Royal Challengers Bengaluru recorded a dominant 35-run win to halt Sunrisers Hyderabad’s successful run within the forty first match of the IPL 2024. Defending 206 at Rajiv Gandhi Worldwide Stadium, Bengaluru spinners shone early to finish RCB’s six-game dropping run.
Regardless of 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 competition to safe playoff qualification.
After successful the toss, Faf du Plessis elected to bat first with the identical enjoying 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 Inexperienced performed a quickfire cameo to publish a difficult whole of 206/7 in 20 overs.
Debutant spin all-rounder Swapnil Singh and skilled Karn Sharma produced match-winning spells within the early phases to offer RCB management after which Cameron Inexperienced picked two wickets for 12 to limit Sunrisers Hyderabad to 171/8.
RCB wanted two factors to maintain their hopes alive for playoff qualification having received solely as soon as within the first eight matches. They produced a powerful all-round efficiency in opposition to the group which is dominating the event with three 250+ totals.
Patidar continued his rejuvenated type along with his third fifty within the final 4 matches. He took solely 19 balls to succeed in fifty however Kohli struggled for large pictures regardless of beginning aggressively. Kohli top-scored with 51 runs off 43 balls to document his fifth fifty-plus rating.
Having posted a document 287 whole 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 in a position 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 maintain RCB within the dominant place for an enormous win. Hyderabad by no means threatened to make a comeback however prevented dropping all wickets with the previous RCB all-rounder Shahbaz Ahmed top-scoring with 40* off 37 balls.
Sunrisers Hyderabad Enjoying 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 Enjoying XI: Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis (c), Rajat Patidar (substituted by Swapnil Singh), Cameron Inexperienced, Will Jacks, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Mahipal Lomror, Karn Sharma, Lockie Ferguson, Mohammed Siraj, Yash Dayal.
