Matthew Breetzke: "It's a great privilege to make my debut. The head seems fine, but we'll see [for] the next couple of hours. It felt like a really good wicket. Thushara was all over me and Mitch there. Any debut made, there's nerves. To get a game, I was really excited to be honest. Pant has been unreal, to be honest. His captaincy has been brilliant. The boys love him."

9.28pm What really prevented Pant from getting the results all this while? The intensity, aggression and execution had been missing for two months, but as with quality players like him, you know that that one impactful knock isn't too far away. Tonight Pant hammers 118 of his side's 227 runs, when he struggled to score that many runs in 13 innings earlier. Suddenly, it all looked so familiar - there was the perfect hand-eye coordination, the expected tumble in the stance while hitting a boundary, and the usual one-handed six. Join Ekanth, though, to see if all that is enough. Remember, RCB must win today if they are to finish in the top two.

Samad to face the last ball