RCB beat Kings XI Punjab by 4 wickets to end their 5-match losing streak at their home ground.

Sundar brings the winning runs with a four.

With 5 needed off the last over, it's pressure everywhere.

Mohit is given the last over to bowl.

Short ball and Sundar connects and that is a four down to third. Now just one needed off 5. 

Mohit then bowls a widish ball and Sundar fishes. The umpire refrains from calling it a wide.

1 off 4 balls needed.

Width ball and Sundar just whacks it through covers for a four. Those are the winning runs.

Mandeep is gone here with six needed off 8 deliveries.

RCB lose their fifth wicket.

Sundar is the new man in and he gets off the mark with a single.

Woakes is on strike and that a brilliant ball to end the over. Tye has Woakes fishing and with that dot ball RCB need 5 off the last over. 

Woakes is the new batsman in for De Villiers and he gets off the mark with a single.

Mandeep then plays the ball to deep mid-wwicket and the batsmen run hard for a couple.

Mandeep then played it to the leg side, called for 2, the throw from the deep was good and Mandeep is short of the crease. 

RCB need just 10 off two overs.

Tye comes back in the over.

Short and wide, De Villiers tries to look for that six over point, cuts hard and holes out to the man at deep point.

He goes for 57 off 40. It's a job well done.

Mohit Sharma comes back to bowl and Mandeep takes a single.

De Villiers picks the slower one and sends it over the long-on for a six! 

He gets to his fifty and now puts RCB in a winning position.

De Villiers then plays a couple and then gets a single.

Mandeep then takes a single.

De Villiers safely plays out the yorker to end the over with a single.

Mujeeb comes back into the attack 

Mandeep rocks back and just pulls it to mid-wicket for a four!

De Villiers then takes on the bowler, he just swings his arms and sends the ball over the deep for a six.

He then pulls the ball over deep mid-wicket for a consecutive sixes to possibly turn the game in RCB's favour.

Axar continues and the batsmen here are picking the gaps easily and De Kock brings up the 50 partnership and reverse sweeps the bowler for a four.

De Kock then goes after a big one, gets a top edge but the ball lands in no man's land. 

8 runs come off the over.

Ashwin comes back into the attack and De Kock is treating the bowler with disdain.

He first hits him for a beautiful six over the bowler and follows that up with a four on the leg side. 

12 runs come off the over.

Axar comes back into the attack.

Dot ball first up and second ball, he gets De Kock right on the knee roll. Review taken by Punjab but they have lost it as it was hitting outside off.

De Villiers then cuts it but can't penetrate the in-field.

Next ball, he plays a lovely cover drive for a couple.

Just three come off that 9th over.

Mohit Sharma comes into the attack. 

Short ball to start and De Villiers just pulls it lustily over deep mid-wicket for a lovely six!

De Villiers follows that up with a single. 

Short ball again and De Kock just pulls it past short fine leg for a boundary.

He then scampers through for a single.

Then De Villiera plays a defensive shot for a dot.

De Villiers then just crunches the ball through the cover region, what a shot!

16 runs come off the over. 

Mujeeb continues and De Villiers is happy to just take the singles.

De Kock comes to pitch of the ball and plays it through mid-wicket for a boundary.

He then gets a single to deep mid-wicket.

That ball comes back in, nicely dealt with by De Villiers.

He then gets a single to long-off.

Ashwin comes back into the attack. 

De Kock chips the 2nd ball over mid-wicket for a four.

The batsmen then just rotate the strike.

Four singles and that one boundary in the Ashwin over as the Powerplay overs come to an end.

Ashwin opens the bowling at the other end.

WOW!

Kohli just deftly cuts it past the keeper's gloves to start the over with a four.

He then gets a single.

De Kock then just caresses it through the gap on the off side for a four.

Axar Patel opens the bowling for Punjab and he gets Brendon McCullum off the 2nd ball. McCullum tries to make room and play it above the in-field on the off side but only manages to find the point fielder.

Kohli gets off the mark with a cracking shot through point. Misfield and the ball races through cover point for a boundary.

He then gets a single.

De Kock then just cuts the ball through covers, another mis-field and the ball races to the boundary.10 runs come off the opening over.

RCB bowlers have done well here to dismiss Kings XI Punjab for just 155 within the twenty overs, especially after KL Rahul had gotten the visitors to a brisk start. 

All kudos to Umesh Yadav who started the rot for Punjab after he dismissed Agarwal, Finch and Yuvraj in the 4th over.

That opened the floodgates and despite Rahul and Nair's brief fightback, Punjab could never accelerate like they did early in the innings, losing wickets in clumps.

Captain Ashwin's rearguard took their score past the 150-mark but that is not going to be enough against a strong RCB batting line-up.

Woakes continues and starts with a wide.

44 come off the last 5 overs.

Chahal continues and Nair sweeps it to deep square leg for a couple.

He then gets a single to deep square leg.

Rahul then tries the helicopter shot and gets couple to backward point.

After a single to Rahul, Nair reverse sweeps and gets a boundary down to third man.

Last ball is a dot and 10 runs come off that over.

Washington Sundar comes into the attack and Nair starts with a single.

Rahul then gets a single to mid-icket.

Nair then comes down the track but De Villiers gets a good slide in at the deep mid-wicket boundary to keep it down to only a single.

Just five runs come off the over.

Chahal continues and both batsmen are now happy to just keep the scorecard ticking with singles and twos.

After taking four singles, Rahul plays the ball fine and ends the over with a boundary. 8 runs come off the over as the umpire signals strategic timeout.

Woakes brought back into the attack and he starts with a dot.

Rahul then gets a single.

Nair then plays the ramp shot over the slip cordon for a four.

Woakes follows that up with a wide.

Nair then flicks the ball to deep mid-wicket for a couple.

He then gets a single to mid-wicket.

Rahul then flicks his wrist and it's a single to long on.

Mayank Agarwal gets into the action this time, Umesh Yadav the victim now. 

Agarwal gets into position early and just flicks it over square leg for a four.

Agarwal then plays a lovely four down the ground.

He then plays the ball  to deep square for a single.

Dot to end the over and 9 come off the 2nd over.

KL Rahul and Mayank Agarwal open the batting for Kings XI Punjab while Chris Woakes opens the bowling for RCB.

Woakes starts with two dot balls. 

A little width and Rahul slaps the ball over cover for four.

Next ball, a fraction leg side and Rahul flicks it for a six over mid-wicket.

Two balls later, Rahul just plays the ball past fine leg for a boundary.

16 come off the first over and Punjab are off to a flyer!

Virat Kohli's RCB has won the toss and elected to bowl first against Kings XI Punjab in Bengaluru on Friday.

Royal Challengers Bangalore: Virat Kohli (c), AB de Villiers, Sarfaraz Khan, Chris Woakes, Yuzvendra Singh Chahal, Umesh Yadav, Brendon McCullum, Washington Sundar, Navdeep Saini, Quinton de Kock, Mohammed Siraj, Colin de Grandhomme, Corey Anderson, M Ashwin, Parthiv Patel, Moeen Ali, Mandeep Singh, Manan Vohra, Pawan Negi, Tim Southee, Kulwant Khejroliya, Aniket Choudhary, Pavan Deshpande, Anirudha Joshi.

Kings XI Punjab: Ravichandran Ashwin (captain), Yuvraj Singh, Mayank Agarwal, Mayank Dagar, Aaron Finch, Chris Gayle, Manzoor Dar, David Miller, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Karun Nair, Axar Patel, Lokesh Rahul, Marcus Stoinis, Manoj Tiwary, Andrew Tye, Ben Dwarshuis, Ankit Rajpoot, Pardeep Sahu, Mohit Sharma, Barinder Sran, Akshdeep Nath.