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What Happened The Last Time Rajat Patidar & Shreyas Iyer Faced Off In A T20 Final?
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Rajat Patidar and Shreyas Iyer lead their teams in the IPL 2025 final, aiming to end an 18-year title drought.
Royal Challengers Bengaluru skipper Rajat Patidar taking on his Punjab Kings counterpart Shreyas Iyer in the final of a T20 league isn't new. Crowned captains for the first time of both the franchises, Patidar and Iyer trumped some of the big names in the game and are now all set to break an 18-year-long title drought.
If we rewind around six months, Patidar and Iyer were going head-to-head in the finals of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, India's premier domestic tournament.
Much like IPL 2025, the duo had taken over captaincy responsibilities afresh in this season, with Patidar replacing Shubham Sharma, and Iyer his senior pro Ajinkya Rahane.
Iyer won the toss in the SMAT Final and put Madhya Pradesh in to bat first at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium. Having been retained by RCB, most of the stands were cheering for Patidar.
But MP were reduced to 6/2 in just the second over as Shardul Thakur picked both the openers. Subhranshu Senapati and Harpreet Singh then added 42 runs for the third wicket before the latter was dismissed by Atharva Ankolekar in the eighth over.
MP were soon reduced to 84/4 before Patidar and Venkatesh Iyer added 32 runs for the fifth wicket. The latter was dismissed by Suryansh Shedge in the 13th over, followed by a 56-run partnership for the sixth wicket between Patidar and Rahul Batham.
After the latter was dismissed by Royston Dias in the 18th over, MP couldn't build any more partnerships and managed to post 174/8 in their 20 overs, with Patidar scoring a 40-ball 81, at a stunning strike rate of 202.5.
In the chase, Mumbai lost Prithvi Shaw in the second over. Rahane and Shreyas then added 32 runs for the second wicket before the latter was dismissed by Tripuresh Singh in the fifth over.
Rahane and Suryakumar Yadav then built a match-winning 52-run partnership for the third wicket before Venkatesh dismissed the former in the 12th over.
Mumbai were soon reduced to 129/5 in the 15th over, before Ankolekar and Shedge added 41 runs for the sixth wicket to take their team over the line and bag the trophy.
First Published:
June 03, 2025, 09:13 IST
