RCB vs CSK Highlights, IPL 2026: CSK sink to further lows, RCB ease past with 43-run win after scoring mammoth 250

RCB vs CSK LIVE Score: Shot! Some incredible cricket. Patidar reads the googly and hammers six over cover, then Padikkal dances down and puts a beautiful swing through the line right back down the ground.

114/2 after 12 now – catching up.

RCB vs CSK LIVE Score: Big moment! And it's Shivam Dube who produces it. Into the pitch with fingers rolled over it, sliced into the air by Salt attempting the pull shot but with no control, and Noor Ahmad does well to get underneath it.

Salt not pleased. 93/2 now.

RCB vs CSK LIVE Score: RCB now slowly going about their way building the foundation for this innings. Salt the aggressor, Padikkal taking it easy to stitch things together.

Salt onto 44* – but RCB beginning to look good.

RCB vs CSK LIVE Score: Better from Salt! Hasn't found his rhythm yet but that will help. Kamboj slides it down leg and Salt can help it along for six.

CSK still sloppy in the field – quite a few misfields thus far.

RCB vs CSK LIVE Score: Lucky, lucky for Phil Salt! Kamboj nearly has another – draws a genuine edge, but it's thick enough that it's always just outside the outstretched arm of Sanju Samson! Runs away for four.

43/1 after 5 – but don't be tricked, CSK have been bowling supremely well.

RCB vs CSK LIVE Score: No trouble this time! Kohli with another top edge – not an easy surface to bat, this. High into the air, Dube has to run in instead of back this time, and he is much safer with it – pouched, and Kohli does score 28, but thankfully from CSK's perspective doesn't motor on.

RCB vs CSK LIVE Score: Better! very little solid contact but that one flies long and far. Flick of the wrists middle of the bat, and that's six all the way!

RCB vs CSK LIVE Score: Can't afford that! Shivam Dube with head in his hands. Not an easy chance running backwards, but he gets there with ease – just takes his eyes off the ball, andit spills through!

Very, very presentable. Kohli should have been walking back!

RCB vs CSK LIVE Score: Good from CSK – Salt is trying to go after the bowling, but there is enough movement to ensure there are a lot of thick edges.

RCB vs CSK LIVE Score: Not too expensive in the first over, just 5 off it.

RCB vs CSK LIVE Score: Big challenge for Khaleel Ahmed – CSK need to keep things quiet, but getting Kohli in particular out early is essential. Off we go!

RCB vs CSK LIVE Score: Batting stays the same, Overton comes in.

CSK XI: Sanju Samson (wk), Ruturaj Gaikwad (c), Ayush Mhatre, Sarfaraz Khan, Shivam Dube, Prashant Veer, Jamie Overton, Noor Ahmad, Anshul Kamboj, Matt Henry, Khaleel Ahmed

Impact: Matthew Short, Akeal Hosein, Kartik Sharma, Ramakrishna Ghosh, Gurjapneet Singh

RCB XI: Phil Salt, Virat Kohli, Devdutt Padikkal, Rajat Patidar (c), Jitesh Sharma (wk), Tim David, Romario Shepherd, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Abhinandan Singh, Jacob Duffy

Impact: Suyash Sharma, Jacob Bethell, Rasikh Salam Dar, Kanishk Chouhan, Venkatesh Iyer

RCB vs CSK LIVE Score: Ruturaj Gaikwad calls right in the middle and no hesitation to chase! No changes for CSK – but RCB would have liked to bowl first as well.

Team news next!

RCB vs CSK LIVE Score: Two matches, 13 runs – Sanju Samson hasn't had the best time of it in yellow thus far in his brief career with CSK. Big things were expected of him – but if there i sone thing Samson has proved, he is a big game player. Here is a big game, one CSK can't really afford to lose. This will be the time.

RCB vs CSK LIVE Score: 20-odd minutes away from when Rajat Patidar and Ruturaj Gaikwad will head to the middle for the toss in Bengaluru. Crucial toss to win – this is one of those venues where chasing has a big advantage.

RCB vs CSK LIVE Score: Conversely, it's hard to pinpoint any weaknesses for RCB. Excellent top order batting, power through the middle and death, and all sorts of bowling well sorted out. It was RCB's all-round proficiency, the ability to play cricket for a longer proportion of the game than any other team, that helped them to the trophy last year, and this year it looks very similar. The pace bowling will have some questions to answer about whether they can keep doing it – but otherwise, RCB will always be competitive.

RCB vs CSK LIVE Score: CSK's batting has had bright spots, particularly Ayush Mhatre against PBKS. What has struggled in the absence of Nathan Ellis has been the bowling, with no player able to become that go-to wicket-taker and the new-ball bowling in particular being torn apart by RR and PBKS alike.

CSK need to figure that out: allowing teams to get off to tears makes things so much easier through the remainder of the innings, and with Phil Salt across from them, they know the potential is there tonight too.

RCB vs CSK LIVE Score: Two losses is tough, but three losses can be deadly at the start of the season. But the good news for CSK is that they aren't the only struggling team – a win against RCB puts them on the board and right in the thick of things in terms of the points table. A platform to grow from. It would pull them level on points with RCB themselves for one.

RCB vs CSK LIVE Score: Each team's respective overseas superstar – Josh Hazlewood for RCB and Dewald Brevis for CSK – came into the tournament with clouds over their fitness. With Jacob Duffy's emergence, RCB didn't miss Hazlewood in the opener, but CSK certainly need the power and skill of Brevis through the middle overs. Their participation could be key tonight, one way or the other.

RCB vs CSK LIVE Score: For RCB, the overall success is translating to this battle within a war as well. RCB have now registered three wins over CSK over the last 3 times they have met – including their first win over CSK at Chepauk since all the way back in 2008. RCB ruling to roost in the south at the moment.

RCB vs CSK LIVE Score: After being demolished by a Vaibhav Sooryavanshi storm in Guwahati, back home in Chepauk it was Priyansh Arya and Shreyas Iyer's turn. In truth, it has been CSK's batting that has been the weakness: Sanju Samson and Ruturaj Gaikwad haven't gotten going, and the inexperience of the middle order has been telling.

RCB vs CSK LIVE Score: RCB have only played once this tournament – all the way back on March 28, the first day of the season. It was a confident, capable, uncomplicated win over SRH, with the bowling led by Jacob Duffy restricting them 15-20 runs under par, before the batting was taken home by a dazzling Devdutt Padikkal and Virat Kohli doing what he does best.

Two points on the board – something to build on.

RCB vs CSK LIVE Score: It's the great southern derby of the Indian Premier League! RCB vs CSK, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, Bangalore and Chennai, Virat Kohli and MS Dhoni. RCB are soaring after their first title, and CSK's wooden spoon season has also been followed by two losses to start the season – would a loss tonight spell another write-off? Let's discuss.