RCB vs SRH Match Highlights And Report-IPL: How do you describe this kind of game except that it was raining fours and sixes at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium on Monday evening?
Travis Head’s maiden IPL century and Heinrich Klaasen’s blitz of 67 (31) helped SRH break their own record of the highest innings total in the IPL, of 277 vs MI a couple of weeks ago, by piling up 287 this time, against RCB, who finished with 262 runs and showed a good fight with the bat.
SRH slammed 22 sixes in their innings, which is now the record for most sixes by a team in an IPL innings.
With six losses in seven matches, RCB are all but out of the playoff race.
RCB vs SRH Match Highlights And Report-IPL
Faf du Plessis won the toss and elected to bowl first, and the RCB skipper announced some big changes: Siraj and Maxwell were dropped, and in came and in came Lockie Ferguson for his RCB debut, although the Kiwi wouldn’t have wished to play at the Chinnaswamy against a marauding SRH batting unit.
The two left-handed SRH openers, Head and Abhishek Sharma, went bonkers right from the start of their innings. They took 20 runs from the second over of the innings, off Topley, before taking 38 runs in the last two overs of the powerplay. SRH ended the powerplay at 76/0 with Head notching up a 20-ball fifty.
Right after the powerplay, Head smashed two sixes and a four in the 7th over, off Will Jacks. Topley managed to dismiss Abhishek, for 34 (22). In order to continue the momentum, SRH promoted Klaasen to number 3, and he came in the middle in SRH’s 9th over.
Now the proper thumping began from both ends. The pair blasted 57 (26), during which Head raised his century in 39 balls, the fourth-fastest in the IPL. Head was dismissed by Ferguson, having cracked 9 fours and 8 sixes. After Head, Klaasen took over the hitting duties to wallop 67 runs in 31 balls with the help of 7 sixes!
Klaasen got out in the 17th over, but any hopes of RCB’s to restrict SRH to under 260 were dashed by Abdul Samand’s fiery cameo of 37* runs in only 10 balls, while Aiden Markram scored 32* in 17 balls.
SRH finished at 287/3. All six RCB bowlers went at an economy of more than 10; three went at more than 15.
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In the chase, RCB got off to a flier with Virat Kohli and Faf du Plessis unleashing a spate of boundaries. The first five overs went for more than 10 runs each, and RCB ended the powerplay at 79/0.
At that point, though, the hope of a miraculous win burst. Leg-spinner Mayank Markande castled Kohli, who scored 42 (20), and then Will Jacks got run-out at the non-striker’s end in an unlucky way as Unadkat got his hands in the way of a straight drive from Faf and the ball hit the stumps.
By the 10th over, Rajat Patidar and Faf du Plessis, who scored 62 (28), were gone too, and so was RCB’s slim chance. Veteran keeper-batsman Dinesh Karthik waged a lone battle in the second half of RCB’s innings.
Karthik, who is still vying for a spot in India’s T20 World Cup squad, clobbered 5 fours and 7 sixes in his brilliant knock of 83 runs in only 35 balls. Karthik’s innings took RCB to 262, which is still a huge total, and SRH’s margin of victory was only 25 runs, something Pat Cummins would rue, imagining it could have been much bigger if not for Karthik’s efforts.
Score summary: Sunrisers Hyderabad 287/3 in 20 overs (Travis Head 102, Lockie Ferguson 2/52); Royal Challengers Bengaluru 262/7 in 20 overs (Dinesh Karthik 83, Pat Cummins 3/43). SRH defeated RCB by 25 runs.
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