The rain covers remain on during match 34 of the Indian Premier League season 18 (IPL 2025) between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Punjab Kings held at the M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru on the 18th April 2025. (Sportzpics)The toss of the highly anticipated IPL match between Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Punjab Kings at the Chinnaswamy Stadium was delayed due to rain on Friday. There was already a prediction for rain on the day of the match but it was supposed to blow over by the time the match started but the weather gods had other ideas.
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Punjab Kings and the Royal Challengers came into the match with wins over Kolkata Knight Riders and Rajasthan Royals respectively. PBKS defended the lowest total in IPL history vs KKR while RCB blasted their way on the back of Virat Kohli’s 100th IPL half century to defeat Rajasthan.
AccuWeather predicts some rain in Bengaluru on Friday but that’s in the afternoon. The weather during the day is expected to be 32 degrees in the morning while it’ll be 34 degrees in the afternoon with the weather ‘partly sunny with a thunderstorm in parts of the area.’ The rain threat goes to nil in the evening but it’ll be partly cloudy by the time of the match.
In case of a washout, both teams split one point each. This will mean RCB will have 9 points from 7 matches while Punjab Kings will also have 9 from the same number of matches. If the match goes on as scheduled, it’ll still have 60 minutes buffer time before overs are reduced.
A minimum of 5 overs is required to get a result with the cut-off time for this being 10.56 PM with the game needing to be finished by 12.06 AM on Saturday.
Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Rajat Patidar (c), Virat Kohli, Yash Dayal, Josh Hazlewood, Phil Salt, Jitesh Sharma (wk), Liam Livingstone, Rasikh Salam, Suyash Sharma, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Swapnil Singh, Tim David, Romario Shepherd, Nuwan Thushara, Manoj Bhandage, Jacob Bethel, Devdutt Padikkal, Swastik Chhikara, Lungi Ngidi, Abhinandan Singh, Mohit Rathee.
Punjab Kings: Shreyas Iyer (c), Priyansh Arya, Prabhsimran Singh (wk), Nehal Wadhera, Shashank Singh, Glenn Maxwell, Marcus Stoinis, Marco Jansen, Yuzvendra Chahal, Arshdeep Singh, Yash Thakur, Suryansh Shedge, Praveen Dubey, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Harpreet Brar, Azmatullah Omarzai, Josh Inglis, Xavier Bartlett, Vishnu Vinod, Aaron Hardie, Kuldeep Sen, Harnoor Singh, Musheer Khan, Pyla Avinash.
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