IPL Qualifier 1: The first qualifier match of IPL 2025 was played between Punjab Kings (PBKS) and Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB). Punjab Kings have suffered an embarrassing defeat against Bengaluru at their home ground against Bangalore. After winning the match, Bengaluru made it to the IPL final after 9 years. Punjab, captained by Shreyas Iyer, will have a chance to win the final by winning the qualifier-2. Keeping this in mind, captain Shreyas Iyer said that we have lost the fight but not war.
Shreyas Iyer spoke after the match
After the crushing defeat against Bengaluru, Punjab Kings captain Shreyas Iyer said, “This forgetting day, but we have to go back to the drawing board, we were confused and we were confused and lost a lot of wickets, I could go back and understood something, there is no doubt on our decisions in planning, it was absolutely right outside the field, it was not right, we could not implement, we could not convince us, we could not guilty, Will have to work on batting. There was a unstable bounce in all matches here, it cannot make such excuses, because we are professional, we have to work accordingly, we have lost the fight but not war.
Punjab’s bad batting in the match
The first qualifier match of the IPL was played at Mullanpur Stadium in Mohali. In the match, RCB won the toss and decided to bowl. In this match, Punjab’s batting was neither good nor was there a edge in bowling. Punjab Kings landed on the field for the first batting. The team’s batting looked very bad. Punjab lost 10 wickets for 101 runs in just 14.1 overs. During this, Marcus Stoinis scored 26 runs in 17 balls with the help of 2 fours and 2 sixes in 17 balls, playing the biggest innings for the team. Ajmatullah Umarjai (18) and Prabhasimran Singh (18) crossed the double figure. All other batsmen could reach the score of single digit only.
