Royal Challengers Bangalore forgot to win in IPL. The first victory came a month earlier. After that, there were only defeats in 6 matches in a dismal performance. The team at the bottom of the points table finally saw victory after beating Sunrisers Hyderabad by 35 runs on Thursday.
The decision to bat at the beginning was made by Faf du Plessis. Collected 206 runs for 7 wickets. The two openers Virat Kohli and Faf du Plessis had a great start with the bat. During the power play, skipper du Plessy returned to 25 runs from 12 balls, but later their run rate slowed down. Kohli continued to play on the edge. Rajat Patidar pulled the team after him with devastating batting after Will Jacks returned for 6 runs. While Kohli played at a slower pace as a partner, it was Patidar’s bat that saw the scores go up quickly. In the end, he returned to fifty in 20 balls with 2 fours and 5 sixes. After his return, Virat is also out. But before returning, he played an innings of 51 runs off 43 balls. It had 4 fours and 1 six. After that, even though one end was shaky, Bangalore crossed two hundred runs with Cameron Green’s stormy batting of 37 runs from 20 balls. Jaydev Unadkat took 3 wickets for 30 runs for Hyderabad. T Natarajan also took two for 39 runs.
Against a huge scoreboard, Hyderabad’s top order lacked the spark it needed to bat. Abhishek Sharma signaled a great start with a devastating batting 31 off 13 balls but departed on that score. There was no response from the companions. Karn Sharma and Swapneel Singh gave Hyderabad away from the match with three important wickets in the middle order. Picked up the wickets of Aiden Markram (7), Nitish Kumar (13) and Heinrich Klaasen (7). They lost 5 wickets for 69 runs and fell into danger.
Only Shahbaz Ahmed tried to lead the team in a responsible innings of 40 runs from 37 balls. In the end, captain Pat Cummins gave a stormy batting of 31 runs off 15 balls, but before that they were knocked out. In the end, Hyderabad stopped at 171 after losing 8 wickets.
Two spinners Swapnil Singh, Karn Sharma contributed to Bengaluru’s win. They took four important wickets. Another pacer Cameron Green also took two wickets.
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