New Delhi. Punjab Kings have confirmed the place in the IPL 2025 playoffs. Punjab Kings, playing under the captaincy of Shreyas Iyer, defeated Rajasthan Royals by 10 runs in a very exciting match on Sunday. With this victory, the Punjab team has got 17 points in the point table. Virat Kohli's team Royal Challengers Bangalore has also qualified for the playoffs with 17 points.

Sunday was the day of double header in IPL 2025. Two matches were played on this day. The first match was played between Punjab Kings and Rajasthan Royals. Punjab Kings scored a huge score of 219 runs for 5 wickets while batting first in this match. Despite this, he did not win easily. Rajasthan Royals scored 190 runs for 5 wickets in 18 overs. At that time Dhruv Jurael and Shubham Dubey were present at the crease. The party of Rajasthan seemed to be the contenders for victory. But Arshdeep Singh snatched the victory from Rajasthan Royals by bowling brilliantly in the 19th and Marco Yanseen.

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Arshdeep overturned in 19th over
Arshdeep Singh conceded just 8 runs in the 19th over. In this way, Rajasthan Royals needed 22 runs to win in the last over. This goal was not easy by Marco Yanseen's ball. Yansen ended the intentions of Rajasthan by dismissing Dhruv Jurlel (53) on the third ball of the over and Vanindu Hasranga (0) off the fourth ball.

Water on the hard work of Yashasvi-Suryavanshi
With this, the innings of Rajasthan Royals batter Yashasvi Jaiswal (50) and Vaibhav Suryavanshi (40) became useless. Both these batters gave a great start to Rajasthan Royals by making a 76 -run opening partnership in just 29 balls. Captain Sanju Samson also scored 20 runs. Harpreet Brar shocked the highest three wickets for Punjab Kings. Marco Yansen and Ajmatullah Omrajai took 2-2 wickets.

Nehal and Shashank passed 200
Earlier, Punjab Kings scored 219 runs with the help of the best innings of Nehal Vadhera (70) and Shashank Singh (59). Punjab Kings lost 3 wickets for 34 runs at one time. Despite this, his batter did not come under pressure and kept scoring fast. This is the first time that a team has scored more than 215 runs after losing 3 wickets for 34 runs in the IPL.