PBKS vs RCB Highlights IPL 2024, RCB won by 4 wickets.
PBKS vs RCB Highlights IPL 2024, RCB won by 4 wickets. Its match number 6 of the Indian Premier League . Royal Challengers Bangalore took on Punjab Kings in M.Chinnaswamy Stadium . Both teams played really well and an interesting contest was spectated by viewers.
RCB vs PBKS Highlights
Both Captains Faf du Plessis of RCB and Shikhar Dhawan from PBKS came for the toss. Royal Challengers Bangalore won the toss and elected to bowl first putting PBKS to bat on such a great surface.
PBKS Batting
Captain Shikhar Dhawan and English explosive batsman Johny Bairstow came to bat. Both started the inning very well but Mohammad Siraj took the wicket of Johny Bairstow. It was a very crucial breakthrough for RCB. Prabhsimran Singh was the next batsman. Captain Shikhar Dhawan and Prabhsimran Singh had a decent partnership of 55 runs. After that PBKS lost 3 wickets back to back in a span of 3 overs. PBKS were struggling at 98/4.
Then Sam Curran and Jitesh Sharma has a partnership of 50 runs. They scored 23 and 27 runs respectively. Shashank Singh played a cameo in last overs of 21 runs in 8 balls. He scored 2 sixes and a four. Captain Shikhar Dhawan was the highest scorer . He played a knock of 45 runs. PBKS posted a decent total of 176 runs with the loss of 6 wickets.
RCB bowling
RCB bowlers bowled really well. Mohammad Siraj and Glenn Maxwell took 2 wickets each while Yash Dayal and Alzari Joseph took 1 wicket each. Muhammad Siraj and Yash Dayal bowled with great a economy of 6.50 and 5.75 respectively. Achievable target of 177 was set for the star studded batting lineup of RCB.
RCB batting
Captain Faf du Plessis and Star batsman Virat Kohli came to bat for RCB. Virat took an explosive start while Faf was struggling a bit. He could not play longer as Kasigo Rabada took his wicket in third over. Players were coming and going very quickly. But only one man stood tall and carried his team in the whole match. He was none other than Virat kohli . No batsman in top 6 could play an impactful inning except Virat. He scored 77 runs in 49 balls. He scored 11 4s and 2 6s!
He got out when his team needed 47 runs of 4 overs. It was not going to be an easy task for the batsmen. But Dinesh Karthik and Mahipal Lormor controlled their nerves and scored 28 and 17 runs respectively . Dinesh Karthik played an impactful inning of 28 runs in mere 10 balls with the strike rate of 280. They chased down the target in last over with 4 balls remaining.
PBKS Bowling
Harpreet Brar and Kasigo Rabada were the stars of the show. Harpreet Brar took 2 wickets at the economy of 3.25 in 4 overs while South African superstar also took 2 wickets with the economy of 5.75 in 4 overs. All other bowlers could not create an impact and all had economies of 10+ .
RCB vs PBKS Match Summary
PBKS posted a total of 176 runs. Shikhar Dhawan scored 45 runs while Siraj and Maxwell took 2 wickets each. RCB chased down the target in 19.2 overs . Virat was the player of the match for impressive 77 runs knock. while Harpreet Brar and Kasigo Rabada took 2 wickets each.
