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RCB fans furious on choice of POTM: Indian Premier League 2025 champion Royal Challengers Bangalore team is performing strongly to defend its title. RCB’s last match was with Lucknow Supergiants, in which the team won easily. In this victory of RCB, young fast bowler Rasik Salam Dar showed a strong performance and took 4 wickets, but he did not get the Player of the Match.
Royal Challengers Bangalore team captained by Rajat Patidar is making waves in IPL 2026. RCB is also the defending champion and has won 4 out of its five matches played so far in the 19th season. The team’s last match was against Lucknow Supergiants, in which it won the match by 5 wickets with 29 balls remaining, but with this victory, a ruckus has also started.
Actually, despite the victory of RCB, the fans of the team are angry. The reason for his anger is the player of the match. Josh Hazlewood was chosen player of the match for his tight bowling against Lucknow. He took only 1 wicket for 20 runs in his four over spell, but RCB fans believe that Hazlewood did not deserve this award.
Apart from Hazlewood, young fast bowler Rasik Salam Dar bowled strongly in the match and took 4 wickets for 24 runs in four overs. Apart from this, experienced bowler Bhuvneshwar Kumar also took three wickets. In such a situation, fans are opening their front on social media and saying that Rasik Salam should have got the player of the match instead of Hazlewood, who bowled tightly and took only 1 wicket.
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Even amidst the celebration of victory, RCB fans are expressing their displeasure. Fans say that whatever happened happened, but at least continue to play Rasik Salam in the next matches and do not drop him from the playing eleven.
Let us tell you that Lucknow’s batting looked completely defeated in front of the lethal bowling of Rasik Salam. On behalf of Lucknow, Mitchell Marsh (40) and Mukul Chaudhary (39) struggled a bit, but they did not get the support of the other players. Due to this, Lucknow was all out for 146 runs in the stipulated 20 overs.
In response to this score of Lucknow, Virat Kohli made the path to victory easy for RCB by scoring 49 runs in 34 balls. Apart from this, Rajat Patidar (27) and Jitesh Sharma (23) also supported them, due to which Bengaluru won easily.
