IPL 2025 Final, RCB vs PBKS Narendra Modi Stadium Pitch Report, Ahmedabad Weather Forecast Today Match: After over 2 months of breathless action, we are finally set for the grand finale where Punjab Kings take on Royal Challengers Bengaluru in a match that is guaranteed to crown a new Indian Premier League champion. The teams are hardly stranger to each other having already faced 3 times this season with RCB winning 2 including the Qualifier 1 and PBKS winning one.
RCB, led by Rajat Patidar and PBKS led by Shreyas Iyer are poles apart in experience as captains in the finals. Iyer has guided three teams to the IPL final previously, winning once with the Kolkata Knight Riders last year. Meanwhile, Patidar was named captain in the beginning of this season. But both have their strengths as leaders which has lead them to this blockbuster clash.
RCB vs PBKS Pitch Report
The pitch is expected to be a mixed soil one which aids batting. The last time this pitch was used was when Punjab took on Gujarat Titans back in March and it was a run fest. The bowlers will not have a lot of joy in this surface but with the huge boundaries in the Narendra Modi Stadium, the batters will also have to be careful on how they hit the ball.
RCB vs PBKS weather report
In the last match played here on Sunday which was the Eliminator between PBKS and MI, the rain delayed the match by 2 hrs which led to the teams staring proceedings at 9.30 PM instead of 7.30 PM. The match ultimately didn’t lose any overs and ended around 1.30 AM on Sunday. There’s a slight chance of rain on the day of the final as well with Accuweather predicting a spell of showers during the afternoon. However, it does not carry over to the time of the match with the evening expected to be partly cloudy.
Squads:
Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Philip Salt, Virat Kohli, Mayank Agarawal, Rajat Patidar(c), Liam Livingstone, Jitesh Sharma(w), Romario Shepherd, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Yash Dayal, Josh Hazlewood, Suyash Sharma, Rasikh Dar Salam, Manoj Bhandage, Tim Seifert, Swapnil Singh, Tim David, Blessing Muzarabani, Nuwan Thushara, Mohit Rathee, Swastik Chikara, Abhinandan Singh
Punjab Kings: Priyansh Arya, Prabhsimran Singh, Josh Inglis(w), Shreyas Iyer(c), Nehal Wadhera, Shashank Singh, Marcus Stoinis, Azmatullah Omarzai, Kyle Jamieson, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal, Harpreet Brar, Suryansh Shedge, Praveen Dubey, Xavier Bartlett, Vishnu Vinod, Yash Thakur, Aaron Hardie, Kuldeep Sen, Mitchell Owen, Harnoor Singh, Musheer Khan, Pyla Avinash
