RCB vs PBKS Match Highlights And Report-IPL: In the first game at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium this season, fans witnessed a last-over thriller with the home team prevailing in the end by 4 wickets. In the chase of 177, the fan-favorite Virat Kohli produced a sizzling knock of 77 runs off 49 balls, before Dinesh Karthik and Mahipal Lomror played thunderous finishing cameos to take RCB to their first win of the season.
There were also brilliant bowling performances from Mohammed Siraj (2/26), Yash Dayal (1/23), Harpreet Brar (2/13), and Kagiso Rabada (2/23). It was an uncharacteristic Chinnaswamy pitch that was two-paced, on which some of the balls kept low.
RCB vs PBKS Match Highlights And Report-IPL
RCB captain Faf du Plessis won the toss and elected to bowl first. Siraj got rid of Jonny Bairstow for a single digit. PBKS captain Shikhar Dhawan and Prabhsimran Singh formed a second-wicket stand of 55 (38). Then, though, Punjab suffered a mini-collapse, and went from 72/1 to 98/4, losing the two set batters, both to Glenn Maxwell, and then Liam Livingstone to Joseph.
Sam Curran and Jitesh Sharma formed a partnership of 52 (34), but neither of them could go beyond 30. Punjab got a heft in the last couple of overs by Shashank Singh, who smashed 21 runs in 8 balls to take the total to 176.
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In the chase, it was all Virat Kohli for RCB till the 16th over. Rabada sent Faf and Green packing with back-of-length stuff, while Patidar and Maxwell were knocked over by Brar.
Kohli batted on his own pitch, starting with four boundaries in the first over off Sam Curran, after he was given a reprieve by Bairstow at first slip. Kohli collected boundaries off Rabada and Arshdeep before tonking sixes to Rahul Chahar and Harshal Patel. Kohli’s innings was eventually ended by Harshal, slicing a full ball outside off to deep backward point, before Anuj Rawat was dismissed by Curran.
RCB needed 47 runs from 22 balls, and then came a spectacular finish from Karthik and Lomror. Lomror blasted a six and a four to Arshdeep in the 18th over, and Karthik took the same off Harshal in the 19th. With 10 runs needed off the final over, Karthik scooped Arshdeep over fine leg for a six and, after a wide, slapped a straight four to seal the win.
Score summary: Punjab Kings 176/6 in 20 overs (Shikhar Dhawan 45, Mohammed Siraj 2/26); Royal Challengers Bengaluru 178/6 in 19.2 overs (Virat Kohli 77, Harpreet Brar 2/13). RCB defeated PBKS by 4 runs.
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