April 18 Nightmare: Kohli Falls for 1, RCB Crashes Below 100 — History Repeats After 18 Years

New Delhi. Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) has once again been embarrassed at home. Punjab Kings have stopped host RCB at a score of 95/9 in the IPL 2025 match. With this, an amazing coincidence has come to the fore in the Indian Premier League (IPL). RCB was all out for 82 runs on 18 April 2008, exactly 18 years ago. Virat Kohli was there in that match as well as in this match. Virat had scored one run then too and this time too he could not go beyond one run.

In IPL 2025, a match was played between hosts Royal Challengers Bangalore and Punjab Kings on Friday. This match was limited to 14-14 overs due to rain. After losing the toss, RCB came to bat first and under the pressure of scoring a big score, the team got scattered in such a way that the danger of scoring the lowest score started looming over them. Thanks to Tim David, who hit 3 consecutive sixes in the last over of the innings to take RCB to 95 runs.

Tim David scored his first fifty

RCB's lowest score at the home ground M. Chinnaswamy Stadium is 82 runs. Coincidentally, RCB had also made this score on 18 April (2008). Now on 18 April 2025, the RCB team was able to cross 90 runs with great difficulty. Royal Challengers Bangalore lost 9 wickets for 63 runs in this match against Punjab Kings. Tim David scored 21 runs in the last over to take the team to 95. He hit sixes on three consecutive balls of Harpreet Brar in this over. Tim David completed his fifty by scoring 2 runs on the last ball. This is also his first fifty in IPL.

RCB all out at 82 in reply to 222

Exactly 18 years before this match, the Indian Premier League started on 18 April in 2008. Then the first match of IPL was played between the host Royal Challengers Bangalore and Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR). KKR batted first and scored 222 runs for 3 wickets. New Zealand's Brendon McCullum played a stormy innings of 158 runs from his side. In response, Royal Challengers Bangalore, playing under the captaincy of Rahul Dravid, were all out for 82 runs in 15.1 overs. Praveen Kumar (18) was the only batsman of RCB who scored more than 10 runs.