"Start from VK, Finish from DK" - Twitter reacts as Virat Kohli, Dinesh Karthik stun PBKS in IPL 2024

In the 6th match of the Indian Premier League 2024 (IPL 2024) Shikhar Dhawan’s Punjab Kings (PBKS) took on Faf du Plessis’ Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) on March 25 at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru.

Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) won the toss and they elected to bowl first in the match. At the bowler’s graveyard, the RCB bowling unit stepped up their game and didn’t let the Punjab Kings post a massive total on the board.

The PBKS batters just couldn’t get going and they were not able to play an attacking brand of cricket. Shikhar Dhawan, after losing his opening partner Jonny Bairstow quickly, batted cautiously throughout his innings and got dismissed when he tried to launch an attack. The PBKS skipper was dismissed after scoring 45 runs off 37 balls and his innings consisted of 5 fours and 1 six.

Then, Prabhsimran Singh (25), Liam Livingstone (17), Sam Curran (23), and Jitesh Sharma (27) came up with significant contributions. However, the real blitz came from Shashank Singh, who came out all guns blazing.

Just after coming out in the middle, Shashank launched an attack on Royal Challengers Bengaluru bowlers. He took the bowling unit the cleansers and smashed runs at a strike rate of 262.50 in his 8-ball stay at the crease. Shashank Singh smashed 21 runs and his innings consisted of one four and two sixes. PBKS posted 176/6 on the board, which wasn’t that great of a total considering the ground that was hosting the match.

Talking about the Royal Challengers Bengaluru bowlers, Mohammed Siraj and Glenn Maxwell picked up two wickets each while Yash Dayal and Alzarri Joseph bagged one wicket each with the former giving away his runs at an economy of 5.75.

Chasing the target, Faf du Plessis left his partner Virat Kohli in the middle in the 3rd over as he got dismissed after scoring poor 3 runs off 7 balls. If that was not enough Cameron Green also scored the same runs as his skipper and was back in the dugout in the 5th over.

Then, Virat Kohli took the onus on himself and stitched together 43 runs in 35 balls with Rajat Patidar helping RCB get the much-needed stability. After losing Patidar, Kohli kept batting brilliantly and he was involved in two more great partnerships with Glenn Maxwell and Anuj Rawat.

However, the modern-day batting great wasn’t able to finish off the game for his team. He was dismissed by Harshal Patel in the 16th over of the innings after smashing 77 runs off 49 balls and his knock consisted of 11 fours and 2 sixes.

In the end, Dinesh Karthik played an exceptional cameo of 28 runs and he was well supported by Mahipal Lomror (17) as the Royal Challengers Bengaluru won the match by 4 wickets to register their first win in the competition.

Here’s How Twitter Reacted To RCB vs PBKS, IPL 2024 Match 6:

Brilliant from RCB. Virat Kohli’s inning and his strike rate of 157 was special 👏

— Irfan Pathan (@IrfanPathan) March 25, 2024

VK doing VK. DK doing DK. Impact player (Lomror) doing impact player job. Home team winning again. 6/6 wins for home teams this season. Who'll be the first away team to win? #RCBvPBKS #IPL2024

— Wasim Jaffer (@WasimJaffer14) March 25, 2024

WHAT A GAME! WHAT A FINISH! 🔥🔥🔥

— Royal Challengers Bengaluru (@RCBTweets) March 25, 2024

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— Punjab Kings (@PunjabKingsIPL) March 25, 2024

RCB HAVE DEFEATED PUNJAB KINGS AT THE CHINNASWAMY. 🔥 pic.twitter.com/EEBWJMUbKv

— Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) March 25, 2024

RCB DEFEATED PBKS BY 4 WICKETS….!!!!

– What an incredible run chase, heroes are Kohli, Lomror & Karthik. RCB are back in business in IPL 2024. pic.twitter.com/uw9TwmhX9z

— Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns) March 25, 2024

DK must go to world cup 😊😊… jokes apart but he is a beast in death overs for rcb #RCBvsPKBS #Dk

— Samip Rajguru (@samiprajguru) March 25, 2024

DK is once again showing why he is amongst the best in a tense T20 chase! #cricket #RCBvsPBKS #IPL2024

— Chandresh Narayanan (@chand2579) March 25, 2024

Start from VK! Finish from DK! Rcb win, life is good, everything is OK 🔥🔥

— Danish Sait (@DanishSait) March 25, 2024

Wo, @DineshKarthik, no one else slips between the commentary box and the middle like you do!

— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) March 25, 2024

Preity Zinta looking very sad now, her team is losing from a winning position 😞

It's so hard for me to choose between her and King Kohli but I'll go with Kohli 💔💔💔#IPL2024 #tapmad #HojaoADFree pic.twitter.com/ZYYhJJNIq8

— Farid Khan (@_FaridKhan) March 25, 2024

PBKS bowlers ne itna kachra kar diya, Bengaluru has water shortage and can't clean it.

— Silly Point (@FarziCricketer) March 25, 2024

Dinesh Karthik is in now contention for the T20 World Cup.😂

— Bhawana (@bhawnakohli5) March 25, 2024

This is the swansong that Dinesh Karthik fully deserves. Has never got an opportunity to play for CSK. Hopefully, should get to sign-off at Chepauk. Would be a fitting farewell.
P.S: Also CSK tried their best to get him this season coz of their long association with IC.

— Venkata Krishna B (@venkatatweets) March 25, 2024

What a great win for #RCB. Well done Kohli and the boys. Much needed first won of the #IPL2024

— Dodda Ganesh | ದೊಡ್ಡ ಗಣೇಶ್ (Modi Ka Parivar) (@doddaganesha) March 25, 2024

https://twitter.com/Sports_Himanshu/status/1772319600316686575?t=WXnXnMXgW39M2Y3A_VIQhg&s=19

.@DineshKarthik the man 🤌🏾 Class, composure and experience wrapped it up for @RCBTweets!! Kudos to @mahipallomror36 for bringing his A game as the impact player👏🏾

— Robin Aiyuda Uthappa (@robbieuthappa) March 25, 2024

Leave it to DK! Not for the first time the wicket-keeper comes up with a marvellous matchwinning cameo to puncture Punjab’s hopes at the death. Heady opening week of IPL2024!

— Cricketwallah (@cricketwallah) March 25, 2024