Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) defeated Lucknow Super Giants by 6 wickets in the last league match of the Indian Premier League 2025 played at the Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow on Tuesday (May 27). With this spectacular win, RCB finished its journey at number one in the points table, that is, it will play against Punjab Kings in Qualifier 1. With the win in this match, many special records were registered in the name of RCB.

This has happened for the first time

In the league stage of the current season for RCB, Virat Kohli, Phil Salt, Jacob Bethel, Liam Livingstone, Rajat Patidar, Romario Shepherd, Krunal Pandya, Tim David, Devdutt Padikkal and Jitesh Sharma scored half-centuries. This is the first time in IPL history that 10 different players have scored half-centuries in a season.

First team to do so

Royal Challengers Bangalore has become the first team in IPL history to win all the matches outside the home ground in the league stage. Let us tell you that this season, they played seven matches outside their home ground and won all of them.

After being invited to bat first, the Lucknow team scored a huge score of 227 runs for the loss of 3 wickets. In which captain Rishabh Pant batted brilliantly and scored an unbeaten 118 runs in 61 balls, hitting 11 fours and 8 sixes. At the same time, opening batsman Mitchell Marsh scored 67 runs in 37 balls.

In response, RCB won easily by losing 4 wickets in 18.4. Top scorer was acting captain Jitesh Sharma with an unbeaten 85 runs in 33 balls, Virat Kohli played an innings of 54 runs in 30 balls. At the same time, Mayank Agarwal remained unbeaten after scoring 41 runs in 23 balls.