Canadian rapper Drake, often known as Aubrey Drake Graham, has positioned a large $750,000 guess on the Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) to raise the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 trophy.
With this, the Rajat Patidar-led Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) would possibly change into the most recent sufferer of the ‘Drake Curse’ as at any time when Drake – some of the influential artists in hip-hop and R&B – helps a staff, it finally ends up on the dropping aspect.
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Can RCB lastly finish the title drought?
Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) shall be taking over the Punjab Kings (PBKS) within the closing of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 on the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on Tuesday, June 3.
Rajat Patidar-led RCB have displayed considered one of their finest performances within the historical past of the league to provide themselves the most effective probability to lastly finish the trophy drought within the 18th version of IPL.
A factor that has been very completely different for RCB in IPL 2025 has been the dearth of overdependence on one participant. There have been 9 heroes in 15 video games, and their journey to the summit conflict has been something however a one-man present.
They may again themselves to beat Shreyas Iyer-led Punjab Kings and shall be excessive on confidence after registering a dominant win over the identical staff in Qualifier 1.
The pinnacle-to-head file between RCB and PBKS has been even-steven as the 2 groups are locked at 18 wins every. Nevertheless, RCB have crushed PBKS in 5 of their final six encounters.
Rapper Drake goes berserk with $750,000 guess on RCB
Forward of the RCB vs PBKS closing, Drake took to his official Instagram deal with to disclose that he has positioned a $750,000 guess by way of Stake.com on the Royal Challengers Bengaluru to raise the cup. He wrote the caption: “Ee sala cup namde” on his Instagram publish.
Drake bets on RCB 😭 pic.twitter.com/1abOBnWtWf
— Kevin (@imkevin149) June 2, 2025
This comes as a giant blow for the Virat Kohli-starrer staff because the “Drake Curse” is a well known superstition in sports activities, the place followers imagine that any athlete or staff publicly supported by Drake suffers defeat.
The 6 God usually makes high-profile sports activities bets in partnership with Stake.com on sports activities similar to Formulation 1, UFC, Cricket, Soccer, NBA, Boxing and others and he misplaced extra usually than gained on a lot of his most publicized bets.
All I can say now’s Ee Sala Cup Namde – Mike Hesson
Lately, the previous Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) director of cricket, Mike Hesson, took to his Instagram to precise his assist for the Rajat Patidar-led aspect and backed them to raise the trophy.
“Two of my outdated groups #rcb & #pbks do battle within the @iplt20 Last.. I can actually say I didn’t decide both finalist initially of the season that stated I’m delighted I used to be flawed and a brand new title shall be engraved on the trophy…… .
“So many gamers and employees at @royalchallengers.bengaluru have been ready for this chance to do one thing particular for the trustworthy followers, Tuesday night time they are going to be prepared. I for one shall be supporting from afar. All I can say now’s Ee Sala Cup Namde ❤️ . #eesalacupnamde #iplfinal #rcbvpbks,” he wrote in a publish on his Instagram deal with.
