IPL 2025: Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru – Stats Preview

Punjab Kings and Royal Challengers Bengaluru will take on each other for a place in the final at the Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium, Mullanpur, Chandigarh, in the ongoing IPL 2025 on Thursday. 

These two teams have ticked the right boxes for the major part of the season and they have been coming up with a collective effort. Shreyas Iyer has been phenomenal as a leader, whereas Rajat Patidar’s form has gone down a bit in the last few games.

Both of these teams had won one match apiece when they faced each other earlier in the season.

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PBKS captain Shreyas Iyer needs six sixes to complete 150 maximums in the tournament.

PBKS opener Priyansh Arya needs two fours to complete 50 boundaries in the IPL.

Marcus Stoinis needs seven wickets to complete 50 scalps in the tournament. The Australian needs eight runs to complete 2000 runs.

Virat Kohli needs nine sixes to become the second batter to complete 300 sixes in the IPL.

Phil Salt needs 16 runs to complete 1000 runs in the IPL.

Mayank Agarwal needs two sixes to complete 100 maximums in the tournament.

Bhuvneshwar Kumar needs five scalps to complete 200 wickets in the IPL. He will become the first fast bowler in IPL history to reach the milestone.

Punjab Kings Squad: Priyansh Arya, Prabhsimran Singh(w), Shreyas Iyer(c), Nehal Wadhera, Josh Inglis, Shashank Singh, Glenn Maxwell, Marco Jansen, Xavier Bartlett, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Suryansh Shedge, Yash Thakur, Harpreet Brar, Praveen Dubey, Pyla Avinash, Musheer Khan, Harnoor Singh, Kuldeep Sen, Azmatullah Omarzai, Aaron Hardie, Vishnu Vinod, Marcus Stoinis.

Royal Challengers Bengaluru Squad: Philip Salt, Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar(c), Liam Livingstone, Jitesh Sharma(w), Tim David, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Josh Hazlewood, Suyash Sharma, Yash Dayal, Mayank Agarwal, Rasikh Dar Salam, Manoj Bhandage, Jacob Bethell, Swapnil Singh, Abhinandan Singh, Swastik Chikara, Mohit Rathee, Nuwan Thushara, Romario Shepherd.