IPL 2024 RCB vs PBKS Match Highlights: After the wicket of Virat Kohli, for a time it seemed that Royal Challengers Bangalore would lose the match. Kohli was out in the 16th over, when the team needed 47 runs in 24 balls to win. But then Dinesh Karthik and Mahilpal Lomror made a partnership of 48* runs and took the team across the victory line. Believe me, Karthik and Lomror snatched the victory from the jaws of Punjab. Kohli had scored 77 runs by hitting 11 fours and 2 sixes.
In the sixth match of IPL 2024, RCB defeated Punjab Kings by 4 wickets. The match played at M Chinnaswamy Stadium was very interesting. The match was not going one way or the other. The results of the match seemed to be changing every moment, but in the end RCB won. For the team, Dinesh Karthik scored 28* runs in 10 balls with the help of 3 fours and 2 sixes. Lomror supported him and scored 17* runs in 8 balls with the help of 2 fours and 1 six. Lomror had entered as an impact player and left a different impact.
Batting first in the match, Punjab Kings scored 176/6 runs on the board in 20 overs. Chasing the target, Bengaluru team won by 6 wickets in 19.2 overs. With this victory, RCB opened the account of victory in IPL 2024 as they had lost the first match against Chennai.
RCB's start was nothing special
Kohli, who came to open, had already taken the team's score to 16 runs by hitting four fours in the first over, but captain Faf du Plessis at the other end was not looking in good form. RCB got the first blow in the form of captain Faf (03), who became the victim of Kagiso Rabada in the third over. After this, Cameron Green (03) returned to the pavilion in the fifth over.
However, after this, Kohli and Patidar made a partnership of 43 (35 balls) for the third wicket and then the team lost the third wicket in the 11th over in the form of Patidar, who scored 18 (18 balls) runs by hitting 1 four and 1 six. After this, the team got a big blow in the form of Glenn Maxwell, who returned to the pavilion after scoring only 3 runs in the 13th over.
Then Virat Kohli's wicket fell in the 16th over and all the hopes of the team were almost lost. Kohli was out after scoring 77 runs (49 balls) with the help of 11 fours and 2 sixes. Then Anuj Rawat returned to the pavilion in the 17th over. Rawat scored only 11 (14 balls) runs with the help of 1 four.
From here Mahilapal Lomror and Dinesh Karthik made the team win the lost game. Both of them added 48* (18 balls) runs for the seventh wicket and led the team to victory.
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