IPL 2024, PBKS vs RCB Highlights: Bengaluru cruise to 60-run win, Punjab knocked out

IPL 2024, PBKS vs RCB Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Cleans him up! Jitesh Sharma with a four off the third ball, then a dot and then a ripping legbreak from Karn. Bursts through Jitesh's gates and the stumps are a mess. 

Jitesh Sharma b Karn 5 (4)

PBKS vs RCB Live Score: PBKS 125/4 in 11 overs

IPL 2024, PBKS vs RCB Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: He gets treatment and then sets up to face the next ball. Tries a big shot, ends up holing out at long-on.

Rossouw c Jacks b Sharma 61 (27)

PBKS vs RCB Live Score: PBKS 107/3 in 9 overs

IPL 2024, PBKS vs RCB Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Karn Sharma's fifth delivery of the ninth has effectively landed an uppercut on Rossouw here. Rossouw tries to reverse sweep, it went off his arm and ricochets onto his cheek. That is a painful blow and the physio is out to tend to him.

PBKS vs RCB Live Score: PBKS 107/2 in 8.5 overs

IPL 2024, PBKS vs RCB Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Rossouw trying to make sure that PBKS stay in sight of the required run rate. He gets a top edge off the second ball of the ninth from Green, it flies behind the wicketkeeper for a four. Then he launches the third ball over the bowler's head for a six and that brings up his fifty in 21 balls. He does that bazooka celebration of his after that.

IPL 2024, PBKS vs RCB Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: PBKS would've dropped that. He pre-empts Bairstow's shot fifth ball and starts to run back, sure enough the ball does travel that way off the bat and Du Plessis dives full stretch to complete it. Extraordinary stuff from the RCB captain.

Bairstow c du Plessis b Ferguson 27 (16)

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score: PBKS 71/2 in 5.5 overs

IPL 2024, PBKS vs RCB Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Rossouw takes Siraj to town. Four through point first ball, then a dot and then the third delivery is smashed down the ground for another four. A dot ball again and then Rossouw deposits a pitched up delivery through long off for a third boundary of the over. He then hits the next ball for six over deep midwicket.

PBLS vs RCB Live Score: PBKS 45/1 in  4 overs

IPL 2024, PBKS vs RCB Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Bairstow with a four off the second ball towards midwicket, and then three runs off the last three balls of the over. A wicket may have come in the first over but so did 14 runs, Siraj does a better job of it in the second.

PBKS vs RCB Live Score: PBKS 21/1 in 2 overs

IPL 2024, PBKS vs RCB Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Prabhsimran Singh caught LBW plumb in front. For some reason he has a chat with Jonny Bairstow before deciding to walk off. That is as out as they come. Swapnil slides the third ball in with the angle, Prabh misses that completely and it raps him on the pads. Umpire raises his finger and Prabhsimran has a chat with Bairstow before walking off.

Prabhsimran lbw b Swapnil Singh 6 (4)

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score: PBKS 6/1 in 0.4 overs

IPL 2024, PBKS vs RCB Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Prabhsimran Singh and Jonny Bairstow open the batting for Punjab Kings. RCB start with spin as Swapnil Singh takes the new ball.

IPL 2024, PBKS vs RCB Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Well the gauntlet has been thrown, PBKS will have to somehow chase down 242 runs if they want to stay in the race for the playoffs. Well that was some innings from RCB, powered chiefly by a marauding Virat Kohli. He scored 92 at a strike rate of 196.74, as good a T20 innings as you would every hope to see, helped by the fact that he was dropped twice of course. But he has shown why it is a cardinal sin to give him chances, regardless of the format. Vidyuth Kaveerappa has been subbed out by PBKS. He was brilliant on debut with the new ball and would've had much more than the two wickets against his name had it not been for his teammates woeful display in the field today.

IPL 2024, PBKS vs RCB Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Harshal Patel ensures that DK doesn't do more damage than he already has. The batter slices the first ball of the 20th into the fielder at long on.

Karthik c Curran b Arshdeep Singh 18 (7)

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score: RCB 238/5 in 19.1 overs

IPL 2024, PBKS vs RCB Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Kohli's wicket might in fact work in RCB's favour as he has been replaced by Dinesh Karthik for the last two overs, exactly the time when he is most effective. DK ends the 18th with a six, which makes it 17 overs and a wicket off it. DK on six off two, Green on 37 off 22.

