Royal Challengers Bangalore beat Sunrisers Hyderabad by 67 runs in Sunday's afternoon IPL 2022 match.
RCB: 192/3 in 20 overs (Faf du Plessis 73 not out, Rajat Patidar 48; Jagadeesha Suchith 2/30, Kartik Tyagi 1/42)
Sunrisers Hyderabad: 125 all out in 19.2 overs (Rahul Tripathi 58, Aiden Markram 21; Wanindu Hasaranga 5/18, Josh Hazlewood 2/17)
Royal Challengers Bangalore have successfully exacted revenge from Sunrisers Hyderabad by defeating them by 67 runs in Match 54 of IPL 2022 on Sunday.
The last time the teams had met in this season of the IPL, RCB had been bowled out for 68 by SRH.
This afternoon though, Faf's team elected to bat first and posted a mammoth 192/3. Virat Kohli opened but got out for a golden duck, however his opening partner Faf du Plessis carried his bat and remained unbeaten on 73. Dinesh Karthik's final flourish added 30 runs off 8 deliveries as RCB set SRH a stiff target.
Hyderabad's batting order wilted under scoreboard pressure, crashing to 125 all out in 19.2 overs. Barring Rahul Tripathi's incredible 58 and some big hits from Aiden Markram and Nicholas Pooran, Hyderabad were comprehensively outclassed by Bangalore in their fourth straight defeat of the tournament. Wanindu Hasarange was the star bowler for RCB, finishing with 5/18.
Bangalore's innings had an inauspicious start as Virat Kohli flicked a full ball straight to short mid-wicket off left-arm spinner Jagadeesha Suchith. It was also Kohli's second golden duck against Hyderabad and third of this season.
Du Plessis and Rajat Patidar took care of scoring in power-play after Kohli's fall with boundaries coming consistently. The duo took a liking to the extra pace of left-arm seamer Kartik Tyagi, hitting him for two fours and a six in the final over of power-play. Patidar was the main aggressor, smacking Suchith for a six over long-off and stood tall to punch Umran Malik through extra cover for four.
Du Plessis caught up with Patidar, hammering Malik through mid-off for four and earning a reprieve on the very next ball when Rahul Tripathi couldn't catch his pull and conceded a boundary. He ended the over with a pulled six over long-on to take 20 off Malik's first over.
With Tyagi and Malik going for plenty in their opening overs, Hyderabad had to turn to the sixth bowling option in Abhishek Sharma's left-arm spin. But that didn't stop du Plessis and Patidar from bringing the century of the partnership apart from the Bangalore skipper reaching his fifty with a four through extra cover off Tyagi.
The 105-run off 73 balls between Patidar and du Plessis ended when Suchith forced the former to hole out to deep mid-wicket. But there was no respite for Hyderabad as Glenn Maxwell began with a bang, bringing out the switch hit to whack Suchith for a huge six over cover. Maxwell and du Plessis constantly found boundaries in their stand of 54 off 37 balls before Tyagi took out the former in the 19th over.
But Dinesh Karthik spoiled Tyagi's final over with a six slogged over deep mid-wicket. He then proceeded to bring his A-game to the fore in finishing the innings by smacking Farooqui for three sixes -- over deep square leg, long-on and deep mid-wicket -- before thumping a four straight through long-on to give Hyderabad a daunting target of 193.
Hyderabad's chase faltered at the very start with both openers, Abhishek Sharma and Kane Williamson getting out for nought within the first five balls. While Williamson was run-out by a direct hit from Shahbaz Ahmed with his bat on the line, Sharma was castled by a slider from Maxwell, rattling his off-stump.
Markram and Tripathi joined forces for a fifty-run partnership off 45 balls, hitting six boundaries between themselves before the former holed out to deep mid-wicket off Hasaranga.
Tripathi continued to snatch fours with some glorious shots and found company in Pooran smashing some boundaries. But Hasaranga came back to break the 38-run promising stand, taking out Pooran with a googly, taking an outer edge on an attempted slog to third man.
Tripathi brought up his fifty in style with a superb inside-out lofted six over extra cover off Mohammed Siraj and earned a reprieve when Hasaranga put down a sitter at deep backward point.
But the leg-spinner came back to have Jagadeesha Suchith stumped and when Tripathi pulled straight to deep square leg off Josh Hazlewood, the result was a foregone conclusion. Hazlewood, Hasaranga and Harshal Patel took out the remaining batters to register a thumping win for Bangalore.
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