Royal Challengers Bengaluru recorded a dominant 35-run win to halt Sunrisers Hyderabad’s profitable run within the forty first match of the IPL 2024. Defending 206 at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Bengaluru spinners shone early to finish RCB’s six-game shedding run.
Despite a heavy loss, Pat Cummins-led Sunrisers Hyderabad stay within the third place within the factors desk with 5 wins. With two wins in 9 video games, Bengaluru stay in rivalry to safe playoff qualification.
After profitable the toss, Faf du Plessis elected to bat first with the identical taking part in eleven that suffered a 1-run loss in opposition to KKR within the final recreation. Virat Kohli and Rajat Patidar scored good fifties and Cameron Green performed a quickfire cameo to put up a difficult complete of 206/7Â in 20 overs.
Debutant spin all-rounder Swapnil Singh and skilled Karn Sharma produced match-winning spells within the early phases to give RCB management after which Cameron Green picked two wickets for 12 to prohibit Sunrisers Hyderabad to 171/8.
RCB wanted two factors to keep their hopes alive for playoff qualification having received solely as soon as within the first eight matches. They produced a formidable all-round efficiency in opposition to the workforce which is dominating the event with three 250+ totals.
Patidar continued his rejuvenated kind together with his third fifty within the final 4 matches. He took solely 19 balls to attain fifty however Kohli struggled for giant pictures regardless of beginning aggressively. Kohli top-scored with 51 runs off 43 balls to report his fifth fifty-plus rating.
Having posted a report 287 complete within the first leg in opposition to RCB, the hosts misplaced in-form Travis Head within the first over off Will Jacks. Opener Abhishek Sharma stored Sunrisers forward within the recreation by 31 runs off simply 13 balls however was not ready to convert it into an enormous innings.
Swapnil Singh, making his RCB debut, dismissed Aiden Markram and in-form Heinrich Klaasen within the powerplay overs to keep RCB within the dominant place for an enormous win. Hyderabad by no means threatened to make a comeback however averted shedding all wickets with the previous RCB all-rounder Shahbaz Ahmed top-scoring with 40* off 37 balls.
Sunrisers Hyderabad Playing XI: Abhishek Sharma, Aiden Markram, Heinrich Klaasen (wk), Nitish Reddy, Abdul Samad, Shahbaz Ahmed, Pat Cummins (c), Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jaydev Unadkat, Mayank Markande, T Natarajan (substituted by Travis Head).
Royal Challengers Bangalore Playing XI: Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis (c), Rajat Patidar (substituted by Swapnil Singh), Cameron Green, Will Jacks, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Mahipal Lomror, Karn Sharma, Lockie Ferguson, Mohammed Siraj, Yash Dayal.
