{"id":168580,"date":"2026-05-17T08:26:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T13:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=168580"},"modified":"2026-05-17T08:26:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T13:56:29","slug":"pbks-vs-rcb-royal-challengers-bengaluru-seals-playoffs-spot-with-commanding-win-vs-punjab-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=168580","title":{"rendered":"PBKS vs RCB: Royal Challengers Bengaluru seals Playoffs spot with commanding win vs Punjab Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"content-body-70990472\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">Royal Challengers Bengaluru secured its berth in the IPL 2026 Playoffs after a commanding 23-run win over Punjab Kings, which slumped to a sixth consecutive defeat at the HPCA stadium in Dharamshala on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Asked to bat first, RCB posted a daunting total of 222, largely fueled by Venkatesh Iyer\u2019s 73, with supporting acts from Virat Kohli and Devdutt Padikkal.<\/p>\n<p>PBKS never got to stay ahead in the chase after losing three wickets inside the PowerPlay with Bhuvneshwar Kumar running through the top order.<\/p>\n<p class=\"publish-time\" id=\"end-of-article\">Published on May 17, 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/cricket\/ipl\/pbks-vs-rcb-ipl-2026-match-report-punjab-kings-royal-challengers-bengaluru\/article70990472.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Royal Challengers Bengaluru secured its berth in the IPL 2026 Playoffs after a commanding 23-run win over Punjab Kings, which slumped to a sixth consecutive defeat at the HPCA stadium in Dharamshala on Sunday. Asked to bat first, RCB posted a daunting total of 222, largely fueled by Venkatesh Iyer\u2019s 73, with supporting acts from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":168581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/34_RVM_0429.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgnRh4-HR2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/168581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}