Picture Credit: BCCI/IPL
In pursuit of the 191-run target in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 final, Priyansh Arya, the Punjab Kings (PBKS) opener, lost his wicket in an attempt to clear the ropes on the bowling of Josh Hazlewood from Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB). The pull shot from the left-handed batter was timed reasonably well, but Phil Salt, who was stationed at the deep square leg boundary, ran more than 10 meters to grab hold of the ball.
With his momentum about to carry him over the boundary rope, Phil Salt had the presence of mind to lob the ball up in the air before coming back back into the playing area in the nick of time, to complete a superb catch. It led to Priyansh Arya’s decent innings of 24 runs in 19 balls with four fours coming to an abrupt end, and with that, PBKS were left 43/1 after five overs.
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Earlier, in their batting effort, RCB posted a competitive total of 190/9 on the board in the IPL 2025 final on the back of fiery cameos from the likes of Mayank Agarwal, captain Rajat Patidar, Liam Livingstone, and Jitesh Sharma at different stages of the innings. Meanwhile, opening batter Virat Kohli anchored the innings with his 43 runs in 35 balls with three fours.
Below are the playing squads of RCB and PBKS for the IPL 2025 final:
RCB: Phil Salt, Virat Kohli, Mayank Agarwal, Rajat Patidar (c), Liam Livingstone, Jitesh Sharma (wk), Romario Shepherd, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Yash Dayal, Josh Hazlewood
RCB impact bench: Suyash Sharma, Rasikh Dar, Manoj Bhandage, Tim Seifert, Swapnil Singh
PBKS: Priyansh Arya, Shreyas Iyer (c), Josh Inglis (wk), Nehal Wadhera, Shashank Singh, Marcus Stoinis, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Azmatullah Omarzai, Kyle Jamieson, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal
PBKS impact bench: Prabhsimran Singh, Xavier Bartlett, Harpreet Brar, Suryansh Shedge, Praveen Dubey