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score: RCB 217/4 in 18 overs

IPL 2024, PBKS vs RCB Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Arshdeep gets the big wicket and so no century for Virat Kohli today. Punjab finally take a catch off him but is it too late already? Kohli was dropped on zero, then on 10 and finally he is caught at 92. This would've been his 100th century in all formats. He hits the fourth ball of the 18th straight into the hands of the fielder at extra cover, who was Rossouw, the man who gave him that reprieve on 11 runs.

Kohli c Rossouw b Arshdeep Singh 92 (47)

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score: RCB 211/4 in 17.4 overs

IPL 2024, PBKS vs RCB Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Green and Kohli have put up 81 runs for the fourth wicket off just 42 balls. Green hits a four and a six off the first two balls of the 17th over, then five runs off the rest of the over which includes a wide. Kohli on 82 off 43, Green on 37 off 22.

IPL 2024, PBKS vs RCB Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: The PBKS captain has been taken to the cleaners by Kohli and Green. Green gets off strike first ball and then Kohli pulls the second one miles up in the air, soaring into the stands beyond cow corner. Curran then fires two deliveries wide and Kohli gets off strike the next ball. Green then sends the fourth ball over the bowler's head for a four. Single again and the Kohli ends the over by clubbing the ball over the bowler's head for yet another six. Kohli is on 80 off 41, Green on 25 off 18, Curran's figures read 1/50 in 3 overs!

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score: RCB 185/3 in 16 overs

IPL 2024, PBKS vs RCB Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Well we have had a rain break of over half an hour but such is the nature of the IPL, the umpires simply have to call for a second timeout regardless of how much that extends the match. Kohli is sitting on 67 off 38, having smashed the fifth ball from Livingstone's third over in the 15th over the leg side for yet another six. Green on 19 off 15. This is looking very ominous indeed from RCB.

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score: RCB 164/3 in 15 overs

IPL 2024, PBKS vs RCB Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: He brings it up with a four off the second last ball of the 13th over bowled by Liam Livingstone. The crowd goes "Kohli! Kohli!" as the great man flicks Livingstone's fifth delivery through the midwicket region for a boundary. He follows that with a slog sweep over midwicket for another four. Kohli is on 56 off 33 at the end of that over, Green on 10 off eight.

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score: RCB 144/3 in 13 overs

IPL 2024, PBKS vs RCB Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Thankfully, that rain break didn't last too long, no overs deducted. Cameron Green is the new batter, replacing Rajat Patidar. Virat Kohli is facing up, Liam Livingstone bowling the 11th over.

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score: RCB 119/3 in 10 overs

IPL 2024, PBKS vs RCB Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Well here is the official update. Rain is gone and the covers are being slowly moved out. No worrying wet partches anywhere. 

IPL 2024, PBKS vs RCB Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: The covers are being taken off by the ground staff and the umpires are walking out to the ground. Probably to check what the status of the ground is. 

IPL 2024, PBKS vs RCB Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Big hail stones dropping onto the ground just the way PBKS dropped all those catches.

IPL 2024, PBKS vs RCB Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: It has been drizzling for much of the last two overs and finally it has become too much for the umpires. That partnership between Kohli and Patidar brought in 76 runs in 32 balls. As many as five catches dropped by PBKS, four off the bowling of debutant Kaverappa, one by wicketkeeper Bairstow off Rahul Chahar. Not many teams in the world that can bounce back from a sloppy show like that in the field, especially with Kohli looking as good as he has today.

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score: RCB 119/3 in 10 overs

IPL 2024, PBKS vs RCB Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Would you believe it, a Punjab Kings player has taken a catch! A good catch at that by wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow. Full and wide from Curran, Patidar tries to guide it past point, ends up getting an edge and Bairstow times his movement perfectly to make that catch look easy.

Patidar c Bairstow b Curran 55 (23)

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score: RCB 119/3 in 10 overs

IPL 2024, PBKS vs RCB Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: He brings it up with a six off the third ball of the 10th over bowled by Sam Curran. The half-century has come in just 21 balls, his fourth of the season.

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score: RCB 117/2 in 9.3 overs

IPL 2024, PBKS vs RCB Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: And Kaverappa's spell today ends on 2/36, he should've had at least four wickets and those dropped catches could cost PBKS the match today. Rahul Chahar bowls the first over of spin in the eighth after that and Patidar greets him with two sixes off the first two balls. Two dot balls and then a third six over wide long off. He moves to 39 off 17 balls, Kohli on 30 off 17.

