In the current IPL 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s six-match winning streak was snapped by to the combined four wickets taken by Indian spin pair Karn Sharma and Swapnil Singh. They won the rummy International Stadium match against Sunrisers Hyderabad on Thursday by a score of 35 runs. While RCB won their second game of the current season, this was SRH’s first loss in five games. They had previously defeated Punjab Kings at home on March 25.
After winning the toss and scoring a par 206 for 7, the Faf du Plessis-led visiting team set a target of 207 runs for Hyderabad’s powerful batting line, which has already destroyed many IPL batting records this season. However, the hosts could manage just 171 for eight.
The Orange Cap-holder, Indian batting superstar Virat Kohli, opened with a plodding 43 balls in a dafabet of 48 runs with Plessis, who was removed after striking 12 balls in a partnership. Nevertheless, Rajat Patidar’s brilliant 20-ball 50 helped Bengaluru attain the high total. In reply, Hyderabad’s openers, Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma, failed to forge a mutually beneficial alliance.
Spinner Will Jacks removed the Australian after he scored just one run in the first over. Sharma hit thirty-one balls from thirteen balls before leaving in the fourth over, leaving Sunrisers at 2-37. Karn and Swapnil took three significant middle-order wickets in the eighth over of the chase, Heinrich Klaasen (7), Nitish Kumar Reddy (13), and Aiden Markram (7). At 5-69, they left Hyderabad.
Even though RCB’s losing skid has ended, they are now tied with Punjab Kings for 10th position with four points, but a lesser net run rate of -0.721 separates them. On the other hand, having amassed ten points from five games, Sunrisers Hyderabad are also able to maintain their third-place position. Teams like the Lucknow Super Giants (10 points) in fourth place and the Chennai Super Kings (8 points) in fifth place, both of whom are in fourth, will surely put pressure on them.
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