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RCB opened the victory from Karthik-Lamaror's Finishing Touch
RCB vs PBKS IPL 2024: royal challengers Bangalore registered the first win of the season by defeating punjab Kings by 4 wickets in the sixth match of IPL 2024. virat kohli played an excellent innings of 77 runs. dinesh karthik and Impact Sub Mahipal Lomorore brought RCB to the threshold of victory.
RCB achieved the target of 177 runs with 4 balls remaining.
royal challengers Bangalore (RCB) defeated the punjab Kings (PBKS) by 4 wickets and opened the victory account in IPL 2024. On the day of holi at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium, RCB batsmen staged a target of 177 runs. In the last over, the Faf Duplesi Brigade needed 10 runs to win. dinesh karthik finished the match by hitting Arshedeep Singh's first two balls and hitting a six. Impact Sub-Mahipal Lomorore also played an important role in the victory of the team, with 17 runs off 8 balls. Earlier, Virat Kohli's show was seen at Chinnaswamy Stadium.
RCB got a fast start to chase the target, but the team lost the wickets of captain Faf Duplesey and cameron Green within 5 overs. However, virat kohli was frozen at the other end. He got a life on the second ball of RCB's innings. Kohli's catch was not covered in johnny Bairstow's Slip. Run machine kohli took advantage of this and gave Pachasa 31 balls. This was his 100th fifty-plus score in t20 cricket. Meanwhile, he had made a good extension with Rajat Patidar. Harpreet Brar pushed RCB to the backfoot by dismissing Rajat Patidar (18 off 18 balls) and Glenn Maxwell (3 off 5 balls) in the 11th and 13th over.
kohli, along with Anuj Rawat, carried the innings forward from here. He was making the match when Harshal patel dismissed him on the last ball of the 16th over and made him silent in Chinnaswamy. kohli played 77 runs in 49 balls. During this, 11 fours and 2 sixes came out of his bat. After Kohli's dismissal, Anuj Rawat (11 runs off 14 balls) also returned to the pavilion behind him. From here, RCB needed 47 runs in 22 balls to win. dinesh karthik and Mahipal Lomorore batting at Atishi, while batting at 4 balls, took their team to the threshold of victory. Veteran karthik scored 28 runs in 10 balls with the help of 3 fours and 2 sixes. For punjab, Brar and Cagiso Rabada took two wickets each.
punjab Kings batsmen failed in death overs
punjab did not have a good start when he was invited to bat first. The team's score reached 17 runs and johnny Bairstow fell victim to Siraj by scoring 8 runs in 6 balls. Captain shikhar dhawan (45 off 37 balls) and Prabhasimran Singh (25 in 17 balls) shared a 55-run partnership for the second wicket. Maxwell dismissed Prabhasimran and applied a brake on this partnership. After this, dhawan and Lium Livingston took the score to close to 100 in the 12th over. From here the punjab team was seen going around 190, but dhawan and Livingston's wickets got down due to their losing their wickets quickly. shashank Singh ground Aljari Joseph 20 runs in the last over of the innings and brought punjab to a challenging score. But this proved to be insufficient. Mohammad Siraj and Glenn Maxwell played an important role in stopping punjab below 180 with 2-2 wickets.
