AccuWeather predicts some rain in Bengaluru on Friday but that’s in the afternoon. The weather during the day is expected to be 32 degrees in the morning while it’ll be 34 degrees in the afternoon with the weather ‘partly sunny with a thunderstorm in parts of the area.’ The rain threat goes to nil in the evening but it’ll be partly cloudy by the time of the match.

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What happens if the rain washes out the fixture?

In case of a washout, both teams split one point each. This will mean RCB will have 9 points from 7 matches while Punjab Kings will also have 9 from the same number of matches. If the match goes on as scheduled, it’ll still have 60 minutes buffer time before overs are reduced.

A minimum of 5 overs is required to get a result with the cut-off time for this being 10.56 PM with the game needing to be finished by 12.06 AM on Saturday.

Squads:

Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Rajat Patidar (c), Virat Kohli, Yash Dayal, Josh Hazlewood, Phil Salt, Jitesh Sharma (wk), Liam Livingstone, Rasikh Salam, Suyash Sharma, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Swapnil Singh, Tim David, Romario Shepherd, Nuwan Thushara, Manoj Bhandage, Jacob Bethel, Devdutt Padikkal, Swastik Chhikara, Lungi Ngidi, Abhinandan Singh, Mohit Rathee.

Punjab Kings: Shreyas Iyer (c), Priyansh Arya, Prabhsimran Singh (wk), Nehal Wadhera, Shashank Singh, Glenn Maxwell, Marcus Stoinis, Marco Jansen, Yuzvendra Chahal, Arshdeep Singh, Yash Thakur, Suryansh Shedge, Praveen Dubey, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Harpreet Brar, Azmatullah Omarzai, Josh Inglis, Xavier Bartlett, Vishnu Vinod, Aaron Hardie, Kuldeep Sen, Harnoor Singh, Musheer Khan, Pyla Avinash.