LSG vs RCB Highlights, IPL 2026: LSG hold on in nailbiting finish, complicate playoff matters with RCB upset

LSG vs RCB LIVE Score: Movement for Bhuvneshwar early. No shots in anger – quietish over, but all things considered, a couple of nice shots for two from Arshin.

LSG vs RCB LIVE Score: Bhuvneshwar Kumar with the fresh new ball, Mitchell Marsh opening the batting with Arshin Kulkarni. Massive powerplay coming up.

LSG vs RCB LIVE Score: Same settled team for RCB.

RCB XI: Jacob Bethell, Virat Kohli, Devdutt Padikkal, Rajat Patidar (c), Jitesh Sharma (wk), Krunal Pandya, Romario Shepherd, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Suyash Sharma, Rasikh Salam Dar, Josh Hazlewood

Impact: Tim David, Jordan Cox, Mangesh Yadav, Vicky Otswal, Venkatesh Iyer

LSG vs RCB LIVE Score:

LSG XI: Mitchell Marsh, Arshin Kulkarni, Nicholas Pooran, Aiden Markram, Rishabh Pant (c&wk), Akshat Raghuwanshi, Himmat Singh, Shahbaz Ahmed, Digvesh Rathi, Mohammed Shami, Prince Yadav

Mayank Yadav, Mukul Chowdhary, Abdul Samad, M Siddharth, Avesh Khan

LSG vs RCB LIVE Score: Coin goes up, comes RCB's way – and no shock, opt to bowl first on a surface that will give the bowlers something first up.

Team news next.

LSG vs RCB LIVE Score: Jacob Bethell and Josh Inglis didn't start the season as their teams' openers, but have taken over that mantle – don't expect it to change. The team around Inglis could do with some movement, though.

LSG vs RCB LIVE Score: 30 mins from the toss in the middle now. LSG probably know they don't have the firepower to put up a score to scare chasing teams – their best bet is to try and expose RCB's weakness by making them bat first, and trusting their own team to chase down something close to a par score. Something truly special might be needed against a top quality team otherwise.

LSG vs RCB LIVE Score: Here's the issue with LSG – in Mitch Marsh, Markram, Inglis, Pooran, and Pant, they have five batters who nominally prefer to bat in the top 3. Markram struggled from number 5 in the last game, unable to get out of the blocks. They also dropped Mukul Choudhary, one of the bright sparks of their season, and Ayush Badoni, the rare batter in the team who can bridge that middle order bat.

When they are struggling to maximise their resources, they don't have anyone to blame but themselves.

LSG vs RCB LIVE Score: Nicholas Pooran was having a horror season, one of the IPL's worst stastistically, as he struggling to get bat on ball for much of LSG's campaign. Something flipped as he was promoted to number 3 against MI, where he proceeded to blister 63(21). Given the sixe of his paycheck, LSG have big expectations of their West Indian slugger, and know this is a big last 5 games for him to prove that he is worth the retention heading into the next auction.

LSG vs RCB LIVE Score: When the teams met earlier this season at the Chinnaswamy, it was a one-sided contest, one of the many LSG have found themselves on the wrong end of. They were only able to score 146 batting first, and the chase was all too easy – accomplished in 15.1 overs, thanks to quick innings throughout the batting order after Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Josh Hazlewood had wreaked havoc.

LSG vs RCB LIVE Score: RCB sit in the playoff zone, where they have spent more or less the entirety of this season. With six wins in nine games, they have five games to spare – two games from those should be enough, but RCB will be gunning for at least three wins, knowing that will likely earn them a spot in Qualifier 1. RCB are also one of the teams with an easier fixture list, in the sense that their opposition are amongst the struggling teams – they will back themselves.

LSG vs RCB LIVE Score: Lucknow are in last place because of a horror last six matches, which has seen them lose six in a row – a horror run of fixtures, including many games in which they failed to be competitive at all. The problems are plenty – no set team organisation, constant chopping and changing, a lack of depth, and minimal confidence. Things can only go up, surely.

LSG vs RCB LIVE Score: Approaching the last quarter of a season, there isn't much movement that any team can expect – but given how cramped top 5-6 is beginning to look, it will be significant movement. RCB are bang in the middle in third, but with games in hand on every team surrounding them and two games in hand on table toppers SRH, they have plenty of time to make their push for the top two. Things are very different for LSG, who after 7 losses in 9 games are all but out of the running – they are likely to miss the playoff stages, but could still have a role to play yet.

LSG vs RCB LIVE Score: Back in action at the Ekana Stadium, where home team LSG hope against hope that they can end a six-match losing streak and earn some respite. It's a horror match-up from that perspective, as a winning machine comes into town in the shape of RCB. Stay tuned for all the updates.