{"id":69172,"date":"2026-05-31T18:09:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T18:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/?p=69172"},"modified":"2026-05-31T18:09:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T18:09:32","slug":"rcb-clinch-back-to-back-ipl-titles-in-historic-triumph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/?p=69172","title":{"rendered":"RCB Clinch Back-to-Back IPL Titles in Historic Triumph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) won the IPL title for the second consecutive year, becoming only the third team in tournament history to secure back-to-back championships after Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians.<\/p>\n<p>In the final, legendary batter Virat Kohli played a match-winning unbeaten knock of 75 runs and sealed the victory in style by smashing the winning six.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1-261-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-69173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1-261-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1-261-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1-261-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1-261-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1-261.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <\/p>\n<p> Venkatesh Iyer also contributed an important 32 runs to help RCB chase the target.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Gujarat Titans (GT) posted 155 runs for the loss of 8 wickets in their allotted overs, with Washington Sundar scoring a valuable half-century. For RCB, Rasikh Salam starred with the ball, taking three wickets, while Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Josh Hazlewood claimed two wickets each.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) won the IPL title for the second consecutive year, becoming only the third team in tournament history to secure back-to-back championships after Chennai Super Kings and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/?p=69172\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69175,"href":"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69172\/revisions\/69175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/69174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}