- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR0.4 Skies it and that's an excellent catch from Inglis! Shorter side of good length around leg, it seams away as Salt looks to swing it leg side. Takes a top edge and goes high to his left. Inglis has a long way to run, almost to Chahal at square leg and dives forward to hold on! 4/12.4 Jansen holds on tracking back! Length ball angled across and Kohli looks to go downtown. He ends up slicing it and Jansen from mid-on has to track back some ways, but does very well to not make a mess of that. Crowd goes silent as Kohli walks back to the dugout 21/27.4 taken at long-off! Things are unravelling for RCB, as Patidar departs after being dismissed by Chinnaswamy's own Chahal. He went fullish and got it to dip around off, as Patidar made room and looked to loft. He seemed to go inside out, but couldn't place it beyond the reach of Bartlett, who moved to his left to grab the ball 41/63.6 Skied again, and taken! Bartlett gets his first! This is full outside off, Livingstone comes down the track to heave it away and it gets a big leading edge. Goes high in the sky in front of point. Priyansh Arya at cover backtracks, and that's another good catch taken by Punjab Kings! 26/35.5 This one does carry! Jitesh didn't have any control on that as he looks to slog-sweep this full ball around middle. That drifted in to pitch on middle and it takes the top edge. Deep square leg runs in and takes a good catch. PBKS have been excellent in the field today, and Chahal has his first of the evening! 32/46.1 And another one bites the dust! But wait, did that come off the helmet? PBKS review it immediately. Banged in short and angled into Krunal, who looks to pull. Had no idea where that was. The ball looped up to Krunal's left and Jansen ran up to grab that. Were there two noises? There's a spike as the ball goes past bat Krunal Pandya, who was getting his concussion test done, will also have to walk back to the dugout! 33/58.2 confident appeal for lbw by Jansen... and the umpire's finger goes up after a while! Bhandage reviews, though. He looked to flick it, but almost with a half-closed face of the bat, and in an awkward position - his feet were almost one behind the other there. It was a length delivery on from Jansen, and as Bhandage looked to clip it away, he missed. Ball tracking shows the ball would have gone on to clip the side of leg stump on umpire's call 42/711.4 Bartlett almost overran that! He was placed a good few steps in at long-off, and even then he seemed to have walked forward a bit too much. The ball arrived above his head, and he eventually took it with a reverse cup while adjusting himself back. Bhuvi lofted at this full delivery around off, and got the height, but not the power and the distance 63/811.5 given lbw first ball! Struck on the front pad, and that hardly took a while before the umpire's finger went up. Brar on a hat-trick! On the fuller side of a length on middle and off, and angled in from around the wicket. The ball seemed to be going on with the angle, as it beat Dayal's attempted defence on the inside edge 63/9Extras1 (nb 1)TOTAL95/9 (14 Overs, RR: 6.78)Did not bat: Suyash SharmaFall of wickets: 1-4 (Phil Salt, 0.4 ov), 2-21 (Virat Kohli, 2.4 ov), 3-26 (Liam Livingstone, 3.6 ov), 4-32 (Jitesh Sharma, 5.5 ov), 5-33 (Krunal Pandya, 6.1 ov), 6-41 (Rajat Patidar, 7.4 ov), 7-42 (Manoj Bhandage, 8.2 ov), 8-63 (Bhuvneshwar Kumar, 11.4 ov), 9-63 (Yash Dayal, 11.5 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ 0s 4s 6s WD NB Arshdeep Singh 3 0 23 2 7.66 8 4 0 0 0 XC Bartlett 3 0 26 1 8.66 9 3 1 0 0 M Jansen 3 0 10 2 3.33 11 1 0 0 0 YS Chahal 3 0 11 2 3.66 7 0 0 0 0 Harpreet Brar 2 0 25 2 12.5 8 1 3 0 1
Player of the Match
Player of the Match
- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR3.4 David takes another catch! On a length and angled across, Priyansh Arya looks to heave this away but slices it. Goes up high and towards mid-off. This is a simpler one for David, who is in the thick of things today! 32/22.4 This time he picks out a fielder! Bhuvneshwar pulls back his length and Prabhsimran looks to go downtown again. Slices it high off the toe end and David runs to his right from mid-off and he is as safe a pair of hands as you can ask for. And clearly, David can do no wrong today! Patidar was also running in from mid-on but they manage to not collide as David calls for it early. RCB have their first wicket 22/17.4 well taken by Jitesh! He had to jump full stretch, and gobble it with both gloves. Hazlewood gets extra bounce again in this over, and the ball takes off from the top edge of Iyer's bat. Hazlewood bowled on a short of a length, and in the channel just outside off. Iyer saw that and went slashing, only to get an edge, and the ball flying behind 52/37.6 gone!! Another one for Hazlewood int this over! RCB can suddenly sniff something out of this game. Hazlewood bowls on the shorter side again, and around that seventh-stump line. There was, yet again, some extra bounce for him, though. Inglish went hacking at this ball seeing the width, but the ball flew off his bat to deep third, where Suyash settled under the ball for a comfortable catch 53/411.3 taken at long-on! Salt takes this one almost too casually. PBKS are ensuring that this goes deeper than they would like. Bhuvi bowled on a short of a length on off, and the ball seamed back in to finish on middle. The bounce was a bit too much for that attempted loft from Shashank, who went ahead with the shot. But the ball ballooned for a simple catch at long-on, as RCB strike back again 81/5Extras7 (b 4, lb 1, w 2)TOTAL98/5 (12.1 Overs, RR: 8.05)Fall of wickets: 1-22 (Prabhsimran Singh, 2.4 ov), 2-32 (Priyansh Arya, 3.4 ov), 3-52 (Shreyas Iyer, 7.4 ov), 4-53 (Josh Inglis, 7.6 ov), 5-81 (Shashank Singh, 11.3 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ 0s 4s 6s WD NB B Kumar 3 0 26 2 8.66 7 3 1 0 0 Yash Dayal 2.1 0 18 0 8.3 5 1 1 2 0 JR Hazlewood 3 0 14 3 4.66 10 0 1 0 0 KH Pandya 1 0 10 0 10 2 2 0 0 0 Suyash Sharma 3 0 25 0 8.33 9 2 2 0 0
Match Details
Toss
Punjab Kings , elected to field first
Player Of The Match
Season
Hours of play (local time)
19.30 start, First Session 19.30-21.00, Interval 21.00-21.20, Second Session 21.20-22.50
Match days
18 April 2025 - night match (20-over match)
Umpires
TV Umpires
Reserve Umpire
Match Referee
Points
Punjab Kings 2, Royal Challengers Bengaluru 0
Match Notes
- Royal Challengers Bengaluru Impact Player Subs: Devdutt Padikkal, Rasikh Salam, Manoj Bhandage, Jacob Bethell, Swapnil Singh
- Punjab Kings Impact Player Subs: Prabhsimran Singh, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Glenn Maxwell, Suryansh Shedge, Pravin Dubey
- Rain: Royal Challengers Bengaluru - 0/0
- Wet Ground: Royal Challengers Bengaluru - 0/0
- Rain: Royal Challengers Bengaluru - 0/0
- Powerplay 1: Overs 0.1 - 4.0 (Mandatory - 26 runs, 3 wickets)
- Over 6.1: Review by Punjab Kings (Bowling), Decision Challenged - Wicket, Umpire - VK Sharma, Batter - KH Pandya (Upheld)
- Over 6.6: Review by Royal Challengers Bengaluru (Batting), Decision Challenged - Wide, Umpire - VK Sharma, Batter - TH David (Struck down)
- Royal Challengers Bengaluru Player Sub: MS Bhandage for LS Livingstone (Royal Challengers Bengaluru innings, 7.4 ov)
- Royal Challengers Bengaluru: 50 runs in 10.1 overs (61 balls), Extras 0
- Innings Break: Royal Challengers Bengaluru - 95/9 in 14.0 overs (TH David 50, JR Hazlewood 0)
- TH David: 50 off 26 balls (5 x 4, 3 x 6)
- Powerplay 1: Overs 0.1 - 4.0 (Mandatory - 33 runs, 2 wickets)
- Punjab Kings Impact Player Sub: Prabhsimran Singh in for Yuzvendra Chahal (Royal Challengers Bengaluru innings, 13.6 ov)
- Punjab Kings: 50 runs in 6.6 overs (42 balls), Extras 2
Match Coverage
All Match NewsTim David still trying to 'figure out a method' to succeed at Chinnaswamy
He was the lone bright spark in RCB's batting effort against PBKS, but even his 26-ball 50* wasn't enough to prevent a third consecutive loss for them at home
The hex of the exes - another old boy returns home to take RCB down
RCB have now lost three in three at the Chinnaswamy this season, and on each occasion, a former RCB player has played a key role in their defeat
Hazlewood threatens Noor in IPL 2025 Purple Cap race with three-for in RCB vs PBKS
Shreyas Iyer and Virat Kohli failed with the bat on Friday, spoiling their chances of moving up the Orange Cap table
Chahal and Jansen limit RCB to 95 despite David's whirlwind fifty
RCB were reduced to 42 for 7 in the ninth over at one stage, but David smoked an unbeaten 26-ball 50
Maxwell makes way for Stoinis as PBKS bowl in 14-overs-a-side game
The toss was delayed by close to two hours due to a persistent drizzle