Punjab Kings captain Shreyas Iyer has won the toss and elected to bowl first against Royal Challengers Bengaluru in the IPL 2025 Final. “We will bowl first. I feel it is an amazing day. The crowd is electrifying. The boys are in brilliant shape. You will get the best result if you stay calm. This is what I have been saying in my interviews. It is a big occasion, and we will play like a final. It is going to be a tremendous achievement if we lift the trophy,” Shreyas Iyer said.
RCB skipper Rajat Patidar wanted to bowl first as well. “We also wanted to bowl first. The surface looks hard, and we will have to put a big score on the board. We have played good cricket. It is another game for us. It is a big stage, but we are taking it as an away game. The pitch looks good,” Rajat Patidar said.
Royal Challengers Bengaluru XI: 1 Phil Salt, 2 Virat Kohli, 3 Mayank Agarwal, 4 Rajat Patidar (capt), 5 Liam Livingstone, 6 Jitesh Sharma (wk), 7 Romario Shepherd, 8 Krunal Pandya, 9 Bhuvneshwar Kumar, 10 Yash Dayal, 11 Josh Hazlewood
RCB impact bench: Suyash Sharma, Rasikh Dar, Manoj Bhandage, Tim Seifert, Swapnil Singh
Punjab Kings XI: 1 Priyansh Arya, 2 Shreyas Iyer (capt), 3 Josh Inglis (wk), 4 Nehal Wadhera, 5 Shashank Singh, 6 Marcus Stoinis, 8 Vijaykumar Vyshak, Azmatullah Omarzai, 9 Kyle Jamieson, 10 Arshdeep Singh, 11 Yuzvendra Chahal
PBKS Impact bench: Prabhsimran Singh, Xavier Bartlett, Harpreet Brar, Suryansh Shedge, Pravid Dubey