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 So, finally the end of IPL 2025 is near, with the final of the tournament scheduled to be played tomorrow 3rd June, 2025 between Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Punjab Kings at Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad. Both RCB and PBKS are aiming to win their 1st IPL title and have played fantastic cricket throughout the season because of which they will play IPL 2025 Final tomorrow. How both the teams are stacked up before the big finals? Let's find out. We will analyze the batting vs bowling of performance of both the teams against each other throughout the tournament and compare how the players perform one-on-one. PBKS Batting vs RCB Bowling The Big Final at Motera can be said a straight battle between RCB's bowling and PBKSs' batting and this claim is backed with stats. RCB is the best Powerplay Bowling Team in IPL 2025 with 26 wickets in 14 innings at an economy of 8.74. RCB tops the chart of wickets as well as economy in IPL 2025 and a lot of credit goes to the duo of Josh ...

 After 2 months, 1 week of break because of war and 70 matches, with 10 teams battling out with 1 another in the biggest T20 League of the world, we are finally heading towards the IPL Playoffs. This IPL was entertaining as always with multiple nail-bitters and stunning performances but it was also one of the most one-sided season as far as the playoffs qualification is concerned as the 4 Playoff Teams were decided 1 week before the completion of league stage. However, the order of the 4 teams got finalized yesterday after Royal Challengers Bengaluru defeated Lucknow Super Giants in a historic run-chase at Ekana Stadium, Lucknow. The 4 Playoffs Qualified teams are: Punjab Kings(PBKS), Royal Challengers Bengaluru(RCB), Gujarat Titans(GT) and Mumbai Indians(MI). PBKS & RCB will face each other in the Qualifier-1 at New PCA Stadium, Mullanpur on 29th May and the winner of this game will go straight into the finals. The loosing  team will still get 1 more shot to qualify for f...

 The last team we will discuss about in the IPL Team Review is Rajasthan Royals. Rajasthan Royals has had a roller-coaster IPL journey. They won the inaugral season in 2008 and then qualified for the playoff next time in 2013, missed out on playoffs spot because of loosing to MI in a high-voltage game at Wankhede and then again qualified to Playoffs in 2015 and crashed out of the tournament after loosing against RCB in eliminator. Then they faced a 2-year ban and then made a comeback in 2018. The 2018-21 phase was a dull one as they qualified only 1 time for playoffs and that too narrowly. Then, they changed their strategy after 2021 IPL and adopted an analytical approach towards, team-building, scouting and style-of-play. They were the most consistent team in 2022-24 IPL with their worst performance being a number 5 finish in the 2023 season. Ahead of the 2025 IPL Mega Auction, they retained their batting core of Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sanju Samson, Riyan Parag, Shimron Hetmyer and Dhr...

 The next team we will discuss about in the IPL Team Review is Punjab Kings. Punjab Kings is unarguably the most underperforming franchise in the history of IPL with only 2 playoffs appearances in 17 seasons and the team failed to win the trophy in both the seasons as well. Over the years, the Punjab Franchise have changed their captains, coaches, support staff members. players, jersey colours, logo and even renamed themselves as Punjab Kings in 2021 which earlier used to be Kings  X1 Punjab. But, the one thing that remains constant is group stage elimination. This time around PBKS went to the 2025 mega auction with a huge purse of 110.5 Cr with an intention to build a team from the scratch. They have a coach-captain combo of  Ricky Ponting and Shreyas Iyer. This duo had also revived the fate of Delhi Capitals in the 2019 season and turned an abysmal Delhi team into a top-notch cricket team. Can this duo do the same with Punjab Kings in 2025? Let's find out. We will do...

 The next team we will discuss about in the IPL Team Review is Delhi Capitals. Delhi Capitals' journey in IPL can be divided in 4 phases: 2008-2012, 2013-2018, 2019-2021 and 2022-2024. Capitals were a consistent franchise in the 1st phase with 3 playoff appearances in 5 seasons and narrowly missing out in 2010. The 2nd phase is the dullest phase in the history of this franchise with 0 playoff appearances in 6 consecutive seasons. The 3rd phase was the revival phase where Ricky Ponting as a coach revived the franchise with players like Rishabh Pant, Shreyas Iyer, Axar Patel, Kagiso Rabada, Anrich Nortje, Marcus Stoinis and Shimron Hetmyer alongside veterans like Shikhar Dhawan and R Ashwin. They came close to title 2 times but failed to win it. The 4th phase was a phase of misfortune where DC struggled with fitness issues of key players over the 3 seasons which saw them missing out narrowly 2 times for the playoffs berth in 2022 and 2024 while finishing at the bottom in 2023. This t...

 The next team we will discuss about in the IPL Team Review is Kolkata Knight Riders. Kolkata Knight Riders is the 3rd most successful team after MI and CSK with 3 titles. They were a top-class franchise during 2011-2018 with 2 titles and 4 other playoff appearances in 2011, 2016, 2017 and 2018. Then they became inconsistent in the 2019-2023 phase before again peaking in 2024 and winning  the tile in a dominating manner. In the 2025 IPL Mega Auction, they tried to buy back most of the players of their 2024 squad and managed to buy many of them. How does the KKR squad look for the 2025? Let's find out. We will do  a phase-wise analysis of batting and bowling of KKR 2025 squad members for the last 3 seasons of IPL and find out the strengths and weaknesses of KKR. Squad: Playing 11: Rahmanullah Gurbaz(wk), Sunil Narine, Ajinkya Rahane(c), Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Andre Russel, Ramandeep Singh, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakravarthy, Vaibhav Arora, Spencer Johnson Impact Player...