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RCB vs CSK IPL 2024 Live Score: Get Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) vs Chennai Super Kings (CSK) Live Score Updates from M.Chinnaswamy Stadium

Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Chennai Super Kings IPL 2024 Live Score: Virat Kohli and Faf Du Plessis resume for Royal Challengers Bengaluru after rain break against Chennai Super Kings at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru

The Indian Express’ man on the ground in Bengaluru, Venkata Krishna B, has been giving us updates on everything that’s happening at the Chinnaswamy Stadium during the game. He has been keeping tabs on the weather as well. At 8:15 pm, Venkata reports that the weather is now behaving itself. “It has stopped completely. The covers are coming off,” informs Venkata from Bengaluru.

With RCB being sent out to bat first after the toss, they have to beat CSK by a margin of 18 runs or more when the 5-time champions come out to chase later in the match. The home team will be playing with one change with Glenn Maxwell coming in for Will Jacks while the visitors replaces Moeen Ali with Mitchell Santner.

This could be the last time fans will see Virat Kohli and MS Dhoni together at the crease, which will also decide the final play-off spot. Though the weather department had issued an orange alert for the city with heavy showers predicted for the weekend, it hadn’t started raining till the time the match started but it began to drizzle by the time the second over.

Teams:

Royal Challengers Bengaluru (Playing XI): Faf du Plessis(c), Virat Kohli, Glenn Maxwell, Rajat Patidar, Cameron Green, Mahipal Lomror, Dinesh Karthik(w), Karn Sharma, Yash Dayal, Lockie Ferguson, Mohammed Siraj

Chennai Super Kings (Playing XI): Rachin Ravindra, Ruturaj Gaikwad(c), Daryl Mitchell, Ajinkya Rahane, Ravindra Jadeja, MS Dhoni(w), Mitchell Santner, Shardul Thakur, Tushar Deshpande, Simarjeet Singh, Maheesh Theekshana

Follow live score and updates of RCB vs CSK from Bengaluru below.

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