IPL 2025, RCB vs PBKS Highlights: Wadhera powers Punjab’s win, Bengaluru sink to hat-trick of home losses

RCB vs PBKS Live: Wow Priyansh Arya and Prabhsimran Singh have been kept absolutely quiet by RCB in these first two overs, with Yash Dayal almost dismissing the latter off the last ball. Four singles and a wide make it five runs off the first five balls. Then Arya flashes at the last one which is outside off, takes a thick edge and flies above the diving Kohli at slips.

Arya on eight off seven, Prabhsimran on three off five.

PBKS 12/0 in 2 overs

RCB vs PBKS Live: How about that for a first over from Bhuvi. The first ball is a dot, the next is a tight single, could’ve been interesting had Krunal Pandya collected cleanly near the stumps at the non-striker’s end. Two more singles next two balls and that is all that comes from the first over.

RCB vs PBKS Live: Now this may not be too big a target to chase but PBKS would know from their own recent experiences more than any other team just how difficult any target can be on any given day. Priyansh Arya to open with Prabhsimran Singh, with the latter being impact sub for Chahal. Bhuvneshwar Kumar to bowl the first over for RCB. 96 to win.

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: Tim David as consistent as ever for RCB and he gets a very well deserved half-century. Brar returns to bowl the last over. Three dots to start off and then David takes his helmet off. The fourth ball is sent over long off for a six. The fifth is blasted over deep square leg for another six and the last ball was sent over cover for another six. Except, wait a minute, that wasn’t the last ball because the clarion went off for no ball. David’s partner Josh Hazlewood had actually run back to the dugout and he is called back. David miscues his shot off the last ball to deep midwicket, the batters snaffle two runs and that helps the big Aussie to finish with his first fifty for RCB.

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: Appeal for LBW and given! Harpreet Brar on a hat-trick here. Fullish length delivery, Dayal’s defence is beaten on the inside edge and it is as straightforward an LBW call as they come.Dayal lbw b Harpreet Brar 0 (1)

RCB 63/9 in 11.5 overs

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: Well Tim David gave RCB fans a reason to smile by smashing two fours in the 11th over by Arshdeep. Now Harpreet Brar brought in, Bhuvi manages to loft the third ball over extra cover for four. The next ball, though, he is caught at long off.

Bhuvneshwar c Bartlett b Harpreet Brar 8 (13)

RCB 63/9 in 11.4 overs

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: And they haven’t even scored 50. Appeal for LBW against Manoj Bhandage, who has been sent in as an Impact Sub for Liam Livingstone. The umpire raises his finger, Bhandage reviews. There wasn’t much of an appeal there from PBKS. And well, ball-tracking shows that the length delivery would’ve gone on to take down leg stump.

Bhandage lbw b Jansen 1 (4)

RCB 42/7 in 8.2 overs

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: Chahal gets his second and this time, it is a the spin-hitter Patidar. Fourth ball of the eighth is fullish, the dip on it seems to have done Patidar in. He tries go downtown but is caught at long off.

Patidar c Bartlett b Chahal 23 (18)

RCB 41.6 in 7.4 overs

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: Wow Marco Jansen has sent back Krunal Pandya first ball of the next over with an absolute snorter. First ball of the seventh is banged in short, Krunal tries to pull but it rushes on to him, seems to take an edge before absolutely clattering on to his helmet and flew up in the air. Jansen himself took the catch but Pandya reviewed. He has a concussion test during which time replays show a spike as ball passes bat.

Krunal Pandya c & b Jansen 1 (2)

RCB 33/5 in 6.1 overs

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: Chahal strikes in his first over, no surprises there. It is another good catch though. Fifth ball of the sixth over is drifted on to middle, Jitesh swings and it takes a top edge. Wadhera runs in from deep square leg, dives forward and takes the catch. Made it look easy.

Jitesh c Wadhera b Chahal 2 (7)

RCB 32/4 in 5.5 overs

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: Brilliant work there from Marco Jansen and now Yuzvendra Chahal to bowl the sixth over. This is not going well for RCB at all. Jitesh Sharma is the new batter and he is beaten by Jansen last two balls in that over.

RCB’s run rate has dipped to 5.80.

RCB 29/3 in 5 overs

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: Well it doesn’t matter how curtailed a game it may be, it is always bad news to lose three wickets in the powerplay. Particularly when said powerplay lasts just four overs. Livingstone comes charging out to Bartlett last ball of the fourth over, gets a big leading edge. Priyansh Arya runs backwards from cover and takes the catch.

Livingstone c Arya b Bartlett 4 (6)

RCB 26/3 in 4 overs

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: That is an excellent catch by Marco Jansen. This was a length ball angling across the batter, Kohli tries to hit it downtown for a six. But he can’t get the required connection, Jansen has to track back a good distance from mid-on and he takes the ball over his head.

Kohli c Jansen b Arshdeep Singh 1 (3)

RCB 21/2 in 2.4 overs

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: Virat Kohli will finally face his first delivery on the 18th anniversary of his IPL debut in the third over. Patidar kept pinned for the first three balls and then they run two off the fourth. Then he whips the fifth over square leg for a six. He lofts the last ball straight down the ground, the fielder at mid-on hadn’t even bothered to move as it looked set to go for a one-bounce four. However, it bounces and just stops right there. The batters run two.

Patidar on 15 off eight balls.

RCB 19/1 in 2 overs

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: Xavier Bartlett to bowl the second. RCB captain Rajat Patidar comes in at No.3 and dispatches the first ball he faces right down the ground for a four. He takes a single next ball and so will be on strike next over as well.

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: It was either early big hits or an early wicket. The latter has happened for now. Shortish good length delivery for the fourth ball, Salt tries to go downtown but skies it. Wicketkeeper Josh Inglis calls for it but he has a long way to run. He is almost at square leg when he dives forward and takes the catch.

Salt c Inglis b Arshdeep Singh 4 (4)

RCB 4/1 in 0.4 overs

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: All right then, Kohli and Salt come bursting out from the boundaries, as do the PBKS players. Match start has been delayed by just over five minutes but it remains a 14-overs-a-side game. Arshdeep Singh to bowl the first over.

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: Well it isn’t much, we can only hope that it just passes by as quickly and suddenly as it came. It doesn’t look like there is too much alarm about it. We can see Virat Kohli and Phil Salt come down and stand by the boundary.

AND SURE ENOUGH, THE COVERS ARE BEING TAKEN OFF EVEN BEFORE THEY COULD BE PROPERLY PUT IN PLACE.

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: Priyansh Arya, Nehal Wadhera, Shreyas Iyer(c), Shashank Singh, Josh Inglis(w), Marcus Stoinis, Marco Jansen, Harpreet Brar, Xavier Bartlett, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal

Impact Subs: Prabhsimran Singh, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Suryansh Shedge, Glenn Maxwell, Praveen Dubey

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: Philip Salt, Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar(c), Liam Livingstone, Jitesh Sharma(w), Tim David, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Josh Hazlewood, Suyash Sharma, Yash Dayal

Impact Subs: Devdutt Padikkal, Rasikh Dar Salam, Manoj Bhandage, Jacob Bethell, Swapnil Singh

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: It is a 14-over game and the powerplay will be of four overs. Four bowlers can bowl a maximum of 3 overs each, 1 bowler can bowl the remaining 2 overs. The match could end around 11.55pm IST.

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: Rajat Patidar tosses the coin up, Shreyas Iyer calls it right and says that the Punjab Kings are bowling first.

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: And the match is scheduled to start at 9.45pm IST. No official confirmation on how many overs will be played and what the other match conditions are but it should be coming shortly.

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: Right the ground is buzzing with activity now. The umpires are walking around the pitch, having urgent conversations with the head honchos among the ground staff.

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: As do the other RCB players. At long last, we are seeing the kind of activity that one should be seeing at a cricket ground before a match – players warming up. The Punjab Kings players have also made their way into the middle.

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: The super sopper is going around doing its thing, as is the drainage system beneath the ground. We should have an official about toss and start time soon.

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: The crowd has come alive at the Chinnaswamy. As stated earlier, this place is packed to the rafters but it was very silent for a while now. But as the ground staff start moving the covers on the practice pitches, those decibels level increase steadily, eventually reaching a full throated roar. The big cover on the square is still in place but the ground staff is getting to it.

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: Well updates of such enthusiasm should have been reserved for a few sixes or wickets or big overs at this point but it is for the fourth umpire walking out with a folded umbrella. The rain has stopped. He is going and having a long chat with the curator.

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

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: The delays keep coming. It was said on broadcast that there would be an update of some sort around 8.30pm IST. Well, it’s been more than 15 minutes since and nothing yet.

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: The cut-off time for toss is 10.41pm IST and for the start of the match, it is 10.56pm. Needless to say, a minimum of five overs a side should be possible. Overs get deducted from 8.30pm IST and so we have already lost a few deliveries.

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: Well the rain has only got heavier in the last few minutes and we can see puddles now forming on the covers on the square. This is looking quite bleak. We can see Shreyas Iyer in conversation with Virat Kohli since well over half an hour now.

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: A couple of running repairs have taken place in the squads in the past couplem of days. Sri Lanka’s Dasun Shanaka has been snapped up by the Gujarat Titans as a replacement for the injured Glenn Phillips. Meanwhile CSK have roped in Dewald Brevis as replacement for their injured captain Ruturaj Gaikwad.

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: Hope levels went up slightly in the stadium when the showers decreased in intensity around 8pm. However, it has since proceeded to only increase since and is just fluctuating. Important thing is that it hasn’t stopped. No activity whatsoever on the field. We are as far away from a restart as Bengaluru is from Mumbai.

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: The update from the ground is that well, there are no real updates. The covers are firmly in place, ground staff nowhere to be seen and the pitter patter of rain everywhere.

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: The rain is light and covers haven’t come off yet. The start could be as late as 10:54 PM IST, and then we will have a 5-over-a-side match.

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: Well this is quite annoying. The stadium is packed to the rafters but all the progress that had been made after the drizzles stopped have to be rolled back now.

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: The drizzles have stopped and the officials are walking around. Ground staff are also making their way out onto the ground. Bengaluru does have a fantastic drainage system and so we could have a quick turnaround.

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: Glenn Maxwell also had a chat with the broadcasters, as his Australia teammate and opponent for the day Josh Hazlewood did earlier. “Certainly instills a lot of belief in the team (the win against KKR). We certainly knew we weren’t the best with the bat but we realized that there was something in the wicket that we could exploit. Obviously while defending a low total, you need a lot of things to go your way. I felt the energy we brought throughout the innings was a really good sign of things to come. Hopefully, we can keep the standards on the field and keep that energy. Hopefully, helps us going forward. Well hopefully, the rain goes away. With rain around since the last two days, the outfield is gonna be soft and slow. Scoring might not be as high as I have probably known in the last few years. But should be a really good contest. The small boundaries will always be enticing the batters. You have to be good with your skills as a bowler. The lucky thing about being an all-rounder, a couple of things about my bowling going really well. Will join the party at some stage. Probably a bit of luck and something going your way as a batter. Probably should have reviewed the first ball of the tournament that I faced (laughs). Things might have been different. I think making sure I keep my energy and am still upbeat. I have some of the best guys watching me train. Fingers crossed and I might turn it around with the bat.”

RCB vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings: Yes, this is the 18th season of the IPL and so you might be wondering why we are saying this now, right before the 34th game of the year. Well, that is because it is on April 18, 2008 that the first ever IPL match was played. Newly born fans of RCB didn’t really have a great time that night thanks to Brendon McCullum, who would go on to play for them many years later of course.