the top order of Bengaluru in the powerplay itself. However, his fielding definitely disappointed during this time, but still the bowlers had already made the work easy.

The most eagerness about this match was for the competition of Siraj and Virat Kohli, but in Kohli's second over, Arshad Khan could not see anything like this. Siraj, however, gave hurt to himself and his old team fans present at the Chinnaswamy Stadium. By the seventh over, Bengaluru had lost 4 wickets for 42 runs, which included batsmen like Kohli, Phil Sold and captain Rajat Patidar. In this too, Siraj took 2 wickets for just 15 runs in 3 overs.

This attack of Siraj also took advantage of bowlers like famous Krishna and Sai Kishore. Especially explosive batsman Liam Livingstone appeared in trouble. On the other hand, Jitesh Sharma definitely carried forward the team's score by playing a strong innings. However, during this time Gujarat gave 3 opportunities to Livingston and they took advantage of this by playing an important innings of 54 runs. In the end, Tim David grinded 32 runs in just 18 balls to bring Bengaluru to a worth 169 runs. Siraj took 3 wickets for just 19 runs.

In the last two matches, RCB bowlers, who bowled the best in the powerplay, could not have the same impact this time. Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Josh Hazlewood bowled some tightly but the pair of Sai Sudarshan and captain Shubman Gill also took a boundary by taking an aggressive stance. However, Bhuvneshwar did not let Gill move much further and the first wicket fell on the score of 32. But after this, Sai Sudarshan and Joss Butler did not give Bangalore a chance to return after handling the innings.

In the 13th over, Bengaluru changed the ball and Josh Hazlewood stopped Sai Sudarshan with a half -century. But this did not affect the match because the result of the match was almost fixed. Butler had come in his aggressive form. The rest was also Sharanfen Rutherford to support him, who shared an unbeaten 63 run with Butler to reach the team in 17.5 overs. Butler scored an unbeaten 73 in just 39 balls, including 5 fours and 6 sixes. Rutherford returned unbeaten after scoring 30 runs in 18 balls.