RCB vs PBKS IPL 2024 Highlights: Kohli fifty, Karthik finishing act help RCB beat PBKS by 4 wickets

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: Just three runs after that boundary in that over. It was a good first over from Siraj, spoiled somewhat by that misfield.

RCB vs PBKS Live Score: PBKS 7/0 in 1 over

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: Well how rare is that. Full ball outside off from Siraj first up, Dhawan gives it a little push towards mid-off where Maxwell lets it slip through his hand. What should have been a single has become a four.

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: Mohammed Siraj to bowl the first over for RCB. Jonny Bairstow and Shikhar Dhawan opening for PBKS. Dhawan jokes around with Virat Kohli. Bairstow has his game face on. He couldn't do much in the Test series in India, can he make a difference here?

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: Shikhar Dhawan(c), Jonny Bairstow, Prabhsimran Singh, Sam Curran, Jitesh Sharma(w), Liam Livingstone, Shashank Singh, Harpreet Brar, Harshal Patel, Kagiso Rabada, Rahul Chahar

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: Faf du Plessis(c), Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar, Glenn Maxwell, Cameron Green, Dinesh Karthik, Anuj Rawat(w), Alzarri Joseph, Mayank Dagar, Mohammed Siraj, Yash Dayal

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: Faf du Plessis has called it right, RCB are bowling first.

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: Simon Katich and Deep Dasgupta on the pitch report. They say that is rock hard, there's a bit of grass on it and what we know about last year's IPL is the average first innings score is 196. The ball is going to fly everywhere.

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: Right Faf du Plessis and Shikhar Dhawan are out there waiting for the toss to take place.

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: These two sides got off to contrasting starts to this season. RCB lost to CSK by six wickets in the match that opened the tournament on March 22. The next day, Punjab Kings beat Delhi Capitals by four wickets.

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: Sam Curran is surely going to be one of PBKS's death bowlers and that might work in RCB's favour. Dinesh Karthik has hit him for 59 runs in 23 balls without being dismissed.

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: The problem for RCB is that they lost four of the five night games they played at the Chinnaswamy Stadium in IPL 2023

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: Unlike what was the case yesterday for the match between MI and GT, there are absolutely no injuries to report for RCB or PBKS.

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: This is the first of three home matches that RCB will be playing on the trot. RCB then face KKR on Friday and then LSG on April 2 before travelling to Jaipur to face RR on April 6.

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: RCB may have lost their opening match against CSK but there were quite a few aspects of that game that would make an RCB fan smile. Chief of those would be how their middle order bailed them out after their top order was ripped to shreds by Mustafizur Rahman. Virat Kohli scored 21 in 20, Du Plessis scored 35 in 23 but Rajat Patidar and Glenn Maxwell fell for ducks while Cameron Green scored 18. Anuj Rawat and Dinesh Karthik then put up a 95-run stand for the sixth wicket that came in just 50 balls to take them to a score of 173/6.

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: Jonny Bairstow is a useful player to have in your team when you are facing RCB. The Englishman has a strike rate of over 200 against each of Mohammed Siraj, Karn Sharma and Maxwell. He has a combined 101 runs in 42 balls against them without getting out even once.

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: Small ground, the ball coming onto the bat nicely more often than not, there are few grounds in the world better than the Chinnaswamy for T20 cricket. Since the start of 2018, teams have scored at 9.42 per over at the Chinnaswamy Stadium, the highest scoring rate at any venue that has hosted at least five IPL games.

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: RCB have made three playoff appearances in the last four seasons while PBKS have made none. But that is not reflected in the head to head between these two sides in the same period. PBKS have won five of the seven matches that have been played between the two teams.

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: There is some patchy grass cover on the pitch at the Chinnaswamy for this game. It means we can expect it to be slow and maybe two-paced in the beginning but, as it did in the match between India and Afghanistan, it could revert to type later in the match.

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: Kohli has a fantastic record against Arshdeep Singh and Harshal Patel. Against Arshdeep, he has 44 runs off 23 balls without being dismissed, and against Harshal, 43 in 27 balls for one dismissal. Rahul Chahar, though, has been able to keep him quiet, giving away only 32 runs in 37 balls while getting him out once.

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: The South African spearhead would be key to any team he plays for in any match and it is no different here. He has a great record against RCB's top order batters - 16 runs in 13 balls, two dismissals vs Faf du Plessis;27 runs in 24 balls, three dismissals vs Virat Kohli; 23 runs in 20 balls, two dismissals vs Glenn Maxwell and 14 runs in 19 balls, three dismissals vs Dinesh Karthik

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: The RCB captain has quite the ball when playing against PBKS. His scores against them since 2019 read: 54, 96, 87*, 48, 36*, 76, 88, 10 & 84 (last)

Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis(c), Rajat Patidar, Glenn Maxwell, Cameron Green, Anuj Rawat(w), Dinesh Karthik, Karn Sharma, Alzarri Joseph, Mayank Dagar, Mohammed Siraj, Yash Dayal, Akash Deep, Suyash Prabhudessai, Swapnil Singh, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Lockie Ferguson, Mahipal Lomror, Will Jacks, Manoj Bhandage, Saurav Chauhan, Rajan Kumar, Himanshu Sharma, Tom Curran, Reece Topley

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis(c), Rajat Patidar, Glenn Maxwell, Cameron Green, Anuj Rawat(w), Dinesh Karthik, Karn Sharma, Alzarri Joseph, Mayank Dagar, Mohammed Siraj, Yash Dayal, Akash Deep, Suyash Prabhudessai, Swapnil Singh, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Lockie Ferguson, Mahipal Lomror, Will Jacks, Manoj Bhandage, Saurav Chauhan, Rajan Kumar, Himanshu Sharma, Tom Curran, Reece Topley

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2024 Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: RCB batting superstar Vira Kohli has an impressive record against PBKS' strike bowler Arshdeep Singh. Arshdeep is yet to dismiss the batting icon in the IPL. Meanwhile, the talismanic batter has smashed 44 runs off 23 balls against the PBKS pacer. The 35-year-old loves batting at Chinnaswamy and the short boundaries will also work in his favour as Arshdeep needs to use his variations well to trouble the former RCB skipper.

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2024 Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: Dinesh Karthik - Impact Player. Royal Challengers Bengaluru made the best use of the Impact Player rule by swapping Yash Dayal with Dinesh Karthik in the last match against CSK. Karthik, who is at the fag end of his career, gave a finishing touch to the Indian innings with his 38-run knock at Chepauk but RCB decided to replace the 38-year-old with Yash Dayal on the field in the second innings. The Bengaluru-based franchise might use Karthik as an impact player throughout the season with Anuj Rawat playing as the specialist wicketkeeper.