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score: RCB 90/2 in 8 overs.

IPL 2024, PBKS vs RCB Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Harshal Patel bowls the last over of the powerplay after that stinker of a drop. A few beautiful shots there from Patidar and Harshal Patel has been taken to the cleaners after the dropped catch.

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score: RCB 56/2 in 6 overs

IPL 2024, PBKS vs RCB Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: He has got two wickets but he should have had four today. And that is quite an embarrassing drop from Harshal Patel.

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score: RCB 44/2 in 5 overs

IPL 2024, PBKS vs RCB Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: It's not Kohli but it is a big wicket nonetheless. Full, slow delivery around leg, Jacks tries to clip it over backward square, ends up holing out to the fielder there.

Jacks c Patel b Kaverappa 12 (7)

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score: RCB 43/2 in 4.4 overs

IPL 2024, PBKS vs RCB Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Sam Curran bowling the fourth over. Jacks get off strike first ball and then Kohli flicks the second delivery over midwicket for a four. Another single and then Jacks smashes Curran to midwicket for four. Then Jacks hits the fifth ball over long on for a six.

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score: RCB 36/1 in 4 overs

IPL 2024, PBKS vs RCB Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: How about that for an over there from Kaverappa. Will Jacks gets off strike the first ball he faces and then Kaverappa keeps Kohli pinned for the next three balls. There is also major luck for Kohli today. He was dropped by Rossouw off the last ball of that over at cover. Kohli on 10 off 10.

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score: RCB 20/1 in 3 overs

IPL 2024, PBKS vs RCB Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Du Plessis holes out at deep point and Kaverappa has his maiden wicket after all. Extra bounce for the second ball of the third over, Du Plessis tries to go over cover but ends up slicing it to the fielder at deep point instead.

du Plessis c Shashank Singh b Kaverappa 9 (7)

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score: RCB 19/1 in 2.2 overs

IPL 2024, PBKS vs RCB Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Kaverappa given a rude welcome to the IPL. Two dot balls to Kohli to start out with and then Kaverappa sends in a full ball outside off. That induces a fall stroke from Kohli and the ball goes high up in the air. Ashutosh runs from cover point, it is a difficult catch and he misjudges it as well. Catch dropped, life given to Kohli. The batters run three and then Du Plessis finishes the over with consecutive fours. Arshdeep to bowl the second.

IPL 2024, PBKS vs RCB Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru Virat Kohli and Faf du Plessis walk out. Vidwath Kaverappa is making his IPL debut and he has the new ball.

IPL 2024, PBKS vs RCB Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: How about this for a call, the Kings have brought in Liam Livingstone for Rabada. “Our strength is our batting," he said.  

PBKS XI: Jonny Bairstow(w), Prabhsimran Singh, Rilee Rossouw, Liam Livingstone, Shashank Singh, Sam Curran(c), Ashutosh Sharma, Harshal Patel, Rahul Chahar, Arshdeep Singh, Vidhwath Kaverappa

IPL 2024, PBKS vs RCB Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Faf du Plessis says that pacer Lockie Ferguson replaces Glenn Maxwell in the eleven today.

RCB XI:Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis(c), Will Jacks, Rajat Patidar, Mahipal Lomror, Cameron Green, Dinesh Karthik(w), Swapnil Singh, Karn Sharma, Mohammed Siraj, Lockie Ferguson

IPL 2024, PBKS vs RCB Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Shikhar Dhawan continues to struggle with injuries, and he hasn't been at his explosive best either in the few games he played this season. Would the PBKS management do the unthinkable?

IPL 2024, PBKS vs RCB Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Punjab Kings win the toss, choose to bowl first

IPL 2024, PBKS vs RCB Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Dinesh Karthik has proven to be a gun in the death overs for RCB. He will be up against Arshdeep Singh and in this little battle of generations, Arshdeep has managed to dismiss Karthik three times in 27 balls for 45 runs.

IPL 2024, PBKS vs RCB Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Harshal Patel has been among the wickets but has also been a wicket-taker. He has 11 wickets in slog overs this season across 16 overs bowled.

IPL 2024, PBKS vs RCB Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: The 1000-six mark for this season was crossed yesterday. It is the third consecutive season that this has happened. However, this is the fastest that it has happened; it took 70 games to cross this mark in 2022, 67 games in 2023 and 57 this year.