"He deserves it more Than Anyone Else" - Rajat Patidar's Special Words After RCB's IPL 2025 Win

The Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 has been a thrilling tournament, with fans enjoying intense matches as teams fought for the Playoffs with full intensity and dominance. IPL 2025 has come to its end after a long duration of more than 2 months of the game. The RCB vs PBKS Final was played at the Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad, which is a famous ground for providing good cricketing matches.

The RCB vs PBKS IPL Final 2025 has created history, as RCB lifted the IPL trophy for the first time in the 18 seasons of the IPL. RCB, looking tremendous from the start of the IPL with a record of winning all matches away from home, and finishing second on the points table. RCB, which is a team with a huge fan base, has shown its worth by playing proper cricket and contributions from each player of the team.

Rajat Patidar on Virat Kohli & RCB's Win

After the win, skipper Rajat Patidar was elated and emotional at the same time. As expected, Kohli dedicated the title to the team's talismanic cricketer, Virat Kohli, and the RCB fans. Patidar had special praise for RCB's bowlers and mentioned their crucial role in the team's historic victory. He ended his speech by saying the line that had been awaited for 18 years - Ee sala cup namdu. Here is the statement of Rajat Patidar on Virat Kohli after RCB's IPL win.

“It is really special for me, for Virat Kohli, and all the fans. Those who have supported for years, they all deserve it. After the Qualifier, we thought that we can go through. I think 190 was a good score on this track, as it was a bit slow. Bowlers executing their plans was tremendous to watch. Krunal is a wicket-taking bowler, I look for him whenever we need wickets," Patidar said.

"Suyash (Sharma) and the pacers were good all season. Shepherd gave the key wicket tonight. It's a great opportunity for me and a great learning for me to captain Kohli, he deserves it more than anyone else. I just want to say one line to all the fans - Ee sala cup namdu (This year, the cup is ours)," he added.

Credit given to Virat Kohli

Rajat Patidar gave all credit to Virat Kohli and dedicated this IPL 2025 title to him indirectly for all the years he has spent with RCB. Virat was one of the most successful captains, but couldn't get his hands on the trophy in his captaincy. This title, dedicated to Virat Kohli, is an answer to his statement that he has spent his entire career in RCB from his young career to his prime. This title was indeed more special to Virat and more deserving than anyone else.

Virat Kohli was left with only the IPL trophy to be added to his trophy cabinet, and he did after the long 18-year journey of struggle and disappointment. Virat was in tears as the match was ending, and after the last ball, he just sat on the ground with a sigh of relief and feeling of accomplishment, with full pride and excitement evident on his face. The win, which was the most special one in the career of Virat Kohli, that could be seen on his face as well as Rajat Patidar IPL 2025 win, will be remembered for years.

RCB Put Up Strong Total

RCB put a good total of 190 on the board against PBKS in the IPL 2025 final, where it looked like they were short of at least 20 runs according to the start they got in the innings. As Virat Kohli was anchoring the innings and trying to build partnerships, the score was looking to be much more than it was, but eventually he got out by Omarzai with a great bowling and catch. After his wicket, RCB was struggling to get a good total, but then Jitesh Sharma and Liam Livingstone came and played decent cameos, which helped RCB to put a defendable total in the end and fight back, allowing Rajat Patidar RCB win the IPL 2025.

RCB Bowlers Put Up a Strong Show

RCB started their bowling on a bad note, where PBKS openers were hitting them well in the powerplay and were looking to chase down the target well, but then a fabulous catch by Phil Salt dismissed Priyansh Arya, which helped RCB regain confidence within themselves and all were pumped on the big stage of the game.

Krunal Pandya was the key bowler in the final, where he bowled an economical spell of 2/17 in 4 overs with an economy of just 4.2, where he was bowling tight lengths and restricted PBKS batsmen from scoring runs against him, which put pressure on them, and they started losing wickets from the other end. Romario Shepherd took an important wicket in the final by dismissing Shreyas Iyer, who was in hot form, and allowed RCB to come back in the game. All RCB bowlers were impressive throughout the season and bowled well, along with the captaincy of Rajat Patidar RCB win the IPL 2025.