RCB vs KKR LIVE Score

RCB play KKR tonight and a win would ensure that they have one foot in the play-offs. RCB would need another win to secure a last four spot with 18 points being the safer number compared to 16. Only Mumbai Indians qualified with 16 points last season. With 14 points from seven wins in 11 games, RCB have the best net run rate among the teams in contention. After KKR, they play Punjab Kings and SunRisers Hyderabad in their last two league fixtures.

"It's very necessary when you do well in the previous matches for your confidence and when you have confidence, I think I said it before as well, it always helps you to execute better. But of course, [bowling] is always there. That six with a bat, I think not just from that perspective of the match, but again when there are a few matches and situations comes like this, I can feel that I've done it before and I can do it again. (How do you stay fresh and ensure that if and when you get to the playoffs, you're still up and ready to go?) I think it's very necessary how you prepare for that before the season and then when you come into the season, the practice sessions that you want to do it or you don't want to do it depends on your feel," said RCB pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar.

"The body is good. Even though IPL is long, you have a decent amount of breaks to kind of reflect and relax and just get your mind off cricket at some times. (On KKR's 4-match winning streak) I think it's all 12 guys on the team who are getting up and trying to contribute in whatever way they can, trying to stick to their roles. And, obviously, when you win one and two, you're on a roll, so you continue doing that. So hopefully we can continue the same momentum. It's going to be tough beating RCB because they are playing good cricket, but I think it's all about how you start, whether you bat or you bowl," said KKR star Sunil Narine.

"Hot, humidity and the odd thunderstorm. We just had one, and the guys [groundstaff] over are cleaning up and waiting for us, so we'd better hurry up. 65,400 get into this cricket stadium, and it is the fourth largest in the world. Now, the pitch just a few days ago, RCB played their first game, it was a little bit up and down. Aaron Finch was there watching. He's here with us now. What do you make of the surface today, Finchy? Well, it's a different wicket. This has never been used in an IPL or an international game. It's pitch number four, but it looks very, very similar to what we saw in the previous game, which was a 160 chase and chased down. If Spider[cam] comes down with me here, you can see all of these cracks, but you can see some cross-crack, and that's where you start to get the up and down bounce. And when you look back to the previous game, 14 of the 15 wickets were taken by the quicks," Nick Knight and Aaron Finch.

The Ajinkya Rahane-led team had a disastrous first half but managed to stay alive with wins in last four games after losing six in a row. They still have a game in hand compared to other teams and can reach a maximum of 17 points which may be enough for qualification. However, if today's match gets washed out, then KKR will be all but out from the Playoffs race.

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