Punjab Kings will face Royal Challengers Bangalore today in the 58th match of the Indian Premier League. This match will be played at Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium, Punjab’s home ground Dharamshala from 7.30 pm. The toss of this match will take place at 7 pm. This will be the second match between Punjab and Bangalore this season. In the last match, Bangalore had won by 4 wickets. Both PBKS and RCB will have their 12th match of the season today. Both teams have won 4 out of 11 matches and lost 7. With the best run rate, Bangalore is at 7th and Punjab is at 8th. The team that wins today’s match will keep its playoff hopes intact and the team that loses there will almost be out like Mumbai.
pbks vs rcb ipl 2024
If we talk about head to head here, Bangalore is superior to Punjab, but Bangalore has won in the last two matches. Punjab’s last win against RCB was in 2022, after which two matches were played between them, both of which were won by RCB. So far 32 IPL matches have been played between Punjab and Bangalore. Out of which Punjab won 17 and Bangalore won 15. Both the teams had met only once in 2011 in Dharamshala. In which Punjab won by 111 runs.
Shashank Singh, Jonny Bairstow and Prabhsimran Singh are in great form for Punjab. These three players have scored more than 250 runs. Shashank Singh is the top scorer of the team by scoring 315 runs. RCB’s poor performance continues this season also. But the team’s batsmen are in excellent form. Star batsman Virat Kohli, captain Faf du Plessis and Dinesh Karthik have scored more than 250 runs. Kohli has 542 runs in his name. At present Kohli is the top scorer of both the team and the league.
pbks vs rcb ipl 2024
Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium is the second home ground of Punjab. The second match of this season will be played here. Where a total of 12 IPL matches have been played so far. On this pitch, 7 matches have been won by the teams batting first and 5 matches by chasing teams. The best score here is 232, which was made by Punjab against Bangalore.
Teams probable playing eleven
Punjab Kings: Sam Curran (captain), Jonny Bairstow, Riley Rousseau, Jitesh Sharma, Shashank Singh, Ashutosh Sharma, Harpreet Brar, Kagiso Rabara, Harshal Patel, Rahul Chahar and Arshdeep Singh.
Royal Challengers Bangalore: Faf du Plessis (captain), Virat Kohli, Will Jacques, Cameron Green, Glenn Maxwell, Dinesh Karthik (wicketkeeper), Swapril Singh, Mohammed Siraj, Karan Sharma, Vijaykumar Vaishakh and Yash Dayal.
