Royal Challengers Bangalore fans would not have thought that their batsmen would be seen struggling in the very first match of IPL 2025 at their home ground. The bowlers of Gujarat Titans performed brilliantly and stopped Bangalore from scoring big. The fast bowlers of Shubman Gill's team kept the Bangalore batsmen tied down. But despite this, the team had to pay the loss of one of its mistakes in the form of a 'penalty' of 45 runs. Gujarat made this mistake not once, but many times, and Livingstone as well as Gujarat benefited from it.

On Wednesday, April 2, Royal Challengers Bangalore and Gujarat Titans clashed at the Chinnaswamy Stadium. In this match, Bangalore batted first and the fast bowlers of Gujarat defeated the team in the beginning. Bangalore took 4 wickets of Bangalore by the 7th over, while only 42 runs were scored. At such a time, all eyes were on Liam Livingstone and he also played a strong innings.

The catch was dropped on 9 runs.

But during his innings, the Gujarat players made such a mistake, for which the team had to pay the penalty in the form of extra runs. Actually, in the 11th over of the innings, Livingstone played a very high shot in the air on the ball of left-arm bowler R Sai Kishore. But Rahul Tewatia, who was near the boundary, dropped this catch and Livingstone got a lifeline. At that time, this batsman was playing on just 9 runs. Livingstone returned after this by scoring a fighting half-century.

Repeated mistakes, resulted in a loss of 45 runs.

But the Gujarat players did not make this mistake even once. Even after this, they were kind to Livingstone. In the 14th over, wicketkeeper Jos Buttler missed a stumping opportunity. He was then on 21 runs. Then in the 18th over, Sai Kishore dropped Livingstone's catch on the boundary on Rashid Khan's ball and the ball went for 6 runs. At that time he was on 35 runs. In total, Livingstone got 3 lives. Eventually, he returned to the pavilion after scoring 54 runs. That means if Gujarat had caught Livingstone earlier, Livingstone would not have been able to add 45 more runs to his account and Bangalore's innings would not have reached even 169 runs.

PC Social media