Punjab Kings (PBKS) will look to get back to winning ways to keep their slim hopes of a playoff spot alive when they host Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) in match 58 of Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 at the HPCA Stadium in Dharamsala on Thursday (May 9).
Sam Curran-led PBKS come into the match on the back of a 28-run loss to Chennai Super Kings at the same venue in Dharamsala, while Faf Du Plessis-led RCB are fresh from a thumping home win against Gujarat Titans.

After a couple of good chases, eighth-placed PBKS failed to chase down 168 against CSK after they were restricted to 139, while seventh-placed RCB started in a flash in their run-chase before a stuttering finish saw them chase down 148 in their most recent outing in IPL 2024.
RCB also will take confidence from having beaten PBKS in the reverse fixture in Bengaluru earlier in the season when the two sides clash for the 33rd time in their second meeting at the Dharamsala venue. Here is a look at PBKS vs RCB head to head numbers:
In the 32 RCB vs PBKS head to head meetings in IPL, it’s Punjab Kings, who have the advantage with 17 wins against Royal Challengers Bengaluru, who have won 15 such encounters. In the last 4 meetings, it’s all square at 2-2 between RCB and PBKS.
In the most recent meeting, RCB rode on Virat Kohli (77 off 49) fifty along with late unbeaten cameos from Dinesh Karthik (28* off 10) and Mahipal Lomror (17* off 8) to seal a run chase of 177 with 4 wickets and 4 balls to spare in Bengaluru. Here is a look at RCB vs PBKS stats:
| Stats | For PBKS vs RCB | For RCB vs PBKS |
| Wins Batting 1st | 7 | 8 |
| Wins Chasing | 10 | 7 |
| Highest Total | 232 | 226 |
| Lowest Total | 88 | 109 |
| Highest Successful Chase | 208 | 204 |
| Lowest Total Defended | 138 | 145 |
| Most Runs | KL Rahul (451 runs) | Virat Kohli (938 runs) |
| Highest scorer | KL Rahul (132*) | Chris Gayle (117) |
| Most Sixes | KL Rahul (28 sixes) | Chris Gayle (49 sixes) |
| Most Fours | KL Rahul (34 fours) | Virat Kohli (101 fours) |
| Most Fifties | KL Rahul, Chris Gayle, Ravi Bopara, Shaun Marsh (2 fifties each) | AB de Villiers (7 fifties) |
| Most Hundreds | KL Rahul, Adam Gilchrist & David Miller (1 hundred each) | Chris Gayle (2 hundreds) |
| Most wickets | Sandeep Sharma (16 wickets) | Yuzvendra Chahal (25 wickets) |
| Best Bowling | Piyush Chawla (4/17) | Sreenath Aravind (4/14) |
The two sides have crossed paths only once in Dharamsala with the match taking place back in 2011, when Adam Gilchrist’s century powered PBKS to 232 before Piyush Chawla (4 for 17) and Ryan Harris (3 for 28) helped bundle out RCB for 121 to seal a massive 111-run win.
Apart from the solitary clash against RCB, PBKS has faced several other opponents at the HPCA Stadium in Dharamsala since hosting the first game at the venue back in 2010. Here is a look at the teams’ record at the venue: