Delhi: The 61st match of IPL 2026 is being held today at the HPCA Stadium in Dharamshala, where Punjab Kings are facing off against Royal Challengers Bangalore. A big update has come out before the match. Actually, Rajat Patidar has not taken part in this match due to injury and in his place Jitesh Sharma is in charge of RCB.

Before the start of the match, the toss was won by Shreyas Iyer, who is playing his 100th match as captain in IPL today. Punjab has chosen to bowl first. There have been two changes each in the playing-11 of both Punjab and RCB teams.

After electing to bat first, RCB scored 222/4 in the stipulated 20 overs with the help of innings of Virat Kohli (58) and Venkatesh Iyer (73*). Punjab has got the target of 223 runs to win.

Playing-11 of both the teams:

Playing-11 of Royal Challengers Bangalore:

Jacob Bethel, Virat Kohli, Devdutt Padikkal, Venkatesh Iyer, Jitesh Sharma (wk/captain), Tim David, Romario Shepherd, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Josh Hazlewood, Suyyash Sharma

Impact Subs: Rasikh Salaam Dar, Jordan Cox, Abhinandan Singh, Swapnil Singh, Kanishk Chauhan

Playing-11 of Punjab Kings:

Priyansh Arya, Prabhsimran Singh (wicketkeeper), Cooper Connolly, Shreyas Iyer (captain), Suryansh Shedge, Shashank Singh, Azmatullah Omarzai, Harpreet Brar, Lockie Ferguson, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal.

Impact Subs: Marcus Stoinis, Xavier Bartlett, Vishnu Vinod, Musheer Khan, Praveen Dubey