IPL 2025, RCB vs PBKS Highlights: Wadhera powers Punjab's win, Bengaluru sink to hat-trick of home losses

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: It's official now.

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: And that is because it is still drizzling. Official word hasn't come yet but it is pretty obvious now folks. Toss has been delayed.

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: Josh Hazlewood had a chat with the host broadcasters. Here is what he said: "All three of our quick bowlers, are a little bit different. No matter who takes the new ball, we have got a role to play. They are great swing bowlers upfront. They are wicket-takers and I try to do my thing. Powerplay has been the best part for us with the ball so far. It's going to interesting, it's raining at the moment. I know the outfield dries quickly here, so as soon as the rain stops, we can get on the field quickly. In a couple of games here, it's been a great learning curve for us. Some guys have played a lot of cricket here, some haven't played as much. We are always learning on the go. Got to hit the good length, hit the top of stump. Need to go full and swing the ball in the powerplay."

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: Well the city has been intermittently hit by unseasonal showers throughout the past week and today is no different. Steady drizzle at the Chinnaswamy Stadium and with about 20 minutes to go for the scheduled toss time, there could be some delays here.

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: Krunal Pandya has dismissed Glenn Maxwell five times in the IPL. Moreover, he has a good record against two other international stars in the PBKS lineup. Shreyas Iyer strikes only at 88.89 and Marcus Stoinis has a strike rate of 110.71.

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: Punjab Kings lead the head-to-head stats between these two sides but only just. They have won 17 while RCB have won 16. RCB trail in this fixture despite winning the last three clashes.

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: Lockie Ferguson bowled just two balls in the defeat against Sunrisers Hyderabad on Saturday before that extraordinary win against KKR before limping off clutching his left thigh in visible pain. PBKS fast bowling coach James Hopes said that the pacer is out "indefinitely".

"Ferguson is out indefinitely and the chances of us getting him back by the end of the tournament are very slim, I would have thought," Punjab fast bowling coach James Hopes said late Monday. "I think he has sustained a pretty serious injury."

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: Something quite astonishing seems to be happening this season, the Chinnaswamy, a stadium so good for batting that Gautam Gambhir questioned AB de Villiers' greatness as an IPL player because he scored half his runs here, doesn't seem to be a graveyard for bowlers any more. Bhuvneshwar Kumar spoke about that in the pre-match press conference. "Yes, we know Chinnaswamy is known for batting, but look at the wicket, it is not the same as it used to be. I don't know the reason, but yes, we will bowl or bat for the first few overs and then see how the wicket will play and then we will decide the things," he said.

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: Haddin spoke about the impact of PBKS's victory in the last match. "I think the one thing it (the win over KKR) does with the playing group is it re-ensures everything that we're doing they start to trust. The players started to believe that they could win from any situation. I reckon that is really important as you go deeper into the tournament," said Haddin.

"It was a special win. But we're at the stage in the tournament where you've got to make sure you're getting better and better each game. Our wins are starting to become really important with the way the table's congested. So, for us, it's about just building on a little bit of momentum and playing some really brave cricket," he said.

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: Maxwell may be having a shockingly poor season with the bat but his offspin has been quite handy for the Punjab Kings. He has taken four wickets thus far and maintains an impressive economy of 8.46. His strikes were among the supporting acts to Chahal in PBKS's astonishing win in their last game.

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: PBKS may have a big-hitting top order and central to that has been the exploits of young openers Priyansh Arya and Prabhsimran Singh. But today, they face old warhorses Josh Hazlewood and Bhuvneshwar Kumar, who have been purring along in the powerplay this season. Hazlewood has an economy of 5.4 in this period, Bhuvneshwar 6.2, which are the lowest for any bowler in the first six overs of matches this season.

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: Both these sides possess top orders that have been excelling at going about their business quickly in the powerplay and that is reflected in the numbers. PBKS have the best run rate (11) this season in the first six overs of matches and RCB are second with 10.40.

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: RCB won't be too happy about the fact that their former star spinner has rediscovered some form in the game before this. No one has more T20 wickets at the Chinnaswamy than Chahal does. Moreover, 16 of his 24 IPL wickets since 2024 have been right-handers - RCB have six of them in their top eight.

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: The life of PBKS's astonishing win over KKR in their last game was Yuzvendra Chahal's four-wicket haul. That was his eighth four-wicket haul in the IPL and he is now level with Sunil Narine for most four-fers in the history of the tournament.

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: As was the case for KKR last season, Phil Salt's incredible starts have been a huge reason as to why RCB are unbeaten away frome home this season. He is the leading run scorer in the powerplay so far this year, hitting 11 sixes and striking at 193.61 in this period.

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: Glenn Maxwell has had some wild fluctuations in form throughout his career but even by those standards, his current rut is quite extraordinary. Of the 75 players who have batted at least 10 times in the IPL since 2024, only Glenn Maxwell has a sub-10 average (6.64). Now it is as an RCB player that Maxwell arguably enjoyed his longest consistently good run with the bat and so, is today the day?

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: Priyansh Arya, Prabhsimran Singh(w), Shreyas Iyer(c), Nehal Wadhera, Josh Inglis, Shashank Singh, Glenn Maxwell, Marco Jansen, Xavier Bartlett, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Suryansh Shedge, Yash Thakur, Harpreet Brar, Praveen Dubey, Pyla Avinash, Musheer Khan, Harnoor Singh, Kuldeep Sen, Azmatullah Omarzai, Aaron Hardie, Vishnu Vinod, Marcus Stoinis

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: Philip Salt, Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar(c), Liam Livingstone, Jitesh Sharma(w), Tim David, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Josh Hazlewood, Suyash Sharma, Yash Dayal, Devdutt Padikkal, Rasikh Dar Salam, Manoj Bhandage, Jacob Bethell, Swapnil Singh, Abhinandan Singh, Swastik Chikara, Mohit Rathee, Nuwan Thushara, Romario Shepherd, Lungi Ngidi

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: RCB broke a few winless streaks that lasted a decade or more at different grounds this season but they have been absolutely pulverised during matchs at home. Now they face a side who scored 111 won their last game and before that scored over 240 and lost.