Sunrisers Hyderabad beat Royal Challengers Bangalore by 5 wickets

In the 52nd match of the 13th season of IPL, Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) by 5 wickets. This is Sunrisers sixth win in the season. The team has reached the top-4 of the points table. With this, Hyderabad became the frontrunner of the fourth team of the play-offs. Despite the defeat, Bangalore remains at number two.

On the ground of Sharjah, Bengaluru lost the toss and gave a target of 121 runs while batting first. In response, Hyderabad lost 121 wickets in 14.1 overs, scoring 121 runs.

Riddhiman and Manish started the innings to chase the target Sunrisers did not start well. On 10 runs, the team lost the first wicket as captain David Warner (8). After this, opener Wriddhiman Saha took over the innings by partnering 50 runs for the second wicket with Manish Pandey. Saha scored 39 and Manish scored 26 runs.

Sandeep and Holder took 2-2 wickets

Bengaluru scored 120 runs losing 7 wickets. Josh Philip scored the highest 32 runs off 31 balls. Apart from these, AB de Villiers scored 24 and Washington Sundar scored 21 runs. Sandeep Sharma and Jason Holder took 2–2 wickets each for Hyderabad. Apart from these, T Natarajan, Shahbaz Nadeem and Rashid Khan took 1-1 wickets.

Bengaluru's poor start RCB had a very poor start. The team had lost 2 wickets for 28 runs. Both the successes came to fast bowler Sandeep Sharma. He bowled opener Devdutt Padikkal (5). After this Virat Kohli (7) was caught out by Kane Williamson. After this, Josh Philip scored 32 runs and AB de Villiers scored 24 runs. There was a 43-run partnership for the third wicket between the two.

Philip was caught by Rashid Khan at the hands of Manish Pandey. At the same time, Abhishek took the catch of de Villiers at Shahbaz Nadeem's ball. Washington Sundar (21) was caught by T Natarajan on his own ball and sent to the pavilion.

Sandeep bowls out Kohli for a record 7th time

Sandeep Sharma sent Virat Kohli for a record 7th time in the IPL. With this, he also equaled the record of dismissing a batsman in the league the most times. Earlier, Zaheer Khan has also dismissed Mahendra Singh Dhoni 7 times. Kohli scored 68 runs in 12 innings against Sandeep and was dismissed 7 times.

Two changes in the playing eleven of RCB

Captain David Warner made a change in the playing XI. Abhishek Sharma replaced Vijay Shankar. There were two changes in the Bangalore team. Navdeep Saini and Isuru Udana return. Dale Steyn and Shivam Dubey were ruled out.

The foreign players in both teams got a chance to play in Bengaluru's playing XI with foreign players like Josh Phillip, AB de Villiers, Chris Morris and Isuru Udana. The Hyderabad team consists of captain David Warner including Kane Williamson, Jason Holder and Rashid Khan.