PBKS vs RCB Match Report: The 58th match of the 17th season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) was played between Punjab Kings and Royal Challengers Bangalore at the stadium in Dharamshala. With the RCB team winning this match by 60 runs, it has kept alive its hopes of reaching the playoffs this season. With the defeat, Punjab Kings is now out of the race to reach the playoffs. In this match, the Royal Challengers Bangalore team, batting first, scored 241 runs in 20 overs, while while chasing the target, the Punjab team was limited to the score of 181 runs in 17 overs. In this match for RCB, Mohammad Siraj did wonders with the ball and took 3 wickets. Whereas for RCB, Virat Kohli played a brilliant inning of 92 runs with the bat.
Punjab’s innings faltered as soon as Russo returned to the pavilion.
In this match against RCB, Punjab Kings team, which came to chase the target of 242 runs, got a very bad start in which they lost their first wicket in the form of Prabhsimran Singh at the score of 6. After this, a brilliant half-century partnership was seen between Jonny Bairstow and Riley Russo for the second wicket, but just before the end of the sixth over, Bairstow returned to the pavilion after scoring 27 runs in 16 balls. Punjab had definitely made this match exciting by scoring 71 runs in 6 overs. Punjab got the third and biggest blow in this match on the score of 107 in the form of Riley Russo who returned to the pavilion after playing an inning of 61 runs in 27 balls.
After the dismissal of Riley Russo, the RCB bowlers kept taking wickets at regular intervals, putting complete pressure on the Punjab Kings in this match, due to which the entire Punjab Kings team was reduced to a score of 181 runs in 17 overs. While Mohammed Siraj took 3 wickets for RCB in this match, Lockie Ferguson, Swapnil Singh and Karn Sharma took 2 wickets each.
Virat Kohli and Rajat Patidar played brilliant innings
If we talk about the innings of RCB team in this match, apart from Virat Kohli, the performances of Rajat Patidar and Cameron Green were seen. While Kohli played a brilliant inning of 92 runs in this match, Rajat Patidar also played a brilliant inning of 55 runs, apart from this, Cameron Green managed to score an inning of 46 runs in 27 balls. Harshal Patel took 3 wickets in this match for Punjab.
RCB team is at 7th place in the points table.
With a big win of 60 runs in this match against Punjab Kings, RCB team is at 7th position in the points table of IPL 2024 with 10 points, in which they also got a chance to improve the net run rate with this big win. . RCB’s net run rate is now 0.217. They have to play their last two matches on 12th and 18th May against the teams of Delhi Capitals and Chennai Super Kings.
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