SRH vs RCB IPL 2024: Sunrisers Hyderabad defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore by 25 runs. Sunrisers Hyderabad scored 287 runs while batting first, which is the highest score in the history of IPL. On the other hand, RCB had a great start while chasing the target, the team had scored 79 runs in the powerplay. Virat Kohli played a stormy innings of 42 runs in 20 balls, while captain Faf du Plessis’s bat also spewed fire. Du Plessis scored 62 runs in a 28-ball innings equipped with 7 fours and 4 sixes. Glenn Maxwell and Cameron Green were not playing in this match, so the burden of lower order batting fell on Dinesh Karthik and young batsmen. Dinesh Karthik also played a stormy innings of 83 runs in 34 balls, but he could not make RCB win.
After 15 overs, RCB had scored 187 runs for the loss of 6 wickets and the team still needed 101 runs in the last 30 balls. 29 runs came in the next 2 overs, but the team still needed 72 runs in 18 balls. The situation was such that Bangalore needed a four on every ball to win. Although the team needed 58 runs to win in the last 2 overs, Dinesh Karthik was not ready to back down. Karthik did score 14 runs in the 19th over, but in the same over he was out after scoring 83 runs. As soon as Karthik was out, SRH’s victory was almost certain. Hyderabad won this match by 25 runs. Captain Pat Cummins took 3 wickets for SRH, Mayank Markande took 2 and T Natarajan also took one wicket.
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549 runs scored in the match
So far in the history of IPL, there has been only one match in which both the teams scored more than 530 runs in total. A total of 523 runs were scored in the SRH vs MI match in IPL 2024. Now the RCB vs MI match has surpassed the record of most runs in a match. A total of 549 runs have been scored in this match between Hyderabad and Bangalore. SRH vs RCB has also surpassed the record of most sixes hit in a single match. In this match, Hyderabad hit 22 sixes and RCB batsmen hit 16 sixes. A total of 38 sixes were hit in the match.
Dinesh Karthik’s fast innings was in vain
Dinesh Karthik batted aggressively and scored a brilliant fifty for the team in trouble. He completed fifty runs after facing 23 balls by hitting 4 fours and as many sixes. He took the match till the end by constantly hitting big shots for the team. He was out after scoring 83 runs in 35 balls and the team could only reach 262 runs for 6 wickets.
Virat and Du Plessis’s fast start
Chasing the huge target of 288 runs, RCB’s captain Faf du Plessis along with Virat Kohli gave the team a fast start. Both of them together scored 80 runs in just 6 overs. Virat got out after scoring 42 runs in 20 balls while Faf scored 62 runs in 28 balls and lost his wicket. Due to this fast start, the team remained consistent in the match.
Storm of Travis Head, Klaasen and Samad
Sunrisers Hyderabad made the highest score in the history of the tournament against Royal Challengers Bangalore. The amazing thing is that the team broke the record of 277 runs made in the same season and set a record of 287 runs. Opener Travis Head gave the team a quick start by playing a stormy innings of 102 runs by hitting 8 sixes and 9 fours.
After this, Enrique Klaasen came on the field and scored 67 runs in 31 balls to take the score past 200 runs. Finally, Abdul Samad scored 37 runs in 10 balls to take the score to 287 runs and created history. Apart from this, Adam Markram scored an unbeaten 32 runs in 17 balls while Abhishek Sharma scored 34 runs.
