IPL live: Kohli's unbeaten 68 guides RCB to 175/4

Live Blog: Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Kolkata Knight Riders

OVER 1: Good get started by Southee. Just five runs of it. RCB 5/zero in chase of 176

Lynn and Narine have pop out to chase for KKR whilst Tim Southee opens the bowling for RCB

Riding on skipper Virat Kohli's unbeaten 68, RCB put up 175/4 towards KKR

OVER 20: 16 runs from the over as RCB put 175/4 at the board

OVER 19: Mavi bowls an excellent penultimate over, offers handiest 9 runs. RCB 159/4

OVER 18: 17 runs from the over. RCB 150/4

Kohli hits 37-ball fifty with the help of five fours and a six

OVER 17.three: OUT! Russell dismisses Mandeep to pick his third. RCB 140/4

OVER 17: Mandeep hits two sixes off Narine. RCB 133/three

Four overs to head. Can RCB change gears from here?

OVER 16: Kohli hits two fours off young Mavi. RCB 118/three

OVER 15: Nine runs from the over. RCB 109/three

Strategic Time out

100 comes up for RCB for the lack of 3 wickets in 14 overs

OVER 13: Kuldeep is on a roll, offers handiest 3 runs. RCB 91/three

OVER 12: Kohli selections up a four off Russell. RCB 88/three

OVER 11: Fine over by Kuldeep. Four runs from it. RCB 79/three

OVER nine.6: OUT! Russell moves once more to clean up Manan Vohra. RCB 75/three

OVER nine.6: Wide ball from Russell

OVER nine.5: OUT! Russell eliminates McCullum. RCB 74/2

OVER 8.1: OUT! Kuldeep moves to push aside de Kock. RCB 67/1

Strategic Time out

OVER 8: Two fours and a six by McCullum off Chawla. RCB 67/zero

OVER 7: McCullum hits a six off Yadav's final ball. RCB 52/zero

Kuldeep Yadav is into the assault

End of Powerplay! RCB reach 40/zero after six overs

RCB's reasonable Powerplay ranking is 51 for this season and they're certainly missing de Villiers

OVER 5: de Kock hits a four off Narine. RCB 36/zero

OVER 4: Six runs from the over. RCB 29/zero

OVER three: Good over! 14 runs from it. RCB 23/zero

Mitchell Johnson into the assault

OVER 2: Quinton de Kock hits two back-to-back fours off Narine. RCB nine/zero

KKR introduce Narine into the assault

OVER 1: Terrific get started by Piyush Chawla. Just a one run.

TEAM CHANGES

KKR is playing with an unchanged XI whilst four changes for RCB as Tim Southee is available in for AB de Villiers, who is out because of a viral fever, whilst M Ashwin and Manan Vohra exchange Washington Sundar and Pawan Negi respectively. Brendon McCullum is available in for his countrymate Corey Anderson.

TEAMS

Royal Challengers Bangalore (Playing XI): Quinton de Kock(w), Virat Kohli(c), Manan Vohra, Corey Anderson, Mandeep Singh, Colin de Grandhomme, Murugan Ashwin, Tim Southee, Umesh Yadav, Mohammed Siraj, Yuzvendra Chahal

Kolkata Knight Riders (Playing XI): Chris Lynn, Sunil Narine, Robin Uthappa, Nitish Rana, Dinesh Karthik(w/c), Shubman Gill, Andre Russell, Shivam Mavi, Piyush Chawla, Mitchell Johnson, Kuldeep Yadav

TOSS: Kolkata Knight Riders win toss, elect to box towards Royal Challengers Bangalore