Lucknow Super Giants vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru Match Scorecard Highlights: RCB Wins By Five Wickets, Virat Kohli Climbs Top Of The Orange Cap Leaderboard
✍️ Written by: Pragun Mehrotra
RCB vs LSG Live Score IPL 2026 Today Match Updates: Catch Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Lucknow Super Giants Live Score, RCB vs LSG live cricket updates, and ball-by-ball commentary of the RCB vs LSG match of the Indian Premier League 2026 from Bengaluru here on NewsX. You can watch a live streaming of RCB vs LSG on JioHotstar and broadcast on Star Sports.
RCB vs LSG Live Score IPL 2026 Today Match Live Updates: Virat Kohli once again starred for RCB in yet another chase. The former skipper scored 49 runs and was the top run-getter in a clash where batting wasn’t as straightforward. Rajat Patidar continued his fine form with the bat in hand. He scored 27 runs in only 13 balls before being dismissed. The defending champs registered a five-wicket win with 29 balls left to spare. Prince Yadav, with three wickets, and Avesh Khan, with two wickets, were the only wicket-takers for the Super Giants.
Earlier, It was a splendid bowling performance from the Royal Challengers Bengaluru. The defending champions bowled Lucknow Super Giants for only 146 runs in the first innings. Rasikh Salam with a four-fer and Bhuvneshwar Kumar with a three-wicket haul were the pick among the bowlers. Meanwhile, Rishabh Pant injured his hand and retired hurt. He came back to the crease but was dismissed after scoring only a single run.
TOSS — Rajat Patidar wins the toss as Royal Challengers Bengaluru opt to bowl against Lucknow Super Giants in match no. 23 of the Indian Premier League (IPL) at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium on Wednesday. Josh Hazlewood replaces Jacob Duffy in RCB’s playing XI.
RCB vs LSG Live Score IPL 2026: Royal Challengers Bengaluru Preview
Royal Challengers Bengaluru have started the 2026 season right from where they left off. The defending champions have won three out of their four games in the season. At home, they have won two out of two games. Once again, as the Lucknow-based franchise makes the trip to Bengaluru, it will be RCB who will fancy their chances of winning the clash and making it to the top of the standings. Skipper, Rajat Patidar has scored the most runs for the team. What has been impressive with his batting performance is his strike rate of 214.28. Only Vaibhav Sooryavanshi has scored more than Patidar’s 195 runs at a better strike rate.
RCB vs LSG Live Score IPL 2026: Lucknow Super Giants Preview
Lucknow Super Giants have not started in the manner they would have liked. The Rishabh Pant-led side has two wins in four games. However, he would know that both of those wins were hard-fought, and the one against the Kolkata Knight Riders could have easily ended in a defeat if not for Mukul Choudhary’s heroics. In their last two games against RCB at Chinnaswamy Stadium, the Super Giants have emerged victorious. The visitors would want to repeat the success in Bengaluru.
Royal Challengers Bengaluru Squad
Rajat Patidar (C), Philip Salt, Virat Kohli, Devdutt Padikkal, Jitesh Sharma (wk), Tim David, Romario Shepherd, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jacob Duffy, Suyash Sharma, Rasikh Salam Dar, Venkatesh Iyer, Jacob Bethell, Swapnil Singh, Mangesh Yadav, Josh Hazlewood, Jordan Cox, Nuwan Thushara, Vicky Ostwal, Vihaan Malhotra, Abhinandan Singh, Kanishk Chouhan, Satvik Deswal.
Lucknow Super Giants Squad
Rishabh Pant (C/wk), Aiden Markram, Mitchell Marsh, Ayush Badoni, Nicholas Pooran, Abdul Samad, Mukul Choudhary, George Linde, Mohammed Shami, Avesh Khan, Digvesh Singh Rathi, Prince Yadav, Manimaran Siddharth, Shahbaz Ahmed, Mayank Yadav, Matthew Breetzke, Anrich Nortje, Josh Inglis, Himmat Singh, Mohsin Khan, Arjun Tendulkar, Akash Maharaj Singh, Akshat Raghuwanshi, Arshin Kulkarni, Naman Tiwari.
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- 22:45 (IST) 15 Apr 2026
Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Lucknow Super Giants, IPL 2026 Live Match Scorecard And Updates: RCB Win By 5 Wickets!
Royal Challengers Bengaluru continued their fine form in IPL 2026. The Rajat Patidar-led side won their fourth game of the season. At home, where they did not have the best of starts in the previous year, the defending champions have already won three out of three games. They defeated LSG by five wickets, chasing down 147 with 29 balls to spare. With a huge win, RCB are now on top of the IPL 2026 points table.
- 22:40 (IST) 15 Apr 2026
Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Lucknow Super Giants, IPL 2026 Live Match Scorecard And Updates: Expensive Over From Digvesh Rathi!
Digvesh Rathi’s expensive night came to an end with yet another costly over. The leg-spinner gave 13 runs in 14th over. However, he would hard done by with a fielding effort from Aiden Markram that could have led him to his first wicket of the night. In the over, he was hit for a six and a four by Tim David.
- 22:35 (IST) 15 Apr 2026
Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Lucknow Super Giants, IPL 2026 Live Match Scorecard And Updates: RCB Lose Half Their Side!
Prince Yadav picked up a couple of wickets in his third over. He was struck for a six on the first ball but bounced back quickly and dismissed Rajat Patidar. A couple of balls later, Prince got the better of Jitesh as RCB lost their fifth wicket.
- 22:30 (IST) 15 Apr 2026
Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Lucknow Super Giants, IPL 2026 Live Match Scorecard And Updates: Jitesh Goes Big!
If there was one player for RCB who had not hit any form, it was Jitesh Sharma. However, the wicketkeeper batter shut all the doubters. He went after Digvesh Rathi hitting a couple of sixes and a couple of fours on the trot to end the 12th over.
- 22:25 (IST) 15 Apr 2026
Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Lucknow Super Giants, IPL 2026 Live Updates: Kohli Out For 49!
No fifty for Virat Kohli as Avesh Khan dismisses the former RCB skipper one run short of the milestone. Avesh Khan gave six runs in the 11th over. Rajat Patidar struck yet another boundary in the over.
