IPL 2025, PBKS vs RCB Highlights: Twin half-centuries from Devdutt Padikkal and Virat Kohli guide RCB to fifth away win

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Not the easiest pitch to bat on, but a very manageable target of 158. These are players who can settle this game in the powerplay. Phil Salt on strike against Arshdeep Singh…

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Just a remarkable last 4 overs here, Bhuvneshwar and Hazlewood hitting the mark time and again. Nothing either of these batters could do except dig it out for a single. Hazlewood misses on the last ball and Jansen can hammer it for six, but shows just how precise they had to be.

That's the end of the innings, 157-6 at the break.

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Phenomenal death bowling from Bhuvi and Hazlewood, nailing the yorkers. Shashank Singh and even Jansen are phenomenal at hitting late, but only 9 off the 17th and 18th combined.

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Punjab Kings all at sea! New man Marcus Stoinis rooted to his crease, no foot movement, and Suyash sneaks a googly through the bat-pad gap. Poor batting from the experienced Stoinis, and Suyash has two in one over. RCB all over Punjab.

PBKS do bat deep, through, and Marco Jansen marches out. He's played some real blitzy innings in his time.

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Partnership was finally building but Suyash has broken it! Inglis was finally beginning to accelerate, this is a big blow. He makes room to try and clear the offside, but it's darted in at the stumps and Inglis just can't connect. Stumps are knocked over.

112-5 after 13.2. Lights are on, and it's actually looking quite dark and overcast in Mullanpur now.

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Couple of really important boundaries from the bat of Inglis there to keep the scoring rate going after all these wickets. Last ball against Shepherd, it's a decent yorker, but Inglis switches his hands around and plays a perfectly executed reverse-scoop to beat short third inside the ring.

100-4 after 12.

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: What has happened to PBKS' batting! Even the running beteen the wickets looks panicked. It's Nehal Wadhera who has to depart now, making it 76/4. Just a comedy of errors between Inglis and Wadhera, Wadhera running down for the second but Inglis ball-watching and not responding. Kohli can collect, whip around, and fire it to Jitesh to finish the business.

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Krunal Pandya is everywhere! Romario Shepherd's first over of the tournament, and Shreyas tries to attack. Can only slice it straight and with no power. Krunal has to run across a long way from long on, and it's a fantastic catch on the stretch and on the run.

He's making a massive difference in the field and with ball here. Punjab in trouble at 68-3.

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Caught David, bowled Pandya, for both the openers! Prabhsimran looking for a six on the first ball right after the powerplay, but can't clear the height of Tim David at long-on. Good moving catch by the big Aussie.

62-2 now, Krunal doing the trick.

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Doing that to a bowler of Hazlewood's calibre, the guts on some of these young Indian openers is outstanding. Premeditates his shuffle across, but nails it all the way for six over short fine.

Shreyas Iyer with a great cover drive for four a couple of deliveries later.

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Big wicket! Krunal Pandya introduced to change the speed up, and spin does the trick. Just stops a bit and spoons high into the air off Priyansh's bat. Simple catch for mid-off.

42-1 now.

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: These two understanding the pace of the wicket now, and it's suddenly 31-0 after 3.

No undue risks, and they've started ticking along. 17-run over followed by a 12-run one.

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: PRabhsimran first with an edge that flies for four, and Priyansh with a beauty of a pickup against Yash Dayal for six. On the right length, angling into him, and hit towards the short side. Easy as you like for the first maximum.

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: On the money from Bhuvi early, not allowing any width or easy pickup shots to Priyansh or Prabhsimran.

Important to add pressure on this duo.

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Bhuvneshwar Kumar with the new ball. The young and dashing Priyansh Arya on strike, Prabhsimran Singh his partner. A dot to begin, and plenty of field changes immediately.

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru:

RCB playing XI: Virat Kohli, Phil Salt, Rajat Patidar, Jitesh Sharma, Tim David, Romario Shepherd, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Josh Hazlewood, Suyash Sharma, Yash Dayal

Bench: Devdutt Padikkal, Rasikh Dar, Manoj Bhandage, Jacob Bethell, Swapnil Singh

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru:

PBKS playing XI: Priyansh Arya, Prabhsimran Singh, Shreyas Iyer, Josh Inglis, Nehal Wadhera, Marcus Stoinis, Shashank Singh, Marco Jansen, Xavier Bartlett, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal

Bench: Harpreet Brar, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Pravin Dubey, Glenn Maxwell, Suryansh Shedge

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: A little bit of a surprise there, as Rajat Patidar calls right at the toss and chooses to bowl. Cites a little bit of dryness in the pitch during the afternoon, with Shreyas Iyer agrees with.

One change for RCB, as Romario Shepherd relieves Liam Livingstone in this match.

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Just about time for the toss in New Chandigarh now, where Shreyas Iyer and Rajat Patidar will be eager to get out of the sun and bat first, surely. But trends can be bucked, and they will have the best idea of what the pitch will play like.

Little bit of cloud cover in New Chandigarh today which might protect the players from the brunt of the heat. Plenty of dehydration and cramping in yesterday's afternoon game.

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: This will be the last match of the season in Mullanpur before PBKS move home base to the picturesque Dharamsala.

So far, all three matches at this venue have been won by the team batting first, and pretty comfortably. Even when PBKS only managed 111 in their first innings, they were able to decimate KKR's batting, ultimately winning by 16 runs. Especially in a home game, surely the way to go will be to win the toss and opt to bat, but it's been a call captains have rarely made this IPL.

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: It was strange not to see Glenn Maxwell get one last chance at the Chinnaswamy, a ground he is very familiar with after his time spent there over the last three years. He was rested as Marcus Stoinis and Josh Inglis acted as the overseas batters.

Maxwell has had a horrible start to the IPL season, but he might be ready to click back into gear after a brief break. Will be fascinating to see Ponting and Iyer's decision.

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Another goal for PBKS will be to improve their record at their new home at the New PCA Cricket Stadium in Mullanpur, where in 8 games since the start of IPL 2024, they have won only three games and lost 5.

It will be a tough task, especially given RCB's form away from home. But PBKS do have the form and all the momentum heading into this match. Can they make that translate to give RCB their first away loss of the season?

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Over the course of the IPL, RCB and PBKS have faced off 34 times, and it's as tight as can be. Punjab Kings have won on 18 occasions, but RCB are right on their heels with 16 victories, not too far behind.

RCB will be looking to pull back to within one win at the Mullanpur stadium today.

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: We have arrived at the stage of the tournament where every result is important for several other teams, esepcially in terms of the playoff picture.

KKR and MI are two teams who are on six points and trying to make up the gap to the top 4. In this match, they are probably keeping an eye on RCB not getting too far away: if they can keep the pressure up on Rajat Patidar's team, they will fancy their chances of capitalising on any slip-ups to enter that playoff picture soon.

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: While Punjab's batting has regularly clicked thanks to a range of performances from their openers, captain Shreyas Iyer, and lower down the order from Nehal Wadhera and Shashank Singh, the whole in their team seemed to be the bowling unit.

After failing to defend 245 against SRH, however, they have successful defended the lowest total in IPL history against KKR, before managing to restrict RCB to a score of 42-7 at one point.

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Don't have to look too far back into the past to find the last time these two faced off, not too long at all. It was just two nights ago on the opposite sound of the country, in a rain-shortened 14-over contest in Bengaluru.

Punjab ran out victors that time around, and will be looking to repeat the trick. RCB, meanwhile, had a disastrous batting performance, only somewhat rescued by a showcase of late-overs hitting by Tim David. Plenty left to figure out for a batting department that has blown burning hot and freezing cold these last two weeks.

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: It's beginning to look like a real log-jam at the top of the IPL table, and RCB will be able to contribute to that by becoming a fourth team on 10 points roughly halfway through the season. Theur home form has been disastrous, but their away form has been impeccable: any time they travel, they seem to pull a rabbit out of the hat and find a win.

With a pretty healthy net run-rate, RCB will want to keep themselves away from the battle going on underneath them. A win today will allow them to confidently keep themselves within the playoff zone.

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: A massive opportunity presents itself for Ricky Ponting and Shreyas Iyer's new-look Punjab Kings, who have figured out an identity thanks to their exciting domestic core and strung together massive wins over the course of this first half of the season.

Another two points today, and they could go top of the IPL table. They are currently tied on ten points with DC and GT.

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Philip Salt, Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar(c), Liam Livingstone, Jitesh Sharma(w), Tim David, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Josh Hazlewood, Suyash Sharma, Yash Dayal, Devdutt Padikkal, Rasikh Dar Salam, Manoj Bhandage, Jacob Bethell, Swapnil Singh, Lungi Ngidi, Romario Shepherd, Nuwan Thushara, Mohit Rathee, Swastik Chikara, Abhinandan Singh

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Prabhsimran Singh, Priyansh Arya, Shreyas Iyer(c), Nehal Wadhera, Shashank Singh, Josh Inglis(w), Marcus Stoinis, Marco Jansen, Harpreet Brar, Xavier Bartlett, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Glenn Maxwell, Suryansh Shedge, Praveen Dubey, Yash Thakur, Vishnu Vinod, Aaron Hardie, Azmatullah Omarzai, Kuldeep Sen, Harnoor Singh, Musheer Khan, Pyla Avinash

PBKS vs RCB IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Just 48 hours ago, PBKS were celebrating a second consecutive win and RCB were conversely trying to absorb the fact that they have lost their first three matches at home. Now, the shoes are on the other feet and RCB would be hoping this would be the case with regards to the result as well.