RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score Match 27 Highlights: Royal Challengers Bangalore win by 24 runs

"I thought we bowled well as a group. Credit to Faf and Virat for the way they played, but I think we didn't let them get away, but we were not good enough with the bat. They bowled well, we lost far too many wickets, a couple of run-outs as well. The rain was a factor as well. The wicket was good today, we'll probably look back at a couple of dismissals and regret, but we'll come back on Saturday. We are playing in Mumbai on Saturday, it's a good wicket out there and we're excited to play over there", Sam Curran. 

"The table can't define your team. It's towards game 13 or 14 we can try and focus on what we need to do. Faf batted really well on that pitch. His innings ensured we had that 20-30 extra at the end. The pitch was very rough underneath, there was not enough water there I guess. There were hardly any sixes hit off the back foot against the spinners. The strategy was to bat deep to have a crack at 190. Told them (the bowlers) that the target was more than enough. Cannot afford to take the game deep, especially when they lost 6-7 wickets. The batting lineups are deeper, but we also have options in our bowling. At the halfway stage, the talk was to take the game to the opposition and you kind of break the game open when you pick up 4 wickets in the powerplay", Virat Kohli 

Faf du Plessis and Mohammed Siraj star in RCB 24 run win as Siraj ends the match with figures of 4/20 whereas du Plessis smashed 84 runs off 56 balls. 

Jitesh Sharma gets out for 41 off 26 

Royal Challengers Bangalore win by 24 runs vs Punjab Kings 

Harpreet Brar gets dismissed for 13 to Mohammed Siraj 

 Not what Royal Challengers Bangalore would have wanted as Virat Kohli drops Jitesh Sharma on the boundary. 

There is a twist in the tale as Jitesh Sharma provides much needed finish to the innings. 

14 overs have been bowled, Punjab Kings are 114/7 

Shahrukh Khan gets dismissed to Wanindu Hasaranga for 7 

 Prabhasimran Singh departs for 46 as Punjab Kings are 97/6 

 Sam Curran gets out for 10 off 12 balls 

Prabhasimran Singh last hope for Punjab Kings 

Harpreet Bhatia walks back for 13 

Five overs have been bowled, Punjab Kings are 40/3 

Liam Livingstone gets out for 2 off Mohammed Siraj 

Wanindu Hasaranga strikes on the first ball and dismisses Matthew Short 

 Atharva Taide departs to Mohammed Siraj for 4 

Punjab Kings begin innings in style and start with a boundary 

Punjab Kings begin proceedings in Mohali and they need 175 runs in 20 overs 

Punjab Kings need 175 to win in 20 overs 

Royal Challengers Bangalore finish 20 overs at 174/4 

Faf du Plessis gets dismissed for 84

Dinesh Karthik departs for 7 runs 

Harpreet Brar gets Glenn Maxwell out for a duck 

 Virat Kohli departs for 59 runs off 47 balls 

Slog overs start as Royal Challengers Bangalore are 137/0

Yet another record for Virat Kohli in the bag as he completes 6500 runs in T20s 

Virat Kohli completes yet another half-century in 40 balls 

13 overs have bowled and Royal Challengers Bangalore are 108/0 

Faf du Plessis completes 4th IPL 2023 half-century as RCB finish at 91/0 in the first 10 overs 

RCB captain Faf du Plessis completes 300 runs in IPL 2023 

Faf du Plessis lead the charge for the Royal Challengers Bangalore 

Royal Challengers Bangalore finish powerplay at 59/0 

Royal Challengers Bangalore finishes powerplay at 59/0 

RCB played the opening two overs cautiously.

After 5 overs RCB are 49 for 0.

RCB: Vyshak Vijaykumar, David Willey, Karn Sharma, Akash Deep, Anuj Rawat

The first bowl is about to get bowled.

Virat Kohli as RCB captain

Before this match, Virat Kohli has led Royal Challengers Bangalore on 140 different occasions, out of which he has won 66 matches and has lost 70 matches. Under his leadership, there were 4 matches too where there was no result. As a skipper, Kohli's win % stands at 48.52.

PBKS impact players: Prabhsimran Singh, S Raza, R Dhawan, M Rathee, S Singh

PBKS playing XI

Atharva Taide, Matthew Short, Harpreet Singh Bhatia, Liam Livingstone, Sam Curran(c), Jitesh Sharma(w), Shahrukh Khan, Harpreet Brar, Nathan Ellis, Rahul Chahar, Arshdeep Singh

Virat Kohli back to being the captain.

PBKS captain Sam Curran chose to bowl first.

Captains are on the ground

Toss in 5 minutes

Royal Challengers Bangalore: Faf du Plessis (C), Virat Kohli, M Lomror, G Maxwell, Shahbaz Ahmed, W Hasaranga, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Mohammed Siraj, H Patel, W Parnell, V Vijay Kumar

Punjab Kings: Atharva Taide, Shahrukh Khan, SM Curran (C), MW Short, S Raza, JM Sharma (wk), H Singh, RD Chahar, Harpreet Brar, Arshdeep Singh, K Rabada

• PBKS impact players: Prabhsimran Singh, R Dhawan, N Ellis, M Rathee, Harpreet Bhatia
• RCB probable impact players: A Rawat, D Willey, Suyash Prabhudessai, K Sharma, Akashdeep

After missing out in the last match against CSK, will Virat Kohli get it going once again?

Virat Kohli and Shikhar Dhawan, two of the foremost players of India will be up against each other and may battle it out for the Orange cap.

Faf du Plessis is currently leading the Orange cap race. Will he take further lead today?

The never-ending IPL action is set to continue. Today in the afternoon encounter the teams of RCB and PBKS will square off. Both the teams have endured a mix set of results till now, and they would be fighting the odds today to get the momentum going.

The RCB vs PBKS match will take place at the PCA stadium at 3:30 PM IST.

Both the teams have come across 30 times in the esteemed tournament, and out that 17 matches have been won by PBKS compared to the 13 by RCB.

RCB squad: Virat Kohli, Glenn Maxwell, Mohammad Siraj, Faf du Plessis, Harshal Patel, Wanindu Hasaranga, Dinesh Karthik, Shahbaz Ahmed, Anuj Rawat, Akash Deep, Josh Hazlewood, Mahipal Lomror, Finn Allen, Suyash Prabhudessai, Karn Sharma, Siddharth Kaul, David Willey, Reece Topley, Himanshu Sharma,  Manoj Bhandage, Rajan Kumar, Avinash Singh, Sonu Yadav, Michael Bracewell, Wayne Parnell, Vijaykumar Vyashak.