RCB vs PBKS IPL 2024 Highlights: Lomror-Karthik's late heroics boost RCB to first win of season

Virat Kohli is the Player of the Match today. He also gets the orange cap for scoring 98 runs across the two innings in the season so far. 

Punjab Kings made a stunning comeback after Virat Kohli's dismissal in the 16th over but Royal Challengers Bengaluru emerge victorious at home after a late hammering from veteran Dinesh Karthik (28* off 10 balls) and impact sub Mahipal Lomror (17* off 8 balls). 

Virat Kohli top-scored with 77 runs off 49 balls for RCB while Harpreet Brar and Kagiso Rabada took two wickets each for PBKS. 

PBKS - 176/8 in 20 overs

RCB - 178/6 in 19.2 overs

Arhsdeep Singh bowls the last over, RCB need 10 off 6 balls with Karthik on strike

19.1 - Karthik whips it for a SIX over fine-leg boundary

19.2 - Wide delivery and now RCB need just 3 runs to win the game

19.3 - It's a straight four and RCB win the game

Harshal Patel bowls the all-important 19th over

18.1 - Lomror takes a single

18.2 - Wide delivery

18.3 - Dot ball, Karthik misses it

18.4 - Karthik smashes 4 

18.5 -  Full toss lands on pads, appeal from Harshal, umpire says not out, it's another dot ball 

18.6 - Short ball and Karthik sends it for SIX over the fine-leg

18.7 - Karthik takes single

RCB need 10 runs in 6 balls now!!

Youngster Mahipal Lomror smashes Arshdeep Singh for six and four to get RCB back in the game. 

RCB now now need 23 off just 12 balls.

And now Curran gets Rawat out LBW. This is getting out of RCB's hands. They review but it was umpire's call on hitting leg stump. Impact sub Lomror is in now

Harshal gets the big fish now. He manages to get the better of the former RCB captain, who falls for a well made 77 off 49 balls. He slices it to deep backward-point and PBKS still hope, they can get this. Silence at the Chinnaswamy as Kohli walks back. 47 still needed off 24

This is going a little above now. RCB need 59 off the last 5 overs and the required rate is almost 12.

100 is up for Bengaluru and Kohli is looking in some mood today. He is already over 60 and might even get a triple-digit score. RCB need 74 from 48. Brar gets another one and now he cleans up Maxwell. Anuj Rawat now comes to bat

Brar gets Patidar bowled and some joy for for the PBKS fans. It angled onto the middle-stump, Patidar looked to hoick it but he misses it as the stumps are broken. Maxwell now comes in

Kohli gets to his 92nd fifty-plus score in T20 cricket. This has been a good knock by him.

RCB are cruising well now. Kohli is looking amazing to watch, while Patidar is also looking good. After 9 overs, RCB are at 77/2

PBKS have taken some momentum from RCB with the wicket of Green. But Kohli is still out there and looking very good. RCB 50/2 after 6

Rabada gets another and he gets Green now. The Aussie all-rounder was promoted up the order but could not make much impact as he edged one to the keeper, who takes a fine low catch. Patidar now comes in

RCB have made a good start despite losing Faf du Plessis early on

Punjab will finish at 176/6 and its a decent total, looking at the mid-innings position. Shashank Singh helps PBKS get 20 off the final over. He hit Alzarri for two sixes and a four and PBKS would feel they have something on the board to fight with.

Punjab are 156/6 after 19 overs and lost Jitesh to Siraj. One final push is now needed to reach into 170s

Yash Dayal gets Sam Curran on a brilliant bouncer. Well taken by Anuj Rawat and PBKS are now 5 down. Shahasnk comes in with PBKS just over 150 and 2 overs left. Can they get 180?

16 overs are done and PBKS are at 132/4 with Curran and Jitesh in the middle. Curran had a brilliant outing in Punjab's last match and can he replicate it? Jitesh is hitting them well but RCB have still not let PBKS go big

Livingstone and Dhawan fall on back-to-back balls and this is not what Punjab wanted. Alzarri first got Livingstone with a back-of-a-length ball that probably hurried on him. Maxwell gets his second now as Dhawan miscues one to long-off

Glenn Maxwell gets a wicket in his first over. Prabhsimran just hit him for a six but falls quickly after it as he skies a pull to Anuj Rawat. Livingstone comes now

PBKS batters have stepped their foot on the gas, sensing they need a big score. The last two overs yielded 21 runs and its a break time. We are back, Maxwell to bowl now

The powerplay is done and PBKS have made 40/1. Shikhar and Prabhsimran are in the middle after Punjab lost Bairstow early. Dhawan just amassed a 10-run over, while Prabhsimran got six in the 6th over. But RCB have kept them in check.

Siraj gets the first breakthrough as he sends Bairstow packing. The batter wanted to pull this one as it was a little shorter than the previous two balls. But gets an edge and Kohli takes it in front of mid-off

Shikhar Dhawan and Jonny Bairstow start for PBKS with the bat. Mohammed Siraj has the new ball in hand and off we go

"First of three back to back home games for RCB as they take on Punjab Kings. This has been a high-scoring ground because of the dimensions and the center pitch is being used; 60 meters on either side and straight is 70 meters. It certainly does (look like a high-scoring Chinnaswamy pitch). The pitch is rock hard, there's a bit of grass on it and what we know about last year's IPL is the average first innings score is 196. The ball is going to fly everywhere. The trend in this IPL so far has been the home team winning. Can the RCB get off the mark tonight in front of their adoring fans? There are a few cracks but they look superficial and it also looks patchy with patches of grass. Maybe a little bit two-paced because it is dry where there are cracks but  under lights you expect the ball to come on to the bat," Deep Dasgupta and Simon Katich say in their pitch report.

Impact subs of both teams

Royal Challengers Bengaluru Subs: Suyash Prabhudessai, Mahipal Lomror, Karn Sharma, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Swapnil Singh

Punjab Kings Subs: Arshdeep Singh, Rilee Rossouw, Tanay Thyagarajan, Harpreet Bhatia, Vidwath Kaverappa

Punjab Kings (Playing XI): Shikhar Dhawan(c), Jonny Bairstow, Prabhsimran Singh, Sam Curran, Jitesh Sharma(w), Liam Livingstone, Shashank Singh, Harpreet Brar, Harshal Patel, Kagiso Rabada, Rahul Chahar

Royal Challengers Bengaluru (Playing XI): Faf du Plessis(c), Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar, Glenn Maxwell, Cameron Green, Dinesh Karthik, Anuj Rawat(w), Alzarri Joseph, Mayank Dagar, Mohammed Siraj, Yash Dayal

We would have bowled first. But looking forward to batting first now. We did a lot of right things in the first game and that's why we ended up on the winning side. We have to keep improving each game. Same team.

We are going to have a bowl. It looks a pretty good wicket but also because of the way our team is set up. You can say that RCB hasn't won a trophy, but the ladies (RCBW) broke the sealing and hopefully that motivates us. The boys are excited for the season. In any game of cricket you can't lose cluster of wickets, we did manage to recover towards the end but that is something we have to improve on. Same team and one or two options on changing the substitutions.

Faf du Plessis has won the toss and RCB are bowling first against Punjab Kings. Same team for RCB, one or two options in impact sub but same team, Faf says at toss

The captains are in the middle and the toss is coming up soon now

RCB played the IPL 2024 opener against CSK on March 22 and went down by 6 wickets at CSK's den. Their batting order had its fair share of moments but could muster 173. The strong CSK batting order had enough to clinch the game.

PBKS come into this game after a win against DC. Sam Curran and Livingstone starred with the bat and helped the Kings chase down the target of 175.

IPL 2024 heads to M. Chinnaswamy Stadium for the first time in the ongoing tournament. Little more than a week before, the fans were dancing and were going gaga on the streets of Bengaluru as their women's team had won the WPL. The teams now head to Bengaluru with fans expecting and praying of a double this season. The road started but with a loss to CSK. Now they need to regroup and face PBKS in the second game. Stay tuned as we take you across this game