IPL 2025, PBKS vs RCB Highlights: Twin half-centuries from Devdutt Padikkal and Virat Kohli guide RCB to fifth away win

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: RCB's streak away from home continues strong! RCB win by 7 wickets, and with 7 deliveries to spare.

Confidence-boosting match for Suyash Sharma and Devdutt Padikkal, and something for the RCB fans to be cheerful about as they match four other teams on 10 points. Getting really crowded up there.

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: RCB trying to wrap this up quick. Kohli goes 6 and 4 against his former teammate Chahal, and Patidar tries to launch as well. Doesn't connect, gobbled up by Jansen at long-on.

15 needed in 20. Matter of time.

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: RCB gifted PBKS a run-out mix-up there, but it's two consecutive terrible throws! First wayward from the deep, and then with all three stumps to aim at, it's blazed wide. Bad running, bad fielding, and the end of the day, it's a two on the scoresheet for Kohli.

26 needed in 24.

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Harpreet Brar strikes! Padikkal holes out, not enough elevation this time.

Fine innings of 61(35). Surely that number three spot is his now?

PBKS hoping this is an opening. Wickets needed.

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: What an innings DDP is putting on here! Easy power, excellent timing, just some remarkable strokeplay. Partnership over 100 now, DDP with one straight drive for a lazy six to one side of the bowler, then a four along the ground to his other. Just remarkable cricket from him, making a statement.

50 needed in 48.

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Keeping it simple and straightforward here, RCB. Padikkal picking up a boundary or two every over, just a run away from his half-century. Beautifully manufactured from this pair so far.

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Kohli with a couple of nice boundaries to close out the powerplay, and he is onto 31*(20) as well. Nobody you would rather have to shepherd a pretty straightforward chase like this, but PBKS have their main man on. Yuzvendra Chahal right after the powerplay.

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Devdutt Padikkal looking really good today, a handful of really appetising shots so far. Quickly onto 22*(13), will want a big one today to hammer his spot down in this team.

Marco Jansen on for the last one of the powerplay, PBKS will want a wicket here.

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Padikkal nudges it nicely into the big onside, and it's hit so well that they manage 3 comfortably. Nehal Wadhera has to kick it in to kep it away from the boundary, but it's irrelevant in the end as it allows the batters to come back for a fourth.

22-1 after 3.

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Just what the doctor ordered for PBKS! Arshdeep goes upstairs against Salt, quick and fiery at his front shoulder, and the Englishman can only get the shoulder of the bat on it. Josh Inglis with the gloves gets up well to snap up the catch, and PBKS are alive and kicking!

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Not the easiest pitch to bat on, but a very manageable target of 158. These are players who can settle this game in the powerplay. Phil Salt on strike against Arshdeep Singh…

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Just a remarkable last 4 overs here, Bhuvneshwar and Hazlewood hitting the mark time and again. Nothing either of these batters could do except dig it out for a single. Hazlewood misses on the last ball and Jansen can hammer it for six, but shows just how precise they had to be.

That's the end of the innings, 157-6 at the break.

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Phenomenal death bowling from Bhuvi and Hazlewood, nailing the yorkers. Shashank Singh and even Jansen are phenomenal at hitting late, but only 9 off the 17th and 18th combined.

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Punjab Kings all at sea! New man Marcus Stoinis rooted to his crease, no foot movement, and Suyash sneaks a googly through the bat-pad gap. Poor batting from the experienced Stoinis, and Suyash has two in one over. RCB all over Punjab.

PBKS do bat deep, through, and Marco Jansen marches out. He's played some real blitzy innings in his time.

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Partnership was finally building but Suyash has broken it! Inglis was finally beginning to accelerate, this is a big blow. He makes room to try and clear the offside, but it's darted in at the stumps and Inglis just can't connect. Stumps are knocked over.

112-5 after 13.2. Lights are on, and it's actually looking quite dark and overcast in Mullanpur now.

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Couple of really important boundaries from the bat of Inglis there to keep the scoring rate going after all these wickets. Last ball against Shepherd, it's a decent yorker, but Inglis switches his hands around and plays a perfectly executed reverse-scoop to beat short third inside the ring.

100-4 after 12.

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: What has happened to PBKS' batting! Even the running beteen the wickets looks panicked. It's Nehal Wadhera who has to depart now, making it 76/4. Just a comedy of errors between Inglis and Wadhera, Wadhera running down for the second but Inglis ball-watching and not responding. Kohli can collect, whip around, and fire it to Jitesh to finish the business.

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Krunal Pandya is everywhere! Romario Shepherd's first over of the tournament, and Shreyas tries to attack. Can only slice it straight and with no power. Krunal has to run across a long way from long on, and it's a fantastic catch on the stretch and on the run.

He's making a massive difference in the field and with ball here. Punjab in trouble at 68-3.

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Caught David, bowled Pandya, for both the openers! Prabhsimran looking for a six on the first ball right after the powerplay, but can't clear the height of Tim David at long-on. Good moving catch by the big Aussie.

62-2 now, Krunal doing the trick.

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Doing that to a bowler of Hazlewood's calibre, the guts on some of these young Indian openers is outstanding. Premeditates his shuffle across, but nails it all the way for six over short fine.

Shreyas Iyer with a great cover drive for four a couple of deliveries later.

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Big wicket! Krunal Pandya introduced to change the speed up, and spin does the trick. Just stops a bit and spoons high into the air off Priyansh's bat. Simple catch for mid-off.

42-1 now.

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: These two understanding the pace of the wicket now, and it's suddenly 31-0 after 3.

No undue risks, and they've started ticking along. 17-run over followed by a 12-run one.

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: PRabhsimran first with an edge that flies for four, and Priyansh with a beauty of a pickup against Yash Dayal for six. On the right length, angling into him, and hit towards the short side. Easy as you like for the first maximum.

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: On the money from Bhuvi early, not allowing any width or easy pickup shots to Priyansh or Prabhsimran.

Important to add pressure on this duo.

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Bhuvneshwar Kumar with the new ball. The young and dashing Priyansh Arya on strike, Prabhsimran Singh his partner. A dot to begin, and plenty of field changes immediately.