Royal Challengers Bangalore beat Sunrisers Hyderabad within the sixty fifth match of IPL 2023 on Thursday. By registering the win, RCB have moved closer towards the Playoffs qualification as they have added 2 factors to their tally and now have another recreation to go. In the match, Bangalore received the toss and opted to bowl, Coming to bat first, SRH gamers registered a rating of 186/5 (20 overs).
Sunrisers innings was powered by Heinrich Klaasen‘s century. In response, RCB batters chased the goal in simply 19.2 overs. Virat Kohli hit an impresssive century to steal the thunder from Heinrich Klaasen’s maiden IPL ton. While Klaasen smashed six sixes and eight fours throughout his knock of 104 runs off 51 balls to information SRH to 186/5 (20 overs) from 28/2 within the fifth over. Kohli (100) had different plans as he and Faf du Plessis (71) helped RCB chase down the goal with their 172-run opening stand, the best partnership of the season.
Following the victory, RCB have now climbed to the fourth place due to their batter run-rate than Mumbai Indians who even have 14 factors. They will need to win their subsequent match towards Gujarat Titans to remain within the competition as Chennai Super Kings and Lucknow Super Giants are at 15 factors with one match to go.
Earlier, Klaasen registered a 76-run partnership with Aiden Markram (18) earlier than including one other 74 off 36 balls with Harry Brook (27 not out) to take SRH to a aggressive whole. Already out of playoff race, SRH as soon as once more had a poor begin with Rahul Tripathi (15) and Abhishek Sharma (11) getting dismissed early.
Sunrisers Hyderabad Playing XI: Abhishek Sharma, Rahul Tripathi, Aiden Markram(c), Heinrich Klaasen(w), Harry Brook, Glenn Phillips, Abdul Samad, Kartik Tyagi, Mayank Dagar, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Nitish Reddy
Royal Challengers Bangalore Playing XI: Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis(c), Glenn Maxwell, Mahipal Lomror, Anuj Rawat(w), Shahbaz Ahmed, Michael Bracewell, Wayne Parnell, Harshal Patel, Karn Sharma, Mohammed Siraj
