IPL 2025: PBKS Hands RCB Yet Another Defeat At Home By 5 Wkts!

Bhuvneshwar to Nehal Wadhera, FOUR, to deep extra cover

Bhuvneshwar to Shashank Singh, out Caught by Phil Salt!! Shashank Singh c Phil Salt b Bhuvneshwar 1(5)

Suyash Sharma to Nehal Wadhera, FOUR, to third man

Suyash Sharma to Nehal Wadhera, SIX, and six more. Nehal Wadhera playing a gem.

Suyash Sharma to Nehal Wadhera, FOUR, to square third man

Hazlewood to Shreyas Iyer, out Caught by Jitesh Sharma!! This brand of cricket hasn't helped Iyer an Punjab today. Finally went for a punch on the off-side and edged it. The keeper flew up and grabbed it out of thin air. Superb take from the keeper. That was a back of a length delivery, outside off, the ball took off after landing. The batter went hard at it and edged it. Kohli went berserk after the wicket. Do the home team sense they can win it from here? Shreyas Iyer c Jitesh Sharma b Hazlewood 7(10)

Hazlewood to Priyansh Arya, out Caught by Tim David!! Gone. Short of a length delivery, climbed on to the batter, Priyansh Arya looked to swat it and top-edged it down to mid-off. The ball went up but never went too far. The ball just got big on the batter thanks to the extra bounce. He was also trying to play it across the line and that didn't help. Priyansh Arya c Tim David b Hazlewood 16(11) [4s-1 6s-1]

Bhuvneshwar to Prabhsimran, out Caught by Tim David!! Prabhsimran c Tim David b Bhuvneshwar 13(9) [4s-2]

Bhuvneshwar to Prabhsimran, FOUR, to long-off

Harpreet Brar to Tim David, 2 runs, Tim David's fifty takes RCB closer to the 100-run mark! And it's a maiden fifty for Tim David!

Harpreet Brar to Tim David, SIX, back-to-back sixes. Short ball on middle and leg,

Bartlett to Tim David, FOUR, David playing a fighting knock.

Harpreet Brar to Yash Dayal, out Lbw!! Harpreet Brar is on a hat-trick. Yash Dayal lbw b Harpreet Brar 0(1)

Harpreet Brar to Bhuvneshwar, FOUR, proving to be a pretty useful partnerships.

Arshdeep Singh to Tim David, FOUR, pulled away! Banged in short by Arshdeep Singh and the batsman swivel-pulls this away to the deep backward square leg boundary

Chahal to Rajat Patidar, out Caught by Bartlett!! Rajat Patidar c Bartlett b Chahal 23(18) [4s-1 6s-1]

Chahal to Jitesh Sharma, out Caught by Nehal Wadhera!! Jitesh Sharma c Nehal Wadhera b Chahal 2(7)

Bartlett to Livingstone, FOUR, to deep backward point

Bartlett to Rajat Patidar, SIX, beautifully played, on a length and angling into the pads, Patidar lets the ball come, uses the angle and then wristily flicks it over mid-wicket, went sailing all the way for a maximum

Arshdeep Singh to Phil Salt, out Caught by Josh Inglis!! Phil Salt c Josh Inglis b Arshdeep Singh 4(4) [4s-1]

Royal Challengers Bengaluru Impact Subs: Devdutt Padikkal, Rasikh Dar Salam, Manoj Bhandage, Jacob Bethell, Swapnil Singh

Punjab Kings Impact Subs: Prabhsimran Singh, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Suryansh Shedge, Glenn Maxwell, Praveen Dubey

We have to be smart in adapting to the conditions, we'll try our best. A bit sticky, but the surface looks hard, we will put up a good total on the board. Same team.

Punjab Kings have won the toss and have opted to field

Toss has to happen latest by 10:41 pm for a 5-over game. It means that we've less than two hours left for this annoying bit of rain to stop, the ground to be cleaned and readied for the match to start.

Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Rajat Patidar (c), Virat Kohli, Yash Dayal, Josh Hazlewood, Phil Salt, Jitesh Sharma, Liam Livingstone, Rasikh Dar, Suyash Sharma, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Swapnil Singh, Tim David, Romario Shepherd, Nuwan Thushara, Manoj Bhandage, Jacob Bethel, Devdutt Padikkal, Swastik Chhikara, Lungi Ngidi, Abhinandan Singh, Mohit Rathee.

Punjab Kings: Shreyas Iyer (c), Yuzvendra Chahal, Arshdeep Singh, Marcus Stoinis, Glenn Maxwell, Shashank Singh, Prabhsimran Singh, Harpreet Brar, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Yash Thakur, Marco Jansen, Josh Inglis, Lockie Ferguson, Azmatullah Omarzai, Harnoor Pannu, Kuldeep Sen, Priyansh Arya, Aaron Hardie, Musheer Khan, Suryansh Shedge, Xavier Bartlett, Pyla Avinash, Pravin Dubey, Nehal Wadhera